Too Large, Maybe?

A Larger Concept of Community, by Jefferson B. Fordham. 117 pp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press $3.00

The process of government in these large days is no doubt more complex than ever before and, in America at least, more flexible, more distributed in its initiatives, more diffused in authority. Dean Fordham confronts this vast fluidity and complexity of modern government with the question: “What has happened to the traditional village, city, county, state, nation?” They are still with us, he replies, but warped and dislocated by modern stresses. Among them interstitial groups have grown up, namely, the metropolis or supralocal group, trans-state or regional group, the trans-national or international group. These too have become governmental units. The book reports and sometimes evaluates the diverse contrivances, the great flux of fluid experiment, in this effort to adjust governmental process to modern conditions.

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A Larger Concept of Community, by Jefferson B. Fordham. 117 pp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press $3.00

The process of government in these large days is no doubt more complex than ever before and, in America at least, more flexible, more distributed in its initiatives, more diffused in authority. Dean Fordham confronts this vast fluidity and complexity of modern government with the question: “What has happened to the traditional village, city, county, state, nation?” They are still with us, he replies, but warped and dislocated by modern stresses. Among them interstitial groups have grown up, namely, the metropolis or supralocal group, trans-state or regional group, the trans-national or international group. These too have become governmental units. The book reports and sometimes evaluates the diverse contrivances, the great flux of fluid experiment, in this effort to adjust governmental process to modern conditions.