RICHMAN, Roger <br/><br/>
Mediation in disputes between municipal governments 

 - New York :  Marcel Dekker,  1988 
<br/><br/> Emerging forms of intergovernmental management include roles for neutrals in a range of problem solving and conflict management situations. Third party intergovernmental mediation has been used to settle adversarial municipal boundary disputes in Virginia since 1980. Settlements fashioned through mediated negotiations are responsive to local officialst concerns. This paper reports on this innovation