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City-county consolidation : promises made, promises kept? / Suzanne M. Leland and Kurt Thurmaier, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American governance and public policy.
- American governance and public policy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metropolitan government--United States.
- Metropolitan government.
- Local government--United States.
- Local government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although a frequently discussed reform, campaigns to merge a major municipality and county to form a unified government fail to win voter approval eighty per cent of the time. One cause for the low success rate may be that little systematic analysis of consolidated governments has been done. In CityûCounty Consolidation, Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier compare nine cityûcounty consolidationsùincorporating data from 10 years before and after each consolidationùto similar cities and counties that did not consolidate. Their groundbreaking study offers valuable insight into whether consolidation
- Contents:
- City-County Consolidation; Chapter 1: A Research Design for Evaluating Consolidation Performance; Chapter 2: An Assessment of the City-County Consolidation of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee; Chapter 3: Does Consolidation Make a Difference?; Chapter 4: What Difference Does City-County Consolidation Make?; Chapter 5: City-County Consolidation; Chapter 6: "The Urge to Merge"; Chapter 7: From Company Town to Consolidated Government; Chapter 8: The Case of Lynchburg and Moore County, Tennessee, Consolidation; Chapter 9: Unification Promises and Outcomes; Chapter 10: Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Service Delivery in Local Government; Chapter 11: Promises Made, Promises Kept; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-58901-622-X
- OCLC:
- 654443583
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