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City-County Consolidation
. Ed(S): Leland, Suzanne M.; Thurmaier, Kurt
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Description for City-County Consolidation
Paperback. Compares nine city-county consolidations to similar cities and counties that did not consolidate. This book offers insight into whether consolidation meets those promises made to voters to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of these governments. Editor(s): Leland, Suzanne M.; Thurmaier, Kurt. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; JPP; JPR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 "City-County Consolidation", Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier compare nine city-county consolidations - incorporating data from 10 years before and after each consolidation - to similar cities and counties that did not consolidate. Their groundbreaking study offers valuable insight into whether consolidation meets those promises made to voters to increase the efficiency ... Read more
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 "City-County Consolidation", Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier compare nine city-county consolidations - incorporating data from 10 years before and after each consolidation - to similar cities and counties that did not consolidate. Their groundbreaking study offers valuable insight into whether consolidation meets those promises made to voters to increase the efficiency ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
American Governance and Public Policy Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589016286
SKU
V9781589016286
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About . Ed(S): Leland, Suzanne M.; Thurmaier, Kurt
Suzanne M. Leland is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Kurt Thurmaier is a professor and director of the Division of Public Administration at Northern Illinois University.
Reviews for City-County Consolidation
This volume, employing a well designed and executed comparative research design, provides the reader with the effect of city-county consolidation in promoting local governmental efficiency and economic development in nine communities. A much needed volume, it is must reading for all scholars of urban government and politics and is an ideal supplementary text to be utilized in graduate courses focusing ... Read more