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Case Studies of City-County Consolidation: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
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eBook - ePub
Case Studies of City-County Consolidation: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
About this book
Facing cutbacks in federal and state assistance and a new wave of taxpayer revolts, local governments have renewed interest in local government consolidation as a way of achieving efficiencies of scale in response to citizen demands for services. Yet the vast majority of consolidation efforts fail, either during the process of drafting a charter or once they reach the ballot - only five have passed since 1990; only thirty-two have been successfully implemented since the first, when the city of New Orleans merged with Orleans Parish in 1805. What accounts for the high failure rate and what factors led to successful consolidations? This volume presents thirteen comparable case studies of consolidation campaigns and distills the findings.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Jacksonville/Duval County, Florida Alternative Explanations for the Adoption of City-County Consolidation in Jacksonville/Duval, Florida
- 3. Columbus/Muscogee County, Georgia Good-bye, Columbus
- 4. Tallahassee/Leon County, Florida Tallahassee/Leon Consolidation Referenda
- 5. Sacramento/Sacramento County, California Consolidation, West-Coast Style: Sacramento, California
- 6. Athens/Clarke County, Georgia “The Better Way”: The Unification of Athens and Clarke, Georgia
- 7. Lafayette/Lafayette Parish, Louisiana City-Parish Consolidated Government: Lafayette Parish and the City of Lafayette, Louisiana
- 8. Branch/North Branch, Minnesota Citizen-Led Politics and City-City Consolidation: The Case of North Branch, Minnesota
- 9. Des Moines/Polk County, Iowa A Consolidation Attempt Without Power Deflation
- 10. Augusta/Richmond County, Georgia Financial Crisis, Racial Accommodation, and the Consolidation of Augusta and Richmond, Georgia
- 11. Wilmington/New Hanover County, North Carolina City-County Consolidation for Wilmington and New Hanover, North Carolina
- 12. Knoxville/Knox County, Tennessee A Predictable Failure: The Knoxville/Knox Experience, 1996
- 13. Kansas City/Wyandotte County, Kansas Reforming Politics Through Reorganization: Consolidation in Wyandotte/Kansas City, Kansas
- 14. Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky Merger in Louisville/Jefferson
- 15. Conclusions
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Index
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