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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460216903321

Titolo

City-county consolidation [[electronic resource] ] : promises made, promises kept? / / Suzanne M. Leland and Kurt Thurmaier, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington D.C., : Georgetown University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-58901-622-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

American governance and public policy series

Altri autori (Persone)

LelandSuzanne M. <1971->

ThurmaierKurt M. <1957->

Disciplina

320.8/590973

Soggetti

Metropolitan government - United States

Local government - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 GovernmentChapter 11: Promises Made, Promises Kept; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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