03142nam 2200577Ia 450 991081940310332120200520144314.01-58901-622-X(CKB)2670000000040057(EBL)547780(OCoLC)654443583(SSID)ssj0000414117(PQKBManifestationID)11313103(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414117(PQKBWorkID)10385130(PQKB)10407054(MdBmJHUP)muse3295(Au-PeEL)EBL547780(CaPaEBR)ebr10399508(MiAaPQ)EBC547780(EXLCZ)99267000000004005720090828d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCity-county consolidation promises made, promises kept? /Suzanne M. Leland and Kurt Thurmaier, editors1st ed.Washington D.C. Georgetown University Press20101 online resource (322 pages) illustrations, mapsAmerican governance and public policy series1-58901-628-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexAlthough 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 consolidationAmerican governance and public policy.Metropolitan governmentUnited StatesLocal governmentUnited StatesMetropolitan governmentLocal government320.8/590973Leland Suzanne M.1971-1710600Thurmaier Kurt M.1957-1702548MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819403103321City-county consolidation4101370UNINA