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200 00$aCity-county consolidation$b[electronic resource] $epromises made, promises kept? /$fSuzanne M. Leland and Kurt Thurmaier, editors
210   $aWashington D.C. $cGeorgetown University Press$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (334 p.)
225 1 $aAmerican governance and public policy series
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-58901-628-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCity-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
327   $aChapter 10: Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Service Delivery in Local GovernmentChapter 11: Promises Made, Promises Kept; Contributors; Index
330   $aAlthough a frequently discussed reform, campaigns to merge a major municipality and county to form a unified government fail to win voter approval eighty per cent of the time. One cause for the low success rate may be that little systematic analysis of consolidated governments has been done. In Cityu?County Consolidation, Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier compare nine cityu?county consolidationsu?incorporating data from 10 years before and after each consolidationu?to similar cities and counties that did not consolidate. Their groundbreaking study offers valuable insight into whether consolidation
410  0$aAmerican governance and public policy.
606   $aMetropolitan government$zUnited States
606   $aLocal government$zUnited States
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aMetropolitan government
615  0$aLocal government
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701   $aLeland$b Suzanne M.$f1971-$0974721
701   $aThurmaier$b Kurt M.$f1957-$0974722
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