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

• Pubblicazione: Washington D.C., : Georgetown University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.8/590973
• Soggetto topico: Metropolitan government - United States; Local government - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LelandSuzanne M. <1971-> ThurmaierKurt M. <1957->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: City-county consolidation
• ISBN: 1-58901-622-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460216903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American governance and public policy.