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Author : William E. Lyons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608021256
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (212 download)
Download or read book The Politics of City-County Merger written by William E. Lyons and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. E. Lyons
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813194717
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Politics of City-County Merger written by W. E. Lyons and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although city-county consolidation has been urged for years as a solution for many urban problems, relatively few communities have come to the point of offering such an option to the voters and in most of the communities that have done so, the voters have rejected the idea. In 1972 the voters of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky, approved consolidation by a better than two-to- one margin. W. E. Lyons examines this victory for consolidation, comparing the Lexington setting with other places where merger has been attempted. For the first time in the literature, the details of actually drafting a consolidated city-county charter are described. Lyons shows that if either the city or the county government is hostile, the resulting problems are sufficient to stymie the whole undertaking. Even under the most favorable of conditions it is difficult for a commission of thirty citizens to develop the skills and maintain the patience and spirit of compromise necessary to produce a workable charter, acceptable to all members. This examination of a successful consolidation fight includes the results of several surveys of Lexington voters before the referendum and an analysis of the election results. Lyons's description of the campaign strategies used and the reasons for their selection will be especially valuable to leaders considering consolidation in their own communities.
Author : Suzanne M. Leland
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765632883
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Case Studies of City-County Consolidation written by Suzanne M. Leland and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2004-07-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : J.B. Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317474473
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape written by J.B. Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City-country consolidation builds upon the Progressive tradition of favoring structural reform of local governments. This volume looks at some important issues confronting contemporary efforts to consolidate governments and develops a theoretical approach to understanding both the motivations for pursuing consolidation and the way the rules guiding the process shape the outcome. Individual chapters consider the push for city-county consolidation and the current context in which such decisions are debated, along with several alternatives to city-county consolidation. The transaction costs of city-county consolidation are compared against the costs of municipal annexation, inter-local agreements, and the use of special district governments to achieve the desired consolidation of services. The final chapters compare competing perspectives for and against consolidation and put together some of the pieces of an explanatory theory of local government consolidation.
Author : Keon S. Chi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Politics of City-County Consolidation written by Keon S. Chi and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 7, 1972 the voters of the City of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky overwhelmingly approved a comprehensive consolidation plan and the merged "Urban County Government" was officially launched January 1, 1974 to become the state's first and the nation's twelfth successful consolidation of city and county governments. The purpose of the research reported in this article is to offer some plausible explanations, based on document data, newspaper sources, personal observation and interviews, to the frequently-cited question, why consolidation was an acceptable alternative. The following are some of the findings of this study. (1) The Lexington experience may be viewed as a typical city-county consolidation in that it occurred in a medium-sized Southern metropolis and it took place under threat of annexation. (2) The Lexington experience tends to confirm the view that the occurrence of a critical circumstance, in addition to usual favorable conditions, would assure the success of consolidation campaign. What is unique and not found in the previous consolidation attempts, however, is the fact that the merger campaign in Kentucky's second most populous area was initiated and carried out in the midst of the probability that Lexington, then a second class city, would be reclassified as a first class city due to a rapid population increase and the municipal classification system prescribed by the state constitution. (3) While the community environment provided a set of favorable conditions for the consolidation campaign, it seems likely that the success of the Lexington merger might have been attributed to stimuli generated by the previous consolidation experiences, notably those of the Nashville metro, the Indianapolis Unigov and Jacksonville-Duval County. In fact, these areas had been considered as "model cities" in the consolidation campaign. (4) In view of the fact that the campaign was not well-organized, limited, and low-keyed, it can be suggested that the question of how much trust voters have in consolidation campaigners is more critical than how they perceive campaign strategies or governmental change itself. The validity of this conclusion can only be verified by a comprehensive survey of voter attitudes toward the consolidation plan.
Author : Suzanne M. Leland
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 158901622X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book City–County Consolidation written by Suzanne M. Leland and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 City–County Consolidation, Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier compare nine city–county consolidations—incorporating data from 10 years before and after each consolidation—to similar cities and counties that did not consolidate. Their groundbreaking study offers valuable insight into whether consolidation meets those promises made to voters to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of these governments. The book will appeal to those with an interest in urban affairs, economic development, local government management, general public administration, and scholars of policy, political science, sociology, and geography.
Author : Alva W. Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book City-county Consolidation written by Alva W. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Graham Temple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Merger Politics; Local Government Consolidation in Tidewater Virginia written by David Graham Temple and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Humphrey Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (177 download)
Download or read book City-county Merger: a Study of Political Elite Support written by Ralph Humphrey Walker and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Danny W. Durning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Impacts of City-county Government Consolidation written by Danny W. Durning and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Detroit Public Library. Municipal Reference Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Functional Consolidation of Services in City-county Government written by Detroit Public Library. Municipal Reference Library and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Lyons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The Politics of City-Country Merger written by William E. Lyons and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rae W. Archibald
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 083304463X
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Government Consolidation and Economic Development in Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh written by Rae W. Archibald and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report seeks to contribute to understanding the effect of consolidation on future economic development, which is especially critical as Pittsburgh and Allegheny County consider again how their two governments might act to better meet the needs of the region."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Suzanne M. Leland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Case Studies of City-county Consolidation written by Suzanne M. Leland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Substate Regionalism and the Federal System: The challenge of local governmental reorganization written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Interim Committee on City-County Consolidation in Multnomah County
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Report of the Interim Committee on City-County Consolidation in Multnomah County written by Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Interim Committee on City-County Consolidation in Multnomah County and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Citizens League (Minneapolis, Minn.). County Government Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Knitting Local Government Together written by Citizens League (Minneapolis, Minn.). County Government Committee and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
