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City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives : Reshaping the Local Government Landscape.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317474463
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government LandscapeLOC classification:
  • JS408.C55 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Political Consolidation and Progressive Reform -- 1. Perspectives on City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives -- 2. Consolidation as a Local Government Reform -- 3. Do Consolidation Entrepreneurs Make a Deal with the Devil? -- Part II: Political Consolidation and Its Alternatives -- 4. Issues of Scale and Transaction Costs in City-County Consolidation -- 5. Annexation as a Form of Consolidation -- 6. Interlocal Agreements as an Alternative to Consolidation -- 7. Special Districts -- 8. Revolutionary Local Constitutional Change -- Part III: The Politics of City-County Consolidation -- 9. The Politics of City-County Consolidation -- 10. Local Government Amalgamation from the Top Down -- 11. Making the Case for (and Against) City-County Consolidation -- 12. Institutional Choice, Collective Action, and Governance -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.
Summary: This volume looks at some issues confronting 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Political Consolidation and Progressive Reform -- 1. Perspectives on City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives -- 2. Consolidation as a Local Government Reform -- 3. Do Consolidation Entrepreneurs Make a Deal with the Devil? -- Part II: Political Consolidation and Its Alternatives -- 4. Issues of Scale and Transaction Costs in City-County Consolidation -- 5. Annexation as a Form of Consolidation -- 6. Interlocal Agreements as an Alternative to Consolidation -- 7. Special Districts -- 8. Revolutionary Local Constitutional Change -- Part III: The Politics of City-County Consolidation -- 9. The Politics of City-County Consolidation -- 10. Local Government Amalgamation from the Top Down -- 11. Making the Case for (and Against) City-County Consolidation -- 12. Institutional Choice, Collective Action, and Governance -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

This volume looks at some issues confronting 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.

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