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

Reshaping the Local Government Landscape

Business & Finance, Management & Leadership, Leadership, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: J.B. Carr, Richard C. Feiock ISBN: 9781317474463
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: July 8, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: J.B. Carr, Richard C. Feiock
ISBN: 9781317474463
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: July 8, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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