Author: Detroit Public Library. Municipal Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Functional Consolidation of Services in City-county Government
Author: Detroit Public Library. Municipal Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
City and County Functional Consolidation
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County GovernmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Case Studies of City-County Consolidation
Author: Suzanne M. LelandPublisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765632883
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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.
Transcript of Proceedings
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County Government. Subcommittee on Functional Consolidation of Local GovernmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : County government
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
City–County Consolidation
Author: Suzanne M. LelandPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 158901622X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
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.
Transcript of Proceedings
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County Government. Subcommittee on Functional Consolidation of Local GovernmentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Functional Consolidation of Local Government
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County GovernmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
Author: J.B. CarrPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317474473
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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.
Municipal Shared Services and Consolidation
Author: Alexander HendersonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317519949
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Municipal Shared Services and Consolidation provides a comprehensive and clear review of the theories and practices of structuring and managing complex local government services. Intended for both students and practitioners, this volume in the Public Solutions Handbook Series addresses concepts and processes of shaping collaborative arrangements in public service with goals of effectiveness and efficiency in mind. The Handbook begins with a review of theories of shared services and consolidation, highlighting conceptual foundations, practical barriers, and cultural considerations related to these efforts. Specific, practical advice follows, highlighting the processes of creating, implementing, and managing shared services and consolidation agreements. Municipal Shared Services and Consolidation is exceptionally well written and is amplified by examples, cases, illustrations, and a comprehensive bibliography.
City-county Consolidation and Its Alternatives
Author: Jered B. CarrPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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.