City And County Functional Consolidation

Author : J.B. Carr,Richard C. Feiock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317474470

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City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape by J.B. Carr,Richard C. Feiock Pdf

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 : Suzanne M. Leland,Kurt Thurmaier
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781589016224

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City–County Consolidation by Suzanne M. Leland,Kurt Thurmaier Pdf

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 : California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Local government
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062999656

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City and County Functional Consolidation by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County Government Pdf

Author : James J. Feeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Municipal powers and services beyond corporate limits
ISBN : LCCN:77031432

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Functional Consolidation in Municipal Government by James J. Feeney Pdf

Author : J.B. Carr,Richard C. Feiock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317474463

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City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape by J.B. Carr,Richard C. Feiock Pdf

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 : David K. Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136330049

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Governing Metropolitan Areas by David K. Hamilton Pdf

Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Yet there remains scant attention in textbooks to the issues that arise in trying to address metropolitan governance. Governing Metropolitan Areas describes and analyzes structure to understand the how and why of regionalism in our global age. The book covers governmental institutions and their evolution to governance, but with a continual focus on institutions. David Hamilton provides the necessary comprehensive, in-depth description and analysis of how metropolitan areas and governments within metropolitan areas developed, efforts to restructure and combine local governments, and governance within the polycentric urban region. This second edition is a major revision to update the scholarship and current thinking on regional governance. While the text still provides background on the historical development and growth of urban areas and governments' efforts to accommodate the growth of metropolitan areas, this edition also focuses on current efforts to provide governance through cooperative and collaborative solutions. There is also now extended treatment of how regional governance outside the United States has evolved and how other countries are approaching regional governance.

Author : Donald Phares
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317469575

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Governing Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century by Donald Phares Pdf

While government provides the structure of public leadership, governance is the art of public leadership. This timely book examines current trends in metropolitan governance issues. It analyzes specific cases from thirteen major metropolitan regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, all woven together by an overall framework established in the first three chapters. The distinguished contributors address such governance issues as city-county consolidation, local-federal coordination, annexation and special districting, and private contracting, with special attention to lessons learned from both successes and failures. As urban governance innovations have clearly outpaced urban government structures in recent years, the topics covered here are especially relevant.

Author : California. Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : California
ISBN : UCSD:31822027457878

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Journal of the Assembly, Legislature of the State of California by California. Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Suzanne M. Leland,Kurt Thurmaier
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0765632888

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Case Studies of City-County Consolidation by Suzanne M. Leland,Kurt Thurmaier Pdf

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 : Detroit Public Library. Municipal Reference Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Local government
ISBN : UIUC:30112069013503

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Functional Consolidation of Services in City-county Government by Detroit Public Library. Municipal Reference Library Pdf

Author : California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Local government
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062999649

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Functional Consolidation of Local Government by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County Government Pdf

Author : California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County Government. Subcommittee on Functional Consolidation of Local Governments
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Local government
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060654469

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Transcript of Proceedings by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County Government. Subcommittee on Functional Consolidation of Local Governments Pdf

Author : Winston W. Crouch,Beatrice Dinerman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520311640

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Southern California Metropolis by Winston W. Crouch,Beatrice Dinerman Pdf

The concept of the metropolitan area, as best exemplified by Los Angeles, has highlighted two contradictory characteristics of the current urban scene: the dispersion of political power among a number of centers, and the presence of issues and problems whose impact transcends the jurisdiction of any one local government. In this book the author have focused their attention of the process by which organized groups have sought to identify public issues and to reach decision on them within one of the most rapidly developing and most complex metropolitan areas of the United States: Los Angeles. Beginning with a discussion of the setting and framework of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the authors attempt to clarify the nature of the legal, political, social, and economic forces tha have shaped the present system. The second part of this work is concerned with the contenders for leadership within the area: the central city, the urban county, and the suburbs. On the basis of the collected information, the authors next pose the hypothesis that democratic ideology and group interests have combined to produce competing power centers from which groups operate while at the same time lacking sufficient resources to dominate decision making. In the final section of a number of possible alternatives that might produce decision on area-wide issues are examined, and suggestions for bringing together the various political groupings are given. Research for this work was carried out under a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Author : United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Local government
ISBN : UCBK:C057991837

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Substate Regionalism and the Federal System by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Local government
ISBN : IND:30000096929504

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The Challenge of Local Governmental Reorganization by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Pdf