Final Recommendations for the Consolidation of the Governments of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas
Author: Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas Consolidation Study Commission
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 10
ISBN-13:
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Final Plan for Consolidation of the Governments of Topeka, Kansas, and Shawnee County, Kansas
Author: Consolidation Commission of Topeka, Kansas and Shawnee County
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCity-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
Author: J.B. Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-08
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1317474465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCity-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.
City–County Consolidation
Author: Suzanne M. Leland
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 158901622X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough 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.
Case Studies of City-County Consolidation
Author: Suzanne M. Leland
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2004-07-19
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780765632883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFacing 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.
The Adapted City
Author: H George Frederickson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1315290154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected Contents: 1. Introduction2. Theories of Institutional Dynamics3. Political and Administrative Cities4. The Evolution of Political Cities5. The Evolution of Administrative Cities6. The Evolution of the Model City Charter7. The Discovery of Adapted Cities8. Probing the Complexities of Adapted Cities9. The Conciliated City10. Conclusions
Case Studies in Public Budgeting and Financial Management, Revised and Expanded
Author: W. Bartley Hildreth
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2003-03-11
Total Pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780203911839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA resource for administrators seeking innovative ideas and supporting precedents in formulating policy, this book also provides a useful textbook for public administration and policy students. It employs a wealth of case studies in budgeting and financial management to demonstrate strategies in system implementation, policy formulation, government accounting, auditing, and financial reporting. With contributions from leading experts, it clarifies procedures to solve cutback and downsizing dilemmas using theoretical models, and provides pragmatic approaches to managing financial activities under budgetary strain. It also covers the evolution of a debt management policy.
Adapted City
Author:
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published:
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780765638861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work considers how and why cities change their governing arrangements - and the implications for cities of the future. It provides case studies that show how actual cities have changed and adapted their structure to fit changing times and citizen demands.
Government Consolidation and Economic Development in Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh
Author: Rae W. Archibald
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 0833044915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report concludes that, although evidence is mixed and effects difficult to measure, consolidating the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County could enhance economic development by unifying leadership, improving policy direction and coordination, and sharpening economic-development initiatives. Increased collaboration with the private sector also is important, and combining only two governments still leaves the region highly fragmented.
Governing Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century
Author: Donald Phares
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1317469577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile 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.
