Unification of Local Governments in Kansas City
Author: Kansas City Public Service Institute
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 32
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Author: Kansas City Public Service Institute
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kansas City Public Service Institute (Kansas City, Mo.)
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 32
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 458
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 124
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 594
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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.
Author: James H. Svara
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1589016203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDifferent forms of city government are in widespread use across the United States. The two most common structures are the mayor-council form and the council-manager form. In many large U.S. cities, there have been passionate movements to change the structure of city governments and equally intense efforts to defend an existing structure. Charter change (or preservation) is supported to solve problems such as legislative gridlock, corruption, weak executive leadership, short-range policies, or ineffective delivery of services. Some of these cities changed their form of government through referendum while other cities chose to retain the form in use. More than Mayor or Manager offers in-depth case studies of fourteen large U.S. cities that have considered changing their form of government over the past two decades: St. Petersburg, Florida; Spokane, Washington; Hartford, Connecticut; Richmond, Virginia; San Diego, California; Oakland, California; Kansas City, Missouri; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Dallas, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; Topeka, Kansas; St. Louis, Missouri; and Portland, Oregon. The case studies shed light on what these constitutional contests teach us about different forms of government—the causes that support movements for change, what the advocates of change promised, what is at stake for the nature of elected and professional leadership and the relationship between leaders, and why some referendums succeeded while others failed. This insightful volume will be of special interest to leaders and interest groups currently considering or facing efforts to change the form of government as well as scholars in the field of urban studies.
Author: Kansas City Public Service Institute (Kansas City, Mo.)
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Published: 1929
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