When Efficiency Is Unbelievable: Normative Lessons from 30 Years of City–County Consolidations.
We use a new model of city-county consolidation to analyze 12 local government consolidation attempts during the last three decades. Using a rigorously designed comparative case study, we identify the critical variables that explain why some consolidations succeed and others fail. Arguments for cons...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 475 - 490 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul/Aug2005
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