Crossing Boundaries: Action Networks, Amalgamation and Inter-Community Trust in a Small Rural Shire.
Local government reforms introduced throughout the mid-1990s radically altered the face, institutional form and structure of local government in the state of Victoria, Australia. In rural areas, where shire boundaries often reflected deeply ingrained notions of communal interest and identity, the fo...
| Publicado en: | Local Government Studies Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 463 - 488 |
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