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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. This volume presents thirteen comparable case studies of consolidation campaigns and distills the findings. In the 2004 debate leading up to a merger vote for Des Moines and Polk County, both sides invoked examples from this book.Leland, Suzanne M. is the author of 'Case Studies of City-County Consolidation Reshaping the Local Government Landscape', published 2004 under ISBN 9780765609434 and ISBN 0765609436.
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