Download or read book Consolidation of Local Governments in Chicago written by Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City County Consolidation and Its Alternatives Reshaping the Local Government Landscape written by J.B. Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City-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.
Download or read book The Nineteen Local Governments in Chicago written by Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unification of Local Governments in Chicago written by Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency (Chicago, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Case Studies of City County Consolidation Reshaping the Local Government Landscape written by Suzanne M. Leland and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.
Download or read book The Procedure and Problems of the Constitutional Convention written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Third City written by Larry Bennett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends—is such a powerful shaper of the city’s identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City—inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Daniel Burnham, Robert Park, Sara Paretsky, and Mike Royko—with the goal of better understanding Chicago as it is now: the third city. Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals working in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, according to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, a self-consciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century. The Third City ultimately contends that to understand Chicago under Daley’s charge is to understand what metropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming decades.
Download or read book Chicago Consolidation of Local Governments written by Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Convention Bulletin No 1 15 written by Illinois. General Assembly. Legislative Reference Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Callaghan s Illinois Statutes Annotated written by Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois 1921 written by Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 2266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the General Assembly written by Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Government Consolidation in the United States written by Dagney Gail Faulk and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses two issues related to the structure of local government: the determinants of consolidation and the potential impact of consolidation on local government spending. This is a narrow undertaking and leaves important elements of local government reform for future analysis. The study's primary foci are examining the factors that influence city-county consolidation, considering the impact of city-county consolidation on local government spending, and estimating the potential savings that could result from the scale economies and efficiency gains from consolidating local government units. While other regions of the United States are considered in this study, but the analysis focuses primarily on the Midwest where population declines and changes in the employment base and state policies (such as property tax caps in Indiana) have had dramatic effects on the fiscal viability of local governments. The current economic climate, along with policy changes related to property tax restructuring in many states, has led to substantial reductions in local governments' budgets. As a result, many local governments are in crisis and are considering some level of consolidation. Statistical methods and data on consolidation referendum attempts in the United States since 1970 are used to test whether governments that have consolidated (i.e., voters approved the consolidation referendum) had higher spending prior to their consolidation (as measured by local government employment rates, payrolls, and expenditures) compared to the average local government in the state. The effects of city-county consolidation are explored; using consolidation referendum data, the impact of consolidation on local government employment rates, payrolls, and expenditures is examined. The influence of consolidation on economic development is also investigated with some interesting results. The study also used two methods to estimate the savings from government consolidation and presents aggregate models to examine the potential savings from economies of scale and efficiency improvements. The book also helpfully provides a helpful discussion of the economies of scale and efficiency for several functional areas, including police and fire protection, sewerage, solid waste, public welfare, administration, health, education, and libraries. This book will be an essential resource for political scientists and policy makers interested in American government. Written in a highly accessible manner, it will also be a valuable read for students and general readers.
Download or read book Constitutional Convention Bulletins The judicial department jury grand jury and claims against the state written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Convention Bulletins written by Illinois. General Assembly. Legislative Reference Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in preparation for the Illinois Constitutional Convention, 1920-1922.
Download or read book Callaghan s Illinois Statutes Annotated 1913 1916 written by Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Integration of Metropolitan Communities written by Chester Collins Maxey and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
