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The Politics of City-County Merger : The Lexington-Fayette County Experience /

Although city-county consolidation has been urged for years as a solution for many urban problems, relatively few communities have come to the point of offering such an option to the voters and in most of the communities that have done so, the voters have rejected the idea. In 1972 the voters of Lex...

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Autor principal: Lyons, William E., 1935- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1977.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyrights; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Consolidation Movement; 3 The Lexington Setting; 4 The First Steps; 5 The Underwood Era; 6 The Pettit Era; 7 Taxes and Services; 8 Shaping the Promerger Campaign; 9 Seeking Voter Support; 10 Launching the New Government; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W. 
520 |a Although city-county consolidation has been urged for years as a solution for many urban problems, relatively few communities have come to the point of offering such an option to the voters and in most of the communities that have done so, the voters have rejected the idea. In 1972 the voters of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky, approved consolidation by a better than two-to- one margin. W.E. Lyons examines this victory for consolidation, comparing the Lexington setting with other places where merger has been attempted. For the first time in the literature, the details of actually drafti. 
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