City-County Consolidation Pauline S. Powers he presents a nuanced and

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City-County Consolidation Pauline S. Powers he presents a nuanced andAlthough a frequently discussed reform, campaigns to merge a major municipality and county to form a unified government fail to win voter approval eighty per cent of the time. One cause for the low success rate may be that little systematic analysis of consolidated governments has been done. In "City County Consolidation", Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier compare nine city county consolidations incorporating data from 10 years before and after each