City-county Consolidation Attempts in Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee
Author : David Harold Grubbs
Publisher :
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : David Harold Grubbs
Publisher :
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : David H. Grubbs
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Page : 836 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Metropolitan government
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Author : Suzanne M. Leland
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 158901622X
Although 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 consolidation—to similar cities and counties that did not consolidate. Their groundbreaking study offers valuable insight into whether consolidation meets those promises made to voters to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of these governments. The book will appeal to those with an interest in urban affairs, economic development, local government management, general public administration, and scholars of policy, political science, sociology, and geography.
Author : Alva W. Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Metropolitan government
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Author : Robert Eugene McArthur
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Metropolitan areas
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Author : Brett W. Hawkins
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Travel
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Author : Benjamin Houston
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0820343277
Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations. Benjamin Houston offers the first scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing new insights and critiques of this moderate progressivism for which the city has long been credited. Civil rights leaders such as John Lewis, James Bevel, Diane Nash, and James Lawson who came into their own in Nashville were devoted to nonviolent direct action, or what Houston calls the “black Nashville Way.” Through the dramatic story of Nashville's 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, Houston shows how these activists used nonviolence to disrupt the coercive script of day-to-day race relations. Nonviolence brought the threat of its opposite—white violence—into stark contrast, revealing that the Nashville Way was actually built on a complex relationship between etiquette and brute force. Houston goes on to detail how racial etiquette forged in the era of Jim Crow was updated in the civil rights era. Combined with this updated racial etiquette, deeper structural forces of politics and urban renewal dictate racial realities to this day. In The Nashville Way, Houston shows that white power was surprisingly adaptable. But the black Nashville Way also proved resilient as it was embraced by thousands of activists who continued to fight battles over schools, highway construction, and economic justice even after most Americans shifted their focus to southern hotspots like Birmingham and Memphis.
Author : Suzanne M. Leland
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2004-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780765632883
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.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Copyright
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Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
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Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 1962-04
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Abstracts of dissertations and monographs in microform.