City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape

Carr, Jennifer; Feiock, Richard C.

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“…However, regional approaches can lend themselves to progressive or regressive political projects (Keil 2000 ). Moreover, while consolidation can in theory offer cost savings, efficiency, improved planning capacity, and greater authority to raise revenues, evidence is lacking or mixed (Carr and Feiock 2004 ; Swanstrom 2001 ). This calls for careful planning analysis to evaluate social, economic, and environmental impacts of regionalism under climate change.…”

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Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

Shi

2020

Socio Ecol Pract Res

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Green infrastructure is being pulled in divergent directions. As climate impacts intensify, advocates are promoting larger, ecosystem-scale strategies to help mitigate flood risks. Yet, research on existing urban greening projects finds that they can cause gentrification and displacement, suggesting that smaller projects may be more desirable from an equity perspective. This essay argues that cities need both large-scale and justice-enhancing nature-based solutions. They can help overcome tensions in these goals by (1) reframing green infrastructure as a way to support community development and integrated socio-ecological landscapes, and (2) advancing metropolitan regional governance strategies that alleviate municipal fiscal imperatives to maximize local land development. These proposals suggest that the practice of green infrastructure would benefit from diversifying its ranks to include social and government policy, community development, and agroecology, as well as learning from the Global South and those currently positioned as "off the map" of technical expertise. They also point to the need for interdisciplinary research that provides an evidence base for more transformative social, ecological, and governance strategies. While the essay focuses on the US context, it is relevant to an international audience given that similar challenges confront cities worldwide and that it highlights how the Global North can learn from the Global South.

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Section: Propositions To Rethink Green Infrastructure For Flood Risk mentioning

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Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

Shi

2020

Socio Ecol Pract Res

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“…On the other hand, critics claim that the theoretical assumptions made by polycentrists are unrealistic (John, Dowding, & Biggs, 1995; Lyons & Lowery, 1989; Orbell & Uno, 1972), that total tax liability actually increases with an increase in the number of local governments (Berry, 2008; Hendrick, Jimenez, & Lal, 2011), and that large non-overlapping governments are cheaper, more democratic, and less wasteful than fragmented, polycentric forms of government (Carr & Feiock, 2004).…”

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“…While this theory is highly intuitive and appealing from a policy standpoint, the empirical literature both supports (Carr & Feiock, 2004; Craw, 2008; Forbes & Zampelli, 1989; Oates, 1985; Schneider, 1989; Stephens & Wikstrom, 2000; Zax, 1989) and refutes (Berry, 2008; Epple & Zelenitz, 1981; Hendrick et al, 2011; Lowery & Lyons, 1989) this perspective, calling into question the efficacy of interjurisdictional competition and perhaps the existence of a local market for public goods (Lowery & Lyons, 1989). Excellent work has been done examining the impact of interjurisdictional competition on government size (see Schneider, 1989 and Craw, 2008), but the conceptualization and operationalization of competition lack the necessary complexity to fully capture the determinants of competition, which partially explains the divergent findings.…”

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Sorting Through the Determinants of Local Government Competition

Overton

2016

The American Review of Public Administration

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Competition among local governments for business investment and residents is a key feature of metropolitan governance scholarship. Despite the excellent work exploring interjurisdictional competition, the conceptualization and operationalization of competition still lack the necessary complexity to fully capture the determinants of competition. In reality, the degree of competition between local governments is a multidimensional concept. How do the different dimensions of competition impact a city's own-source revenue yield? Using a Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) to analyze a sample of 2,299 U.S. cities, this study finds that household income differentiation and manufacturing differentiation are important in a city's revenue yield, and both types of differentiation limit head-to-head competition among local governments. In addition, the results indicate that entry barriers and collaboration affect a city's revenue yields, while the number of cities in a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) does not influence those collections.

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“…Carr (2004) highlights the role of state laws in incentives for boundary change. Carr and Feiock (2004), and contributors, survey the larger field in light of consolidation debates.…”

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Municipal Incorporation

León-Moreta

2015

State and Local Government Review

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Using recent census data, this research examines municipal incorporations. The research is guided by the Tiebout model and a reorganization framework: it posits that wider income heterogeneity among county areas raises the probability of incorporation for higher-income communities, and incentives for incorporation include revenue and growth control. Empirically, change in unincorporated places is examined to determine how their income heterogeneity influences initiatives for incorporation, through subsamples of revenue and growth control. Main findings are that income heterogeneity raised the probability of incorporation, particularly where municipal per capita revenue is greater, land-use regulation is nonrestrictive, and population growth is rising.

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City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape

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Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

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