Governmental Fragmentation versus Consolidation: Five Public-Choice Myths about How to Create Informed, Involved, and Happy Citizens

Lyons, William; Lowery, David

doi:10.2307/976575

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“…W. Hawkins, Ward, & Becker, 1991;Leland & Thurmaier, 2000;S. M. Leland & Thurmaier, 2010;Lyons & Lowery, 1989;Peirce et al, 1993;Rosentraub, 2000;Rusk, 1993Rusk, , 1999. They tend to focus more on benefits of coordinated and equitable services and enhanced regional economic competitiveness.…”

Section: Divided Schools Of Thought About Regional Collective Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Claims about benefits of consolidation in service provision through scale economy and better citizen responsiveness (Carver, 1973;Foster et al, 1981;Lyons & Lowery, 1989) are yet to be quantitatively supported. According to the study done by Hutcheson and Prather (1979), with the increase in size of the regional government comes an inflated bureaucracy that makes scale economies unlikely.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Community characteristics associated with local intergovernmental cooperation.

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Community characteristics associated with local intergovernmental cooperation.

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“…For some time, there has been disagreement in the public administration community about the size and scope of government and the application of market thinking, with its elements of maximum individual choice, decentralization, and privatization. These issues are unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, if ever (see, e.g., Golembiewski, 1997;Kettl, 1997;Lyons & Lowery, 1989;Phares, 1989;Ross & Levine, 1996, chap. 11;Stillman, 1991, pp.…”

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The American Review of Public Administration

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“…Support for consolidation has come from various national commissions (see National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission), Justice, 1967;20 National Advisory Commission on Goals and Standards, 1973); comparative studies (see Koepsell and Girad, 1979;Krimmell, 1997;Lyons and Lowery, 1989;Dowding and Hindmoor, 1997); as well as studies based in California supporting the consolidation movement (see Wickum, 1986;Herley, 1989). Still, consolidation is not without its critics.…”

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Louisville-Jefferson County police consolidation : officers' perception of organizational justice.

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and their rank (i.e., patrol officer or supervisor-including the ranks of sergeants and above). Forty police officers from a population of903 former LPD and JCPD members, still on LMPD at the time of this study, agreed to participate. Police officers hired postconsolidation (295 officers) were not included in the population for this study.vi The findings in this study indicate that: 1) police view a just or fair department based upon justice rules (i.e., equality, accountability, and flexibility/discretion) and interpersonal (i.e., comparisons made between officers on the same department) and interdepartmental comparisons (i.e., comparisons made between departments); 2) justice judgments can result in negative reactions directed toward the administration, but that an officer's sense of professionalism or lack of control of the situation could influence how he/she reacts; 3) police officers form overall perceptions based upon a value assessment of justice component and justice source; and 4) LPD and JCPD officers differed on their perceptions of fairness, based in part upon the issue of parity (i.e., pay and benefits).vii

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Governmental Fragmentation versus Consolidation: Five Public-Choice Myths about How to Create Informed, Involved, and Happy Citizens

Cited by 91 publications

References 2 publications

Community characteristics associated with local intergovernmental cooperation.

Community characteristics associated with local intergovernmental cooperation.

Running Government Like a Business

Louisville-Jefferson County police consolidation : officers' perception of organizational justice.

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