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Author Lyons, William E., 1935- author.

Title The politics of city-county merger : the Lexington-Fayette County experience / W.E. Lyons
Published Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1977
©1977

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- Local.
Politics and government
SUBJECT Lexington Metropolitan Area (Ky.) -- Politics and government
Lexington (Ky.) -- Politics and government
Fayette County (Ky.) -- Politics and government
Subject Kentucky -- Fayette County
Kentucky -- Lexington
Kentucky -- Lexington Metropolitan Area
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813163598
0813163595