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Research Articles and Books on Counties
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__________ 1991 "Counties," In Intergovernmental Perspective, 17 (Winter): 1-51, John Kincaid, ed Washington, D.C U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
__________ 1991 The Allegheny County Case Washington, D.C.: U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
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__________ 2002 "County Government Service Delivery: Does Government Structure Matter?" Public Administration Review, 62 (July/August): 471-479.
___________ 2003 "County Government." In Jack Rabin, ed., Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (New York: Marcel Dekker): 261-266.
__________ 2003 "County Government Structure and County Revenue Policy: What's the Connection?" State and Local Government Review, 35 (Spring): 78-89.
__________ 2003 "The Impact of Structural Reform on County Government Service Provision," Social Science Quarterly, 84 (December): forthcoming.
Benton, J. Edwin, and Donald C. Menzel 1991 "County Service Trends and Practices: The Case of Florida," State and Local Government Review, 9 (Spring): 68-75.
__________ 1992 "Contracting and Franchising County Services in Florida," Urban Affairs Quarterly, 27 (March): 436-456.
__________ 1993 "County Services: The Emergence of Full-Service Government." In David R. Berman, ed., County Governments in an Era of Change (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press): 53-69.
Benton, J. Edwin, and Darwin Gamble 1984 "City/County Consolidation and Economies of Scale: Evidence from a Time-Series Analysis of Jacksonville, Florida," Social Science Quarterly, 65 (March): 190-198.
Benton, J. Edwin, and Platon N. Rigos 1985 "Patterns of Metropolitan Service Dominance: Central City and Central County Service Roles Compared," Urban Affairs Quarterly, 20 (March): 285-302.
Berman, David R. (ed). 1993 County Governments in an Era of Change. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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Brown, Trevor L., and Matthew Potoski 2003 "Contract-Management Capacity in Municipal and County Governments," Public Administration Review, 63 (March/April): 153-164
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Cigler, Beverly A 1990 "County Contracting: Reconciling the Accountability and Information Paradoxes," Public Administration Quarterly, 14 (Fall): 285-301.
__________ 1994 "The County-State Connection: A National Study of Associations of Counties," Public Administration Review, 54 (January/February): 3-11.
__________ 1995 "County Governance in the 1990s," State and Local Government Review, 27 (Winter): 55-70.
Clark, Cal, Janet Clark, and Karen A. Stanford 1994 "The Boom-Bust Cycle in Wyoming County Spending: Implications for Budget Theories," International Journal of Public Administration, 17(5): 881-910.
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__________ 1977 Modern County Government Washington, D.C.: National Association of Counties.
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__________ 2000 "Private Incentives and Academic Entrepreneurship: The Promotion of City-County Consolidation," Public Administration Quarterly, 24 (Summer): 223-245.
__________ 2003 "Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Local Government Consolidation: Does C3=A+E3+V?" State and Local Government Review, 35 (forthcoming).
Fleischmann, Arnold 2000 "Regionalism and City-County Consolidation in Small Metro Areas," State and Local Government Review, 32 (Fall): 213-226.
Gilbertson, Henry S 1917 The County: The 'Dark Continent' of American Politics New York: National Short Ballot Organization.
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Gonzalez, Oscar 2000 "Previous Consolidation Efforts in the Global Metropolitan Region of El Paso, Texas," Public Administration Quarterly, 24 (Summer): 247-274
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Jenks, Stephen 1994 "County Compliance with North Carolina's Solid-Waste Mandate: A Conflict-Based Model," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 24 (Spring): 17-36.
Johnston, Jocelyn M., Michael A. Pagano, and Philip A. Russo, Jr 2000 "State Limits and State Aid: An Exploratory Analysis of County Revenue Structures," State and Local Government Review, 32 (Spring): 86-97.
Jung, Changhoon 2002 "The Effect of Local Earmarking on Capital Spending in Georgia Counties," State and Local Government Review, 34 (Winter): 29-37,
Khator, Renu 1994 "Coping with Coercion: Florida Counties and the State's Recycling Law," State and Local Government Review, 26 (Fall): 181-191.
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Lyons, William E., and John M. Scheb II 1998 "Saying 'No' One More Time: The Rejection of Consolidated Government in Knox County Tennessee," State and Local Government Review, 30 (Spring): 92-105.
MacManus Susan A 1991 "Why Businesses Are Reluctant to Sell to Government," Public Administration Review, 51 (July/August): 328-344.
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__________ 1977 "County Commissioners Attitudes Toward Growth: A Two-State Comparison," Social Science Quarterly, 58 (June): 129-138.
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__________ 1993 "County Government Structural Reform: Influence of State, Region, and Urbanization," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 23 (Winter): 41-52
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Mead, Timothy D 1994 "The Daily Newspaper as Political Agenda Setter: The Charlotte Observer and Metropolitan Reform," State and Local Government Review, 26 (Winter): 27-37.
Menzel, Donald C 1996 The American County: Frontiers of Knowledge (University, AL: University of Alabama Press.
Menzel, Donald C., and J. Edwin Benton 1990 Service Trends and Practices in Florida Counties Tampa, FL: Center for Public Affairs & Policy Management, University of South Florida.
__________ 1991 "Florida County Service Trends and Practices," Journal of STAR Research, 2 (1): 16-37.
__________ 1991 "Citizen Contacting in Urban Counties: A Case Study of Hillsborough County, Florida," Journal of Urban Affairs, 13 (January): 33-43.
__________ 1991 "Ethics Complaints and Local Government: A Study of Florida Cities and Counties," Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 1 (October): 419-435.
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__________ 1989 "Local Government Constitutions: A Different View of Metropolitan Government," American Review of Public Administration, 19 (December): 16-37.
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