Journal article
The Australian Experience of Municipal Amalgamation: Asking the Citizenry and Exploring the Implications
Australian journal of public administration, Vol.75(3), pp.373-390
09/2016
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Abstract
Debate over municipal amalgamations in Australian continues to dominate local government reform agendas, with the putative need to achieve economies of scale and scope consistently set against anti-amalgamation arguments designed to preserve extant communities. Following from an examination of recent episodes of consolidation in Australia, this paper reports on citizens' attitudes to amalgamation garnered from a national survey of 2,006 individuals. We found that generally, citizens are ambivalent toward amalgamation, although attitudes were influenced by particular demographic characteristics and attitudes to representation, belonging, service delivery requirements and the costs thereof. The results suggest that, away from the local government sector itself, structural reform may not be the vexatious issue it is often portrayed as. The implications of this are explored here.
Details
- Title
- The Australian Experience of Municipal Amalgamation: Asking the Citizenry and Exploring the Implications
- Creators
- Roberta Ryan - University of Technology SydneyCatherine Hastings - University of Technology SydneyBligh Grant - University of Technology SydneyAlex Lawrie - University of Technology SydneyEidin Ni She - University of Technology SydneyLiana Wortley - University of Technology Sydney
- Publication Details
- Australian journal of public administration, Vol.75(3), pp.373-390
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 18
- Identifiers
- 991013125991602368
- Copyright
- © 2015 Institute of Public Administration Australia.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article