The Politics of City-County Merger: The Lexington-Fayette County Experience by Lyons, W. E.

The Politics of City-County Merger: The Lexington-Fayette County Experience (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813153339)

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The Politics of City-County Merger: The Lexington-Fayette County Experience by Lyons, W. E.

The Politics of City-County Merger: The Lexington-Fayette County Experience

$20.00
The Politics of City-County Merger: The Lexington-Fayette County Experience by Lyons, W. E.

The Politics of City-County Merger: The Lexington-Fayette County Experience

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: W. E. Lyons
ISBN-10: 0813153336
ISBN-13: 9780813153339
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d
By W. E. Lyons
By W. E. Lyons
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W. E. Lyons is professor of political science at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He served as chairman of the Lexington-Fayette County Merger Commission, the body that drafted the charter for the new consolidated government. He is at present a member of the Urban County Council, representing the Eighth District.

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