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    Merger mania : the assault on local government / Andrew Sancton.

    • Title:Merger mania : the assault on local government / Andrew Sancton.
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    • Author/Creator:Sancton, Andrew, 1948-
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Westmount (Québec)
    • Published/Created:Montreal : Published for the City of Montreal by McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Annexation (Municipal government)
      Annexation (Municipal government)--Canada.
    • Description:183 p. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Issued also in French under title: La frénésie des fusions.
      Includes bibliographical references: pages 169-183.
    • ISBN:0773521402 (bound)
      0773521631 (pbk.)
    • Contents:1. Municipal Amalgamation in the United States, 1854-1942
      2. Era of Big Government: The 1960s and 1970s
      3. Decline of the Consolidationist Movement in the United States, the Emergence of "Public Choice," and the "New Regionalism"
      4. Amalgamations in the 1990s
      5. Toronto's Megacity
      6. More Change in Ontario: Ottawa, Hamilton, Sudbury, and Toronto (Again).
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