Carr, J.B.: City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape

Jered B. Carr is assistant professor of political science at Wayne State University. He has written extensively on city-county consolidation, municipal annexation, and the formation of special district governments. He earned his Ph.D. in public administration from the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. In 2001 the American Political Science Association gave him the Leonard D. White Award for his dissertation on local government boundary change. This annual award recognizes a dissertation written in the field of public administration. Richard C. Feiock is professor and Ph.D. program director at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. His work on local government and governance is widely published and he directs the Devoe Moore Center's Program in Local Governance.