000			02009pab a2200193 454500
008			180718b2014 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_aLeland, Suzanne
245			_aPolitical and functional local government consolidation: The challenges for core public administration values and regional reform
260			_c2014
300			_ap.29s-46s.
362			_aJuly
520			_aThis analysis explores the options for a theoretical model to guide regional collaboration by local governments that is both politically feasible and consistent with core public administration values. The analysis first examines the research on the adoption, implementation and performance of political consolidation. We then examine the theory and research that underlie functional consolidation and assess both types in lieu of the values of public administration. We find that local government managers and elected officials need a theoretical model for regional collaboration that addresses a key obstacle to service consolidation among local governments: the perceived loss of political power and control associatedwith consolidation efforts. We suggest multilevel governance theory and the concept of shared sovereignty offer an approach to regional problems with an eye to the political as well as administrative issues, and with instruments that promote core public administration values. The concept of shared sovereignty that underpins the regional collaboration of the countries in Europe has both descriptive and predictive theoretical potential as a multilevel governance theory. The EU functions from a web of interlaced, interdependent agreements to share sovereignty in ways that manage political issues, economic factors, and administrative values, and in a fashion aligned with core PA values in the US. - Reproduced.
650			_aPublic administration
650			_aLocal government
700			_aThurmaier, Kurt
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
908			_aN
909			_a104977
999			_c104972 _d104972