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100			_aKarkin, Naci _916104
245			_aMunicipal amalgamations in international perspective: motives addressed in scholarly research
260			_bAsia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
300			_a41(4), Dec, 2019: p.187-202.
520			_aMainly underpinned by economic and financial motives, amalgamations of local governments in and beyond municipal areas have often been on the agenda of many governments. Some studies of the amalgamations have aimed to justify them or to falsify the efforts by concentrating on what could alternatively have been achieved; while others have presented the tensions between various dynamics, including democracy and efficiency. The studies have been valuable in identifying numerous factors of significance to amalgamation processes and results. Hence the present analysis of a selected range of them with a particular and important focus on various articulated motives of amalgamation. - Reproduced.
650			_aMunicipal amalgamations _916105
700			_aGocoglu, Volkan _916106
700			_aYavuzcehre, Pinar Savas _916107
773			_aAsia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
906			_aLocal government
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