@inbook{da2d542cd74b46158e9bdb2099281d7b,
title = "An Analysis of the Criteria Used by Australian Local Government Amalgamation Inquiries Between 1960 and 1992",
abstract = "Between 1960 and 1992 Australian state governments held numerous formal Inquiries into the question of appropriate local government boundaries. The deliberations and subsequent reports produced by these Inquiries provides an instructive and informative historical background to contemporary debates surrounding the controversial issue of local government amalgamation. This paper outlines and examines the major criteria invoked by these Inquiries. It is argued that not only are many criteria intrinsically incoherent, but that they have also generally been inconsistently applied to the problem of local government amalgamation.",
keywords = "Public Administration",
author = "Stephen Soul and Dollery, \{Brian E\}",
year = "2011",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781848444430",
volume = "1: How Federal and Decentralized Systems Work and Institutional Underpinnings",
series = "The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics",
publisher = "Edward Elgar Publishing Limited",
pages = "496--519",
editor = "Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio",
booktitle = "Effective Federalism and Local Finance",
edition = "1",
}