Amalgamation in action: Participant perspectives on the Armidale regional council merger process

Title
Amalgamation in action: Participant perspectives on the Armidale regional council merger process
Publication Date
2019-12
Author(s)
Wallace, Andrea
Dollery, Brian
Tran, Carolyn-Dung Thi Thanh
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5798-0543
Email: ttran43@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ttran43
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.1002/ajs4.88
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/27837
Abstract
Under its Fit for the Future reform programme, in May 2016 the New South Wales (NSW) government forcibly merged a number of municipalities, including the Armidale Dumaresq Council and the Guyra Shire Council in the New England region of northern NSW. Whilst scholarly attention has focused on the likely impact of municipal mergers on council performance at the system‐wide level (Bell, Dollery & Drew 2016; Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, 35, 99), much less effort has been devoted to the analysis of the perspectives of council managers and employees involved in forced consolidation. In order to address this gap in the literature, in this paper we present a case study of compulsory council consolidation of the Armidale and Guyra councils based on interviews with senior managers as well as a survey of council workers.
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Citation
Australian Journal of Social Issues, 54(4), p. 436-455
ISSN
1839-4655
0157-6321
Start page
436
End page
455

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