Useful Books, studies, reports and presentations about amalgamation
Books
Andrew Sancton, 2000, Merger Mania: The Assault on Local Government, Mc-Gill Queens University Press, Montreal
Studies, Reports and Presentations
Bish, Robert L., Amalgamation: Is it the Solution? Local Government Institute, University of Victoria, Prepared for The Coming Revolution in Local Government conference. Sponsored by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 27-29, 1996. Https://www.uvic.ca/hsd/publicadmin/assets/docs/bbish/amalgamation_solution.pdf
Callanan, M, Murphy, R. And Quinlian, A. (2014) The Risks of Intuition: Size, costs and economies of scale in local government. The Economic and Social Review, Dublin Economic and Social Research Institute, http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/70914
Cobban, Timothy, University of Western Ontario, 2014, study unavailable online, only press reports eg. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/mayor-to-province-review-hamilton-s-amalgamation-1.2489433
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/01/13/amalgamation_brought_fewer_ontario_cities_but_more_city_workers_report_finds.html
Crowley, Brian Lee, Municipal amalgamations in Atlantic Canada and beyond: Why amalgamate? President, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, http://www.aims.ca/site/media/aims/amalgamations.pdf
Miljam, L. and Spicer, Z., Municipal Amalgamation in Ontario, 2015, Fraser Institute, https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/municipal-amalgamation-in-ontario-rev.pdf
Poel, D.H., Amalgamation Perspectives: Citizen Responses to Municipal Consolidation, Apr 1, 1996, Dalhousie University, School of Public Administration, cjrs-rcsr.org/archives/23-1/POEL.pdf
Slack, E. and Bird R., Does Municipal Amalgamation Strengthen the Financial Viability of Local Government? A Canadian Example, University of Toronto, 2013, INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY WORKING PAPER SERIES, http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/icepp/36/
Schwartz, Harvey, Toronto Ten Years after Amalgamation, Department of Economics, York University, http://www.cjrs-rcsr.org/archives/32-3/SCHWARZ-final.pdf
Schwartz, Harvey, The Financial Implications of Amalgamation: The Case of the City of Toronto, York University, http://econ.laps.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/montrealpaper3.pdf
Spicer, Zachary, Regional Organization and the Dynamics of Inter-Municipal Cooperation, The University of Western Ontario, (2013). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. Paper 1312. http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/1312
Compiled by Amalgamation No Thank You
November, 2016
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