TITLE:
The Effects of Race and Space on City-County Consolidation: The Albany-Dougherty Georgia Experience
AUTHORS:
Kwame Boakye Dankwa, Timothy Sweet-Holp
KEYWORDS:
Consolidation, Regionalism, Unified Government, Georgia, City, County, Race, Space
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.3 No.3,
September
10,
2015
ABSTRACT: In this paper the authors summarize the history of government consolidation successes and failures
in Georgia, discuss regionalism and functional consolidation, and address social-structural
barriers to unified government. The paper focuses on the 60-year consolidation movement and
current unification efforts in Albany-Dougherty County, GA. Since knowing citizen perceptions is
vital in understanding the resistance to consolidation, the paper concludes with findings from a
2012 Exit Poll in Dougherty County, GA.