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Smith, D. E. (1997). A History of the Unification of the Athens-Clarke County Government.
http://athensclarkecounty.com/113/Unification-of-Athens-Clarke-County

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• 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.