Author(s)

Kwame Boakye Dankwa, Timothy Sweet-Holp

Department Political Science, Albany State University, Albany, USA.

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.

Consolidation, Regionalism, Unified Government, Georgia, City, County, Race, Space

Dankwa, K. and Sweet-Holp, T. (2015) The Effects of Race and Space on City-County Consolidation: The Albany-Dougherty Georgia Experience. Current Urban Studies, 3, 247-260. doi: 10.4236/cus.2015.33021.