In many countries, they are implemented public sector reforms inspired New Public Management. The main motivation are effectiveness policy, cost reduction and efficiency improvement. They often involve reducing bureaucracy by reducing the number of administrative levels. The main goal of paper is to characterize activities consisting in merging two local government tiers - a city and a county, and an attempt to their evaluate through the prism of results. The paper is based on the analysis of reports from ex-post research of such reforms' effects from many countries worldwide.
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