The paper begins with a brief background on the underlying logic of the various institutional models and governance arrangements, prior to examining the history with each in the section that follows. [...] To this group, the outward expansion of major metropolitan and other high- growth areas in Alberta would be seen as being quite inefficient and problematic.1 Consolidationists favour policy tools such as annexation and amalgamation to extend the boundaries of central municipalities to take in more urbanizing territory in the surrounding area, believing that the institutional fragmentation that exi. [...] The first case of a municipality amalgamated against the expressed will of voters and council occurred in the Windsor area in 1935 (Kusilek and Price 1988). [...] Efficiency — Public finance literature suggests that the efficient provision of services requires a tailoring of local tastes and costs to the population receiving or making use of the service (Slack and Cote 2014). [...] Equity — The concept of equity involves a local government’s ability to share the costs and benefits of services fairly across its jurisdiction, in effect smoothing out inequities in the jurisdiction, avoiding deep concentration of wealth or poverty and maintaining a relatively consistent provision of goods and services.
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