James Tatum (Eastern Michigan University) has posted Cities, Economic Distress, and Dissolution (15 Albany Government Law Review 186) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Should this or that city exist? Such existential questions do not often arise in matters of public administration, but perhaps they should. This Article focuses on municipal disincorporation (or dissolution) and consolidation. The Article discusses what it takes to disappear a city and offers a theoretical framework for when dissolution and consolidation should be considered as a response to municipal insolvency.
