The Boundary Project is focused on empirically testing explanations for boundary change based on a collective action theory and examining the roles of institutions, incentives, and entrepreneurs in local boundary changes including annexation, municipal incorporation, charter schools, homeowner associations, special districts, and city county consolidations. This project has been supported by FSU Council on Research and Creativity and the DeVoe Moore Center.
DeVoe Moore Fellows Dissertation Research
• Carr, Jered. 2002. The Political Economy of Local Government Boundary Change: State Laws, Local Actors and Collective Action
• Johnson, Linda. 2004.
Constitutional Change in Local Governance: An Exploration of Institutional Entrepreneurs, Procedural Safeguards, and Selective Incentives
• Farmer, Jayce. ABD. Institutional Collective Action and Special Purpose Governments: Special District Formation and Regional Governance
Papers and Publications
• Carr, Jered. 2006. "Local Government Autonomy and State Reliance on Special District Governments," Political Research Quarterly 59
(3): 481-92.
• Feiock, Richard, Jered Carr, and Linda Johnson. 2006. "Structuring Debate on Consolidation: A Reply to Leland and Thurmaier," Public Administration Review 66 (March/April) 274-80.
• Feiock, Richard, Hyung Jun Park, and In-Sung Kang 2006. "City County Consolidation Efforts: Selective Incentives and Institutional Choice," Journal of Local Government Studies (Spring).
• McCabe, Barbara Coyle. 2005. "The Rules are Different Here: An Institutional Comparison of Cities and Homeowners Associations," Administration & Society, Vol. 37, No. 4, 404-425.
• Baer, Susan E. and Richard C. Feiock. 2005. "Private Governments in Urban Areas: Political Contracting and Collective Action," American Review of Public Administration, 35 #1: 42-56.
• Carr, Jered and Richard Feiock. eds. 2004. Reshaping the Local Landscape: Perspective on City County Consolidation and its Alternatives. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
