The Relationship of the Cost of Local Government and Municipal Size in New Jersey

This paper is a revised version of the authors’ paper “Size May Not be the Issue: An Analysis of the Cost of Local Government and Municipal Size in New Jersey,” published by the Bloustein Local Government Research Center, Issue Paper #1.

Published by November 2014.

Written by By Raphael J. Caprio, PhD and Marc Pfeiffer, MPA.

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