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[In Brief] The larger the community, the harder it is for individual residents to influence elected leaders. [Rationale] It's much easier to register complaints or suggestions with elected leaders when they're close at hand. It's much easier to influence local leaders where residents are likely to run into the mayor or city council members at the grocery store, at church, or at a high school football game than in communities where the elected officials are held in much loftier positions. Who has to respond more effectively to individual residents' complaints: The mayor in a town of 500 or Richard Daley in Chicago? [Factor] 
Isolation from Elected Leadership
Should City and County Governments Merge? | Gongol.com
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