City Money. Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment /
Clark, Terry Nichols
City Money. Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment / Lorna Crowley Ferguson, Terry Nichols Clark. - 1 online resource (440 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. A Framework -- 1. A Systems Analysis of Urban Fiscal Strain -- Part II. Fiscal, Economic, and Population Characteristics -- 2. Fiscal Strain and Its Measurement -- 3. Private Sector Resources and Urban Fiscal Strain: How Tight are the Linkages? -- Part III. Four Political Cultures and Their Fiscal Policies -- 4. Political Processes: How Citizens, Organized Groups, and Political Leaders Affect Fiscal Policy -- 5. White Ethnics and Black Power -- 6. Democrats and Municipal Employees: End of the Liberal-Labor Coalition -- 7. Faces of the Middle Class: New Fiscal Populists, Republicans, and the Taxpayers' Revolt -- 8. Migration and Fiscal Policy: Are They Clearly Related? -- Part IV. Reducing Fiscal Strain: What Works? -- 9. Strategies That Often Fail: Intergovernmental Grants and Legal Reforms -- 10. Strategies That Work for Local, State, and Federal Officials -- Appendixes -- 1. Data Sources, Sampling, and Measurement -- 2. Model Specification and Statistical Methods -- 3. Correlation Matrix -- 4. Functional Performance Analysis -- 5. Other Variables -- 6. Problems with Municipal Fiscal Data -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Explores the issue of fiscal strain in cities throughout America during the 1970s through a study of debts and expenditures on common services, education, welfare, housing, hospitals, and other municipal functions. It also evaluates the linkages between the economic base, political decision-making, and urban fiscal policies.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231906562 9780231879835
10.7312/clar90656 doi
Municipal finance--United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General.
HJ9145 / .C5 1983
336/.014/73
City Money. Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment / Lorna Crowley Ferguson, Terry Nichols Clark. - 1 online resource (440 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. A Framework -- 1. A Systems Analysis of Urban Fiscal Strain -- Part II. Fiscal, Economic, and Population Characteristics -- 2. Fiscal Strain and Its Measurement -- 3. Private Sector Resources and Urban Fiscal Strain: How Tight are the Linkages? -- Part III. Four Political Cultures and Their Fiscal Policies -- 4. Political Processes: How Citizens, Organized Groups, and Political Leaders Affect Fiscal Policy -- 5. White Ethnics and Black Power -- 6. Democrats and Municipal Employees: End of the Liberal-Labor Coalition -- 7. Faces of the Middle Class: New Fiscal Populists, Republicans, and the Taxpayers' Revolt -- 8. Migration and Fiscal Policy: Are They Clearly Related? -- Part IV. Reducing Fiscal Strain: What Works? -- 9. Strategies That Often Fail: Intergovernmental Grants and Legal Reforms -- 10. Strategies That Work for Local, State, and Federal Officials -- Appendixes -- 1. Data Sources, Sampling, and Measurement -- 2. Model Specification and Statistical Methods -- 3. Correlation Matrix -- 4. Functional Performance Analysis -- 5. Other Variables -- 6. Problems with Municipal Fiscal Data -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Explores the issue of fiscal strain in cities throughout America during the 1970s through a study of debts and expenditures on common services, education, welfare, housing, hospitals, and other municipal functions. It also evaluates the linkages between the economic base, political decision-making, and urban fiscal policies.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231906562 9780231879835
10.7312/clar90656 doi
Municipal finance--United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General.
HJ9145 / .C5 1983
336/.014/73