City Money. Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment / / Lorna Crowley Ferguson, Terry Nichols Clark.
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,...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1983] ©1983 |
Year of Publication: | 1983 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
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Other title: | 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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231879835 9783110442489 |
DOI: | 10.7312/clar90656 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Lorna Crowley Ferguson, Terry Nichols Clark. |