City Money. Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment / / Lorna Crowley Ferguson, Terry Nichols Clark.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Clark, Terry Nichols,; Ferguson, Lorna Crowley,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1983]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 1983
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)

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,...

Table of Contents

• 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