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Financing Urban Government in the Welfare State book cover

1st Edition

Financing Urban Government in the Welfare State

Edited By Douglas E. Ashford Copyright 1980
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge
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First Published in 1980, Financing Urban Government in the Welfare State shows how intergovernmental structures have now become the main policy device designed for an earlier age and often for quite different purposes, linking national and local policymaking. Special attention is given to the historical structures which now form the basis for national - local spending and investment decisions,... Read more

List of Tables and Figures Preface 1. Introduction: Political Choice and Local Finance Douglas E. Ashford 2. How Cities Arrived on the National Agenda in the United States Mark I. Gelfand 3. The Rise of the Topocratic State: US Intergovernmental Relations in the 1970s David H. Mckay 4. A Victorian Drama: The Fiscal Subordination of British Local Government Douglas E. Ashford 5. Central Government Grants, Territorial Justice and Local Democracy in Post-war Britain Kenneth Newton 6. Local Subsidies in the Third Republic: The Political Marketplace and Bureaucratic Allocation Jean-Claude Thoenig 7. Financial Transfers and Local Government in France: National Policy Despite 36,000 Communes Yves Meny 8. Federal and State Transfers to Local Government in the Federal Republic of Germany: A case of Political immobility Bernd Reissert 9. Territorial Politics and Resource Transfers in the Netherlands Oliver P. Williams and G. Jan Colijn 10. Centre-local Financial Exchange in the Welfare State Douglas E. Ashford Notes on Contributors Index

Biography

Douglas E. Ashford

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