1st Edition
The Municipal Money Chase The Politics Of Local Government Finance
By Alberta Sbragia
Copyright 1984
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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Gone are the days when the raising and apportioning of municipal monies was a relatively simple task, when ample income could be expected to meet projected needs and also fund a few additional projects. Now local officials are faced with shrinking budgets, tax revolts, decreasing federal support, increasing state and federal regulations—in short, genuine crunches that leave them pondering how... Read more
Introduction -- The 1970s: A Decade of Change in Local Government Finance -- Inflexible Budgets, Fiscal Stress, and the Tax Revolt -- Politics, Local Government, and the Municipal Bond Market -- City Politics and the Market: The Case of New York City’s Financing Crisis -- State Government: The Overseer of Municipal Finance -- Managers and Politicians: The Politics of Spending Federal Money -- Congressional Politics, Federal Grants, and Local Needs: Who Gets What and Why?
Biography
Alberta M. Sbragia is an associate professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include “Borrowing to Build: Private Money and Public Welfare”(1979) and “The Politics of Local Borrowing: A Comparative Analysis”(1979).
