United States Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project, 1983-1984 / Terry Nichols Clarket al.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 8709.

ICPSR ; 8709

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project.

Local finance--United States.

Local finance.

United States.

Fiscal policy--United States.

Fiscal policy.

Urban policy--United States.

Urban policy.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

For this data collection, mayors, city council finance committee chairs, and chief administrative officers/city managers in all United States cities with populations over 25,000 were surveyed. Topics covered include the relative importance of professional as opposed to elected officials in fiscal management, and preferences for and implementation of changes in spending levels in 13 policy areas (e.g., education, social welfare, streets, and police protection). Respondents also were queried about policy preferences, activities, and impact on city government of 20 groups (including employees, business groups, local media, the elderly, city finance staff, and federal and state agencies). In addition, questions were asked on city finance problems (e.g., loss of federal or state revenue, declining tax base, and pressures from municipal employees), fiscal management strategies the city had used (e.g., contracting out, user fees, privatization), revenue forecasting, integrated financial management systems, performance measures, management rights, and level of sophistication of economic development analyses. Background information on mayors includes terms served, years spent in elected office, political party identification, use of local media, age, ethnicity/race, sex, religious preference, and education. In addition to the survey data, detailed structural data on population, economic structures, industry, and the labor force are provided.... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08709

Contents:

Part 1: CORE40 Variables; Part 2: CORE40 Variables, Logged; Part 3: CORE41 Variables; Part 4: CORE41 Variables, Logged; Part 5: FORDT1 Variables; Part 6: Original Survey Data 1; Part 7: Original Survey Data 4; Part 8: County and City Structural Variables; Part 9: Project Documentation

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1983; and end: 1984.

OCLC:

61160719

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Restricted for use by site license.