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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Terry Nichols, author.

Ferguson, Lorna Crowley, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1983]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231879835

0231879830

OCLC:

1100449293