The Municipal Money Chase: The Politics of Local Government Finance

ISBN-13: 9780367309633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Alberta Sbragia

Opis

This book focuses on the political dimensions of local finance, emphasizing the local, intergovernmental, and private-sector constraints faced by municipal officials to provide services while balancing the budget and examining the impact of state regulations on local taxation and debt policies.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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).