State and local finances under pressure

1. Introduction -- 2. The changing state-local fiscal environment : a 25 Year retrospective -- 3. Changing times : demographic and economic changes and state and local government finances -- 4. Politics, the courts, and the economy : implications for the future of school financing -- 5. Popular proc...

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Main Author: Sjoquist, David L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K E. Elgar c2003
Series:Studies in fiscal federalism and state-local finance
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Summary:1. Introduction -- 2. The changing state-local fiscal environment : a 25 Year retrospective -- 3. Changing times : demographic and economic changes and state and local government finances -- 4. Politics, the courts, and the economy : implications for the future of school financing -- 5. Popular processes and the transformation of state and local government finance -- 6. The federal government's impact on state and local government finances -- 7. Prospects and challenges for state and local government in a digital world -- 8. Deregulation of utilities : a challenge and an opportunity for state and local tax policy -- 9. Globalization and state-local government finances -- 10. Urban sprawl and the finances of state and local governments
State and Local Finances under Pressure explores the future of state and local government fiscal systems given the numerous pressures they face from economic, legal, technological, demographic and political forces. It explores how these multiple forces play out in terms of the changes state and local governments should and are likely to make
Physical Description:xiv, 340 p ill
ISBN:9781843760115
9781781008522
1843760118