The Political Economy of Local Fiscal Behavior
Author : Robert P. Inman
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Local finance
ISBN :
Author : Robert P. Inman
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Local finance
ISBN :
Author : Brian Dollery
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782541165
A study of local government policy formulation, drawing on developments in economics - such as new institutional economics - and advances in the theories of social capital and leadership. The authors also examine rival minimalist and activist approaches to local government reform.
Author : Harvey S. Rosen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Collects 17 papers by Rosen (economics and business policy, Princeton U.), many of which are empirical and involve econometric analysis of large data sets. Rosen shows how state and local government spending and taxing decisions are made in an intertemporal context that takes into account future prices and income, and are influenced by the economic environments in which they occur. Three papers co-authored with Daniel R. Feenberg (National Bureau of Economic Research) lay out a consistent methodology for characterizing state tax structures. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Minoru Kunizaki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2019-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811331073
This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics. Theories of those economics as well as empirical analyses have been developed dramatically in various directions in recent years. One direction has been to reflect real economic circumstances, especially in Japan. In the early 2000s, Japan experienced the so-called great merger (or consolidation) of municipalities in the Heisei era (1999 through the present), with the number of municipalities shrinking from 3,232 to 1,821 for increasing administrative and financial efficiency. This phenomenon is mainly due to a drastic change in demography in Japan: the dimishing birthrate and aging population. Following the consolidation, regional coordination has been undertaken to raise overall administrative and financial efficiency. In sum, various types of public policies for tackling the decreasing birthrate and aging population have been carried out. Urban sprawl and the timing of municipal mergers are dealt with from a broad point of view, and public child care services and tax competition are investigated from a policy standpoint. Another direction has been to incorporate new ideas for forming theoretical frameworks for local public finance, most of which have been based on static situations. In the recent trend toward globalization, local governments have attended not only to the welfare of residents but also to the interests of regional economic development. In addition, decision making by local governments has tended to be affected by political activities. Thus, the endogenous growth setting and lobbying activities for the activities of local governments are discussed in the book. With these new directions for analyses, the author tackles the topics of tax competition, cross-border shopping, local provision of public goods, and soft budgets, thus covering a broad range of aspects of local public finance.
Author : Werner Zvi Hirsch
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Jørn Rattsø
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Reprints 23 carefully selected articles intended to provide a balanced view of the Scandinavian model of local financing, including perspectives from four of the five Nordic countries, leaving out Iceland's unique design. They cover style, reform, and performance; demand; political institutions; cost and control; and theory. Among the specific topics are reforming a centralized system of local public finance in Norway, local public expenditure in Sweden as a model in which the median voter is not necessarily decisive, real and perceived effects of changing the grant system from specific to general grants, a hedonic cost approach to cost efficiency in providing child care services, and the behavior of bureaucrats and the choice between single-purpose and multi-purpose authorities. Most of the studies consider Norway, reflecting the much greater research into the subject in that country. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Stanley L. Winer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843767527
There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which politics plays no role. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a meaningful dialogue between these two groups, in the belief that the future of both political economy and of normative public finance lies somewhere between the two approaches. Some of the specific questions addressed in the book include: does public finance need political economy? Should collective choice play a role in the standard of reference used in normative public finance? What is a 'failure' in a non-market or policy process? And what have we learned about the theory and practice of public finance from three decades of empirical research on public choice? The book also provides a practitioner's view of the political economy of redistribution.
Author : David Neden King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000554651
First published in 1992, Local Government Economics in Theory and Practice is an effort to rectify the lack of a comparative analysis between democratic local governments of various countries and their methods of financing. A series of chapters examines the theoretical basis for different systems of local government finance and how these systems work out in practice. The book covers various aspects of reforms in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, and includes a discussion of the rationale for the community charge. This collection of essays will be of importance to students of economics and public policy.
Author : Henry Raimondo
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This text draws on research in economics, political science, and policy analysis to show why state and local public finance has assumed such an important role in domestic fiscal policy matters. Traditional topics such as the theories of taxation and intergovernmental grants are combined by Raimondo with numerous overlooked subjects to reveal the dynamic and complex nature of state-local government fiscal behavior. Among the topics discussed are regional economic performance and state-local government finance; state and local taxes on property, sales, and personal income; user charges and gambling revenues; and the beneficiaries of local governments.
Author : Yasheng Huang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 1999-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521665735
A political-economic analysis of how China has been able to avoid hyperinflation while maintaining high annual growth rates.