Financing urban government in the welfare state. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Douglas E. Ashford.
• Editors: Ashford, Douglas Elliott
• Contents: List of Tables and Figures Preface 1. Introduction: Political Choice and Local Finance Douglas E. Ashford 2. How Cities Arrived on the National Agenda in the United States Mark I. Gelfand 3. The Rise of the Topocratic State: US Intergovernmental Relations in the 1970s David H. Mckay 4 . A Victorian Drama: The Fiscal Subordination of British Local Government Douglas E. Ashford 5. Central Government Grants, Territorial Justice and Local Democracy in Post-war Britain Kenneth Newton 6. Local Subsidies in the Third Republic: The Political Marketplace and Bureaucratic Allocation Jean-Claude Thoenig 7. Financial Transfers and Local Government in France: National Policy Despite 36, 000 Communes Yves Meny 8. Federal and State Transfers to Local Government in the Federal Republic of Germany: A case of Political immobility Bernd Reissert 9. Territorial Politics and Resource Transfers in the Netherlands Oliver P. Williams and G. Jan Colijn 10 . Centre-local Financial Exchange in the Welfare State Douglas E. Ashford Notes on Contributors Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 336.014; Municipal finance; Local finance; Intergovernmental fiscal relations; Welfare state
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000906950; 9781000906936
• Related ISBNs: 9781032516271
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