Format:
1 online resource (376 pages)
ISBN:
9780226267937
Series Statement:
American Politics and Political Economy Series
Content:
Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Ester R. Fuchs examines key policy decisions which have influenced the political structures of these cities and guided them into, or clear of, periods of economic crisis.
Content:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Toward a Political Theory of the Urban Fiscal Crisis -- 2 Fiscal Crisis and Fiscal Stress: A Comparative Perspective -- 3 Depression-Era Fiscal Crises: Political Lessons for Urban Policymakers -- 4 City Budgets and the Urban Fiscal Condition: Trends in Expenditures -- 5 City Budgets and the Urban Fiscal Condition: Trends in Revenue and Debt -- 6 Intergovernmental Relations, Legal Arrangements and the Urban Fiscal Policy Process -- 7 Interest Groups, the Political Party, and the Urban Fiscal Policy Process -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix A: Mayoral Administrations -- Appendix B: Some Methodological Issues -- Appendix C: Census Data Categories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226267906
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780226267906
Language:
English
