Local Government and the States: Autonomy, Politics and PolicyM.E. Sharpe, 7 thg 2, 2003 This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the historical roots of the conflict among them, and an analysis of contemporary problems concerning local authority, local revenues, state interventions and takeovers, and the restructuring of local governments. The author pays special attention to local governmental autonomy and the goals and activities of local officials as they seek to secure resources, fend off regulations and interventions, and fight for survival as independent units. He looks at the intergovernmental struggle from the bottom up, but in the process examines a variety of political activities at the state level and the development and effects of several state policies. Berman finds considerable reason to be concerned about the viability and future of meaningful local government. |
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... cities and towns as municipal corporations are no better off than conquered provinces . Counties and other units of local government as quasi - municipal corporations — created by the state for its own purposes — are even worse off in ...
... cities and towns as municipal corporations are no better off than conquered provinces . Counties and other units of local government as quasi - municipal corporations — created by the state for its own purposes — are even worse off in ...
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... cities has become so basic to our current way of understanding American society that no modest effort to ' revitalize ' the cities by decentralizing power can succeed . Real decen- tralization requires rethinking and , ultimately ...
... cities has become so basic to our current way of understanding American society that no modest effort to ' revitalize ' the cities by decentralizing power can succeed . Real decen- tralization requires rethinking and , ultimately ...
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... cities . How much power do local units have ? How much power should they have ? On the descriptive level , social scientists have generally agreed with Frug in regard to the absolute powerlessness of cities , although the constraints ...
... cities . How much power do local units have ? How much power should they have ? On the descriptive level , social scientists have generally agreed with Frug in regard to the absolute powerlessness of cities , although the constraints ...
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... cities have even threatened to secede from their states . 14 In the early 1970s , Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York City called on the federal government to charter several " national cities " so that his city , which had a budget ...
... cities have even threatened to secede from their states . 14 In the early 1970s , Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York City called on the federal government to charter several " national cities " so that his city , which had a budget ...
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... cities . Since then , home - rule advocates have sought to maximize the ability of city officials to initiate action and to preserve a sphere of local activity beyond the reach of the state legislature . Carried to its fullest extent ...
... cities . Since then , home - rule advocates have sought to maximize the ability of city officials to initiate action and to preserve a sphere of local activity beyond the reach of the state legislature . Carried to its fullest extent ...
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Federal State and Local Relations | 19 |
Localities in State Politics | 36 |
Cities and the States The Historical Perspective | 53 |
The Authority Problem | 70 |
The Revenue Problem | 89 |
The Takeover Problem | 113 |
The Restructuring Problem | 132 |
Concluding Note | 151 |
State and Local Revenues Selected Years 19201999 | 160 |
State and Local Governments Selected Years 19021998 | 164 |
Notes | 167 |
Bibliography | 193 |
Index | 217 |
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Trang 70 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable.
Trang 2 - Municipal corporations owe their origin to, and derive their powers and rights wholly from, the Legislature. It breathes into them the breath of life, without which they cannot exist. As it creates, so it may destroy. If It may destroy, it
Trang 167 - The number, nature and duration of the powers conferred upon these corporations and the territory over which they shall be exercised rests in the absolute discretion of the State.
Trang 167 - Municipal corporations are political subdivisions of the State, created as convenient agencies for exercising such of the governmental powers of the State as may be entrusted to them.
Trang 71 - First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable. Any fair reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is denied.
Trang 31 - Association, the National Association of Counties, the National League of Cities, and the United States Conference of Mayors are assisting us in this effort.
Trang 24 - I am here today speaking on behalf of the National League of Cities and the United States Conference of Mayors.
Trang 8 - Legislatures, the National League of Cities, the US Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Counties. The...
Trang 100 - Grants are usually designated for specific programs in such areas as education or transportation, although most states also provide unrestricted grants for general purposes. In the case of shared taxes, states act as tax collectors, returning all or a portion of the yield from a shared tax according to an allocation formula or on the basis of the revenues
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