Local Government and the States: Autonomy, Politics and Policy

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M.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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Introduction
1
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 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.
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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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