Does the Charter Form Improve the Fiscal Health of Counties?

McDonald, Bruce D.

doi:10.1111/puar.12389

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“…As shown by the analysis of excessive indebtedness or, generally, of the fiscal health of public entities, there are multiple assessment methods and groups of indicators used in measuring these developments. This results in considerable disagreements [26,80,81]. In the US alone, several states have developed their own systems for measuring the fiscal condition of their local governments [82].…”

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Identifying the Financial Risk Factors of Excessive Indebtedness of Rural Communes in Poland

Standar

Kozera

2020

Sustainability

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The purpose of this paper is to identify the financial risk factors of excessive indebtedness of Polish rural communes. The objective of this research task is to verify the following research hypothesis: the main determinant of the risk of excessive indebtedness is the rural communes’ own income potential. To meet the objective of this research, an empirical study was carried out in three steps. The first step of the research procedure was the analysis of the operation of Polish rural communes in the context of financial management. In the second step was the analysis of indebtedness of rural communes compared to other types of Polish administrative units in 2007–2017. The evolution of the level and share of total debt in total incomes of entities studied was analyzed, and the share of overindebted rural communes was identified. In the third step, a discriminatory analysis was performed to build a model able to forecast the financial risk factors of excessive indebtedness for Polish rural communes. The problem of increasing indebtedness can be observed in a growing number of communes and on an increasing scale in Poland. The discriminant analysis showed that the share of the operating surplus and own income in total income, as well as the amount of the EU funds per capita (in zlotys), are particularly significant. The study reveals that the smaller the share of the operating surplus in total income is as well as the greater the share of own income in total income and the amount of the EU funds in zlotys per capita are, the lower the value of the estimated discriminatory function is and the higher the risk of excessive indebtedness of a rural commune is.

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Identifying the Financial Risk Factors of Excessive Indebtedness of Rural Communes in Poland

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Kozera

2020

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“…Rather than just focusing on their local context, these managers need to consider the political environment their state. Local governments may have some power of self-governance (see McDonald III (2015) and (McDonald III and Gabrini 2014), but the political tides at play within a state can fluctuate the environment in which they operate, and their freedom within that environment (Kim, McDonald III, and Lee 2018). This dual role of acting politically while administering government services is not new.…”

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State Preemption of Local Laws: Origins and Modern Trends

Goodman

Hatch

McDonald

2020

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

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American cities are creatures of their states, with states both granting and limiting the power of their cities. This relationship is characterized by how cooperative or competitive states are with cities in their legislation. Despite the recent attention given to state preemption of local laws, this is not a new phenomenon. Part of the confusion surrounding preemption is that there is no shared definition or understanding of its forms. The purpose of this article is to begin to create that shared conception. In doing so, we define preemption according to its historic origins as the use of coercive methods to substitute state priorities for local policymaking. We argue modern state preemption of local laws can be divided into four phases, each with their own policies and mechanisms. We show how preemption has changed over time, shifting the functional, legal, and political relationship between states and their cities. Together, these phases help assist policymakers and administrators in understanding the nature of state preemption, and thus how to create and implement local policies in an environment where the distribution of power between governments is competitive and changing.

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“…The urban literature on competition dates back to decades-old conceptualizations of local governments as "growth machines" and whether consolidated-versus-decentralized system of government achieved greater economies of scale or better captured negative externalities (Bickers, Salucci, & Stein, 2006;Hawkins, 2010). A more recent stream of research is built on public markets for goods (Peterson, 1981;Tiebout, 1956), and treats local governments as competitors seeking to grow their tax bases and add revenue-generating economic development projects in an environment where services are delivered not just by rival municipalities but special districts and modernizing counties (Hendrick, Jimenez, & Lal, 2011;Jimenez & Hendrick, 2010;McDonald, 2015), often with negative ramifications for income disparity and segregation (Howell-Moroney, 2008). Fragmentation has been described as a mechanism to improve service delivery when citizens are able to easily compare tax rates and service-delivery effectiveness and efficiencies across numerous nearby jurisdictions and lobby their own government officials to improve their performance (Schneider, 1989).…”

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Policy of Delay: Evidence from a Bayesian Analysis of Metropolitan Land‐Use Choices

Deslatte¹,

Tavares²,

Feiock³

2016

Policy Studies Journal

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Do local policymakers strategically use delay in permitting development to forestall the growth machine? The mantras of smart growth and sustainable development assume local governments can balance the competing values of economic development, ecology, and equity interests in a community. We employ a political market framework to explain differences in local government land use decisions. This framework conceptualizes policy choices as resulting from the interplay between the aggregate policy demand by residents, developers, and environmental interests and the aggregate supply by government authorities. Delays can be imposed strategically through processes of development approval by city governments where industry strength and form of government vary within county‐level service‐delivery fragmentation. We utilize novel Bayesian multilevel modelling of data collected from 2007 and 2015 surveys of Florida city planners and find strong institutional effects and multilevel relationships.

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Does the Charter Form Improve the Fiscal Health of Counties?

Cited by 45 publications

References 36 publications

Identifying the Financial Risk Factors of Excessive Indebtedness of Rural Communes in Poland

Identifying the Financial Risk Factors of Excessive Indebtedness of Rural Communes in Poland

State Preemption of Local Laws: Origins and Modern Trends

Policy of Delay: Evidence from a Bayesian Analysis of Metropolitan Land‐Use Choices

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