Foreword to Municipal Case Studies

Maher, Craig S.; Park, Sungho; McDonald, Bruce D.; Deller, Steven C.

doi:10.4324/9780429270765-9

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“…Chernick and Reschovsky also nd that welfare reform in the central cities has eroded overall revenue sources, as states have decreased their share of funding to these cities. Maher and Deller (2013) demonstrate that state-level scal rules in uence local nancial conditions. They showed that the more stringent state scal rules tend to diminish local nancial condition, speci cally by limiting local own-source revenues and general expenditures.…”

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Special-District Proliferation and Local Financial Condition: The Hidden Cost of the Externalized Service Responsibility

Park

2023

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General-purpose governments have increasingly relied on creating special districts to provide specialized public services to subsections of their jurisdictions. There are many presumed advantages of pursuing this strategy, including displacing some of the own-source tax burden associated with providing such services with outside revenue sources. This goal is feasible, as special districts are usually formed across overlapping tax bases across multiple jurisdictions. However, this empirical analysis of 51,000 special district governments in the U.S., collected over the past four decades, finds that increased special district proliferation has generally resulted in decreased financial conditions of general-purpose governments. These empirical results demonstrate that claim public goods provision through special districts produces indirect financial stress on general-purpose governments that must then struggle to use less efficient methods for providing the same or similar services to their under-served citizens who are not covered by the special district.

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Section: Intergovernmental Relationship and Local Financial Conditionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Special-District Proliferation and Local Financial Condition: The Hidden Cost of the Externalized Service Responsibility

Park

2023

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Foreword to Municipal Case Studies

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Special-District Proliferation and Local Financial Condition: The Hidden Cost of the Externalized Service Responsibility

Special-District Proliferation and Local Financial Condition: The Hidden Cost of the Externalized Service Responsibility

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