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A source for directors looking cutting edge rules and assisting precedents in formulating coverage, this ebook additionally offers an invaluable textbook for public management and coverage scholars. It employs a wealth of case stories in budgeting and fiscal administration to illustrate concepts in method implementation, coverage formula, executive accounting, auditing, and monetary reporting. With contributions from best specialists, it clarifies systems to unravel cutback and downsizing dilemmas utilizing theoretical versions, and offers pragmatic methods to handling monetary actions less than budgetary pressure. It additionally covers the evolution of a debt administration coverage.
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The former may be both a function and an outcome of fiscal stress. The latter is to some extent a function of size and complexity of the respective service delivery systems. It may also be explained in terms of the way administrative organizations are historically established by accretion rather than design, making it difficult if not impossible to eliminate bureaucratic units that no longer have utility or purpose. Older cities do impose larger tax burdens than newer ones. These differences are somewhat modified, however, when various forms of other local revenues are added to the equation that impose a financial burden on constituents.
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1989). City Limits. Chicago: University of Chicago, Press; Shefter, M. (1985). Fiscal Crisis, Political Crisis. New York: Basic Books; Nathan and Adams also found a disproportionate incidence of fiscal hardship among Northeast and North Central cities. See Nathan, R. P. and Adams, C. F. (1976). Understanding central city hardship. Political Science Quarterly, 91, The Political Economy of City Life Cycles 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 15 47-62; and (1989). Four perspectives on urban hardship. Political Science Quarterly, 104, 483-508.