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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hendrick, Rebecca M

Titel

Managing the Fiscal Metropolis: The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities

Ist Teil von

• Georgetown University Press, Dec 2011, 288 pp, 2011

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This volume is an analysis of the financial condition, management, and policy making of local governments in a metropolitan region. It seeks to offer local governments currently dealing with the Great Recession a better understanding of what affects them financially and how to operate with less revenue. The study covers 264 Chicago suburban municipalities from the late 1990s to the present. The author identifies and describes the primary factors and events that affect municipal financial decisions and financial conditions, explores the strategies these governments use to manage financial conditions and solve financial problems, and looks at the impact of contextual factors and stresses on government financial decisions. The wide economic and social diversity of the municipalities studied make its findings relevant on a national scale. Appendixes, References.