An Exploration of Revenue Structure Characteristics in Rural Municipalities

Propheter, Geoffrey

doi:10.1177/0160323x19846928

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“…Because they manage their governments’ personnel and budgets, local officials are likely to be acutely aware of the resource constraints their communities face. Since rural communities tend to face tight budget constraints ( 37 ), the average local government official might be more sensitive than ordinary citizens to refugees’ impacts on schools, public transportation, and other public goods. In sum, local leaders not only represent a different demographic than the general public, but they are also likely to consider a different set of factors when evaluating refugee policy.…”

Section: A Local Government Perspective On Refugeesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local elected officials’ receptivity to refugee resettlement in the United States

Shaffer

Pinson

Chu

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Local leaders possess significant and growing authority over refugee resettlement, yet we know little about their attitudes toward refugees. In this article, we use a conjoint experiment to evaluate how the attributes of hypothetical refugee groups influence local policymaker receptivity toward refugee resettlement. We sample from a national panel of current local elected officials, who represent a broad range of urban and rural communities across the United States. We find that many local officials favor refugee resettlement, regardless of refugee attributes. However, officials are most receptive to refugees whom they perceive as a strong economic and social fit within their communities. Our study contributes to a growing literature on individual attitudes toward refugees by systematically examining the preferences of US local elected officials and offers unique insights into the views of this influential and policy-relevant group.

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Section: A Local Government Perspective On Refugeesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local elected officials’ receptivity to refugee resettlement in the United States

Shaffer

Pinson

Chu

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…However, the benefit is an ability to mitigate the impact of state-level characteristics, which can significantly shape the authority and role of local governments (Carr and Karuppusamy 2010). There is also robust precedent for studies of small and rural local governments in single states (Brunet 2015; Dimitrijevska-Markoski 2023; Dimitrijevska-Markoski et al 2021; Dougherty, Klase, and Song 1999; Koven and Hadwiger 1992; MacManus and Pammer 1990; Propheter 2019; Sokolow and Honadle 1984). Additional studies have examined local governments in Wisconsin, specifically (Deller and Maher 2005; Diaz and Green 2001; Helpap 2019; Johnson and Ihrke 2004; Maher and Johnson 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is also important to note that a standard definition of “rural” has not been established. Rather, several different definitions have been proposed or used (Lobao and Kelly 2019; Propheter 2019). The U.S. Census defines rural areas as all geographic locations not classified as urban.…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessing and Addressing the Challenges of Rural Local Governments

Helpap

2023

State and Local Government Review

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This research assesses the challenges facing rural local governments, impediments to addressing them, and the extent to which rural local governments would benefit from additional revenues, management capacity, or partnerships. Using survey data from rural local governments in Wisconsin, findings indicate longstanding problems related to revenue limitations, management capacity, and service delivery remain, but there are also significant concerns about high-speed internet access, affordable housing, and substance abuse. Impediments to addressing challenges include financial limitations, reduced state support, and declining community involvement. Obtaining additional revenues and partnerships with other, nearby local governments were viewed as the most helpful methods to address community challenges. Overall, the results update and expand on existing research on the challenges facing rural local communities, and further highlight the need for additional research on this specific subset of local governments.

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“…In the empirical evidence, the extent of revenue from own and shared taxes are investigated in many aspects, e.g. the vertical fiscal imbalance (Sharma, 2012;Eyruad and Lusinyan, 2013) the importance of own tax revenues due to sub-national responsibility over resources, tasks and spending (Bird, 2015), the revenue diversification (Jordan et al, 2017;Propheter, 2019). It is evident, that through tax sharing, moves in central government tax revenues induce certain changes in sub-national government tax revenues.…”

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Co-moves of Sub-national and Central Government Tax Revenues in European Countries

Maličká¹

2023

MNJE

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The aim of the paper is to elicit the nature of the co-moves of sub-national and central governments´ tax revenues employing main types of shared taxes -the personal income tax and the corporate income tax. Estimating the instrumental variable panel model based on the two stage least square estimator, the relationship between the sub-national government tax revenues and central government receipts from income (shared) taxes is investigated on the sample of 28 countries (EU and UK) in the period of 1995-2019. Expectation about inverse relationship is based on countermove of central and sub-national governments´ portions on shared taxes assuming that sub-national tax revenues are importantly affected by revenues from shared tax. However, results show, that observed negative effect of central government receipts from shared tax on sub-national tax revenues origins in overall decrease of receipts from income taxes in a notable part of the monitored period and in simultaneous increase of other sub-national tax revenues. Expecting cuts in income taxes due to the financial crisis, subnational governments sought for other taxable resources and generated the additional tax revenue and increased their total tax revenues significantly. Additionally, the heterogeneous period covers beside the break caused by the financial crisis also certain breaks corresponding to structural reforms in post-communist countries. Both require centrally provided stabilization and redistribution and are resource demanding, what is against the shift of resources to lower government levels, what creates the same impetus for sub-national governments in aim to seek for other tax resources.

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An Exploration of Revenue Structure Characteristics in Rural Municipalities

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

Local elected officials’ receptivity to refugee resettlement in the United States

Local elected officials’ receptivity to refugee resettlement in the United States

Assessing and Addressing the Challenges of Rural Local Governments

Co-moves of Sub-national and Central Government Tax Revenues in European Countries

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