Functional Responsibilities of Municipal Governments

León-Moreta, Agustín

doi:10.1177/0275074016675721

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“…The COVID-19 federalist lesson learned here is that sometimes federal action is only marginally better than federal inaction. As municipalities provide many services, what is often missing is the subsequent responsibility of the federal government: if states are unable to arrive at satisfactory solutions, then responsibility should shift to the federal government (Leon-Moreta, 2018).…”

Section: Implementation and Policy Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resistance to Racial Equity in U.S. Federalism and Its Impact on Fragmented Regions

Grigsby

Hernández

John³

et al. 2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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In this commentary, we provide our ground-level observations of how the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19 or COVID) has exposed weaknesses in our federal system to respond to local communities, particularly Black and Latina/os who live and work in the St. Louis region. Our perspectives come from a virtual town hall hosted by the Community Innovation and Action Center (CIAC) at the University of Missouri, St. Louis on April 18, 2020. Based on these initial public discussions, we use St. Louis as a lens for arguing that government’s attenuated impact is not due to a natural disaster itself, but the inevitable result of race-based policies that had worked against Black peoples over generations. The real failure involves our federalist system’s lack of a commitment to racial equity—when race no longer is used to predict life outcomes, and outcomes for all groups are improved—when designing the federal plan to respond to COVID-19 in local communities.

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Section: Implementation and Policy Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resistance to Racial Equity in U.S. Federalism and Its Impact on Fragmented Regions

Grigsby

Hernández

John³

et al. 2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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“…Further, this finding suggests some substitution of service delivery between general‐purpose local governments and special districts. León‐Moreta (2018) hypothesized a similar relationship—the entry of new special districts should decrease municipal governments' functional responsibility; however, he found no empirical support for this substitution hypothesis.…”

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Are special districts strategic complements or strategic substitutes?

Goodman

Carroll

2023

Public Administration Review

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What happens to general‐purpose local government spending for service provision when a special district enters the public service market? Theoretically, special districts can act either as complements by supplementing existing service provision spending or as substitutes by supplanting current service provision spending. We find a substitution effect using fixed effects regression on urban counties in the United States from 1972 to 2017. Special districts replace spending for public service provision by county governments; however, we find no similar result for municipal governments. But the results are nuanced—findings are confined mainly to public services that tend to cover large land areas, like fire protection, sewerage, and solid waste management. Furthermore, we find evidence that day‐to‐day operations drive observed substitution, and that county size is an important factor depending on the functional service area.

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“…Incorporated cities may promote the public good benefits of conservation via referendum, depending on their institutional capacities for implementation. Particularly, earlier-incorporated cities will adopt conservation programs by referendum as their public financing capacity becomes more institutionally established (Gordon 2004; Leon-Moreta 2018).…”

Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Ballot Measures for Open Space Conservation: Economic and Institutional Processes in Cities

León-Moreta

2019

Urban Affairs Review

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This article examines referendums for open space conservation, focusing on an assessment of their likelihood in cities. It presents data on conservation referendums, over 15 years, based on the Trust for Public Land’s LandVote® database. Economic and institutional factors of influence are explored across cities, testing whether those factors explain differences in the likelihood of referendums and their passage. One finding is that the frequency of conservation referendums varies dramatically across American cities. Additional findings, from a pooled time-series analysis, are that economic and institutional contexts of cities affect the likelihood of conservation referendums. The likelihood of referendums and their passage is further tested across alternative models to evaluate the robustness of the findings. While its central contribution is to research on local referendums, the article connects to the political market framework to identify factors influencing the likelihood of open space referendums.

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Functional Responsibilities of Municipal Governments

Cited by 7 publications

References 40 publications

Resistance to Racial Equity in U.S. Federalism and Its Impact on Fragmented Regions

Resistance to Racial Equity in U.S. Federalism and Its Impact on Fragmented Regions

Are special districts strategic complements or strategic substitutes?

Ballot Measures for Open Space Conservation: Economic and Institutional Processes in Cities

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