Impact of Termination of General Revenue Sharing on New England Local Government Finance

Thai, Khi V.; Sullivan, David

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“…The 1986 attempt to continue revenue sharing failed because of a "lack of overwhelming support in the House as well as the desire of the Senate and the Reagan Administration to reduce the size of the federal budget deficit" (Thai and Sullivan, 1989). It appears from the evidence that the program was terminated with a "long whimper," as described by Eugene Bardach (1 976).…”

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The Policy Termination Process

Kirkpatrick

Lester

Peterson

1999

Review of Policy Research

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0The purposes of this article are twofold. First, f r o m a review of the extant literature on termination of policies, programs, and organizations, we identij) the "crucial variables '' that are believed to affect termination. In doing so, we develop a descriptive model of program termination. Then, we utilize this model as a hueristic device to examine the termination of federal revenue-sharing programs in 1986. After reviewing the available literature on this topic and analyzing the case of revenue-sharing, the article concludes that program termination is affected by three categories of variables: 1) inherent characteristics of the program in question; 2) the political environment within which termination takes place; and 3) specific barriers to termination.

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Section: The Termination Of Revenue Sharingmentioning

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The Policy Termination Process

Kirkpatrick

Lester

Peterson

1999

Review of Policy Research

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“…Further, internal validity should be increased by the survey questionnaire being designed in order for the budget actors themselves to control for factors that may have affected their financial management Administrative Response Cut services, enhance revenues, productivity improvements, etc. ___________________________________________________________ Sources: Dommel and Rasey, 1989;Spindler, 1989, 1990;Lu, 1994;MacManus and Pammer, 1990;Marando, 1990;Steel, Lovrich and Soden, 1989;Thai and Sullivan, 1989. behavior following GRS loss. The questionnaire asks for their behavior specifically in response to the GRS loss itself.…”

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“…The drastic budget cuts in New York City from 1975 through 1977 and Proposition 13 in California are two of the more prominent examples (Danziger & Ring, 1982). Moreover, since the 1986 GRS losses there have been several studies related to the resultant and anticipated fiscal behavior of local governments (Dommel & Rasey, 1989;Forrester & Spindler, 1989Lu, 1994;MacManus & Pammer, 1990;Marando, 1990;Steel, Lovrich & Soden, 1989;Thai & Sullivan, 1989).…”

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General revenue sharing loss: alabama local government fiscal responses

Cooper

1996

Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting &Amp; Financial Management

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This study explores linkage between Alabama local governments’ lost General Revenue Sharing (GRS) and their resultant coping strategies in the years following this federal program’s demise. Previous studies have failed consistently to relate particular coping strategies to how GRS monies were spent and to differing magnitudes of GRS loss among governmental jurisdictions. This study finds a possible linkage between Alabama local governments that cut basic governmental services and their previous GRS “dependency” and spending preferences.

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“…TELs increased local governments' dependence on intergovernmental aid, and diminished their capability of responding to changes in that aid. A survey of city managers in New England found that local tax limits further sharpened the 1986 loss of general revenue sharing, one of the few no-strings-attached grants of federal assistance (Thai and Sullivan, 1989). TELs' revenue effects were hinted at early on.…”

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State institutions and city property taxes: revisiting the effects of the tax revolt

McCabe

2000

Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting &Amp; Financial Management

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Cities' reliance on property taxes has declined since the 1970s. This shift has been attributed to state rules enacted in the wake of the tax revolt and intended to curb property taxes. The extent to which state limits on property taxes have affected their cities' revenues is unclear. This study examines competing explanations for the change in city property tax reliance among states. Pooled cross-sectional time series analysis is used to assess how much state limits or other factors account for changes in property tax reliance over time. The results of this analysis challenge state limitations' long-term effects.The new state restrictions on local property taxes were expected to have long-term effects (Lowery, 1983;Eribes and Hall, 1981), but most

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Impact of Termination of General Revenue Sharing on New England Local Government Finance

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The Policy Termination Process

The Policy Termination Process

General revenue sharing loss: alabama local government fiscal responses

State institutions and city property taxes: revisiting the effects of the tax revolt

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