Managing cities in austerity : urban fiscal stress in ten Western countries

Author(s)

• Mouritzen, Poul Erik

Bibliographic Information

Managing cities in austerity : urban fiscal stress in ten Western countries

edited by Poul Erik Mouritzen

（Urban innovation, v. 2）

Sage Publications, 1992

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Why are some cities going broke while others prosper? This study of the failures and successes of city management offers new insights into how to manage cities effectively in today's economic climate. Managing Cities in Austerity fills a major gap in the literature on urban policy-making and comparative public policy. The product of one of the largest comparative social science research projects ever undertaken, the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation project, it maintains a genuinely comparative approach. An international team of authors applies a coherent set of concepts about fiscal austerity to over 2,500 local governments in ten Western countries. Most significantly, survey and hard fiscal data are merged not only at city but at national level.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Introduction - Terry Nichols Clark PART ONE: THE CONTEXT Introduction - Poul Erik Mouritzen The Structure of Local Government - Michael Goldsmith RT TWO THE FISCAL CRISIS AND ITS CAUSES What is a Fiscal Crisis? - Poul Erik Mouritzen Was There a Fiscal Crisis? - Poul Erik Mouritzen and Kurt Houlberg Nielsen Fiscal Stress and Central-Local Relations - Harold Wolman et al The Critical Role of Government Grants RT THREE LEADERS AND POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTS Choosing the Budget Size - Richard Balme Mayors' Spending Preferences in a Cross-National Perspective Fiscal Stress and Local Political Environments - Harald Baldersheim RT FOUR RESPONSES TO FISCAL STRESS Fiscal Changes and Policy Responses - Norman Walzer, Warren Jones and Hakon Magnusson A Comparison of Ten Countries Choosing Fiscal Austerity Strategies - Norman Walzer et al Municipal Employees and Personnel Policies - Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot A Comparison of Seven Countries Professional Management and Innovation - Stephen C Brooks RT FIVE PERSPECTIVES Money, Politics or Structure? - Poul Erik Mouritzen and Ari Yl[um]onen

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Details

• NCID: BA17084676
• ISBN:
  • 0803986327
• LCCN: 91053238
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; Newbury Park
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 242 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HJ9105
  • NDC7 : 349.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Municipal finance
  • LCSH : Municipal goverment
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07995531