Fiscal Health for Local Governments
Language: English
Published by Academic Press, 2003
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- Title
- Fiscal Health for Local Governments
- Author
- Honadle, Beth Walter
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0123547512
- ISBN 13
- 9780123547514
Fiscal Health for Local Governments offers a how-to approach to identifying and solving financial problems. Its principal selling point lies in its assumptions: instead of using the vocabulary and research agendas of economist, finance scholars, and political scientists, it will appeal to readers who lack sophisticated knowledge in these areas and nevertheless need practical advice.
The book stems from the Fiscal Health Education Program, an applied economics program at the University of Minnesota. It uses three measures of fiscal health ― financial condition, trend analysis, and financial trend monitoring system ― as the basis for advocating particular fiscal strategies.
The book examines the tools that can be used to assess the condition of a local government's fiscal health and some of the policy causes or remedies for certain situations, as well as some of the strategies governments can pursue to maintain and improve health.
It will serve as a primer for readers interested in understanding financial processes and alternatives, and as a practical guide for those who need access to fiscal measurement tools.
- How-to approach will appeal to readers who lack sophisticated knowledge
- Contains discussion questions and anonymous case studies of actual cities and municipalities
- Presents practical methods for identifying and solving common fiscal problems
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"Honadle, Cigler and Costa have done an excellent job of pulling together a diverse and complex literature on the fiscal health of local governments. This book is a wealth of information for both students of local public finance and local government administrators and elected officials. The methods they outline are rooted on theory, yet have direct practical application." ― Steven Deller, Professor and Community Development Economist, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
"Fiscal Health for Local Government provides a pragmatic approach for analyzing the fiscal health of local governments. It presents several models for assessing expenditures, revenues and debt within the constructs of changing economic, demographic and political conditions, evolving intergovernmental patterns, and specific legal constraints. The book will be a useful guide for a wide audience including government officials, policy analysts and students of public administration and public finance. It will also be a welcome resource for courses in Fiscal Policy and Administration." ― Marilyn Rubin, Professor, Economics and Public Administration, John Jay College, City University of New York
This examination of the fiscal health of local governments offers a "how-to" approach to identifying and solving financial problems. It will serve as a primer for readers interested in understanding financial processes and alternatives, and as a practical guide for those who need access to fiscal measurement tools.
The book stems from the "Fiscal Health Education Program," an applied economics program at the University of Minnesota. It uses three measures of fiscal health―financial condition, trend analysis, and financial trend monitoring system―as the basis for advocating particular fiscal strategies. The book examines the tools that can be used to assess the condition of a local government's fiscal health and some of the policy causes or remedies for certain situations, as well as some of the strategies governments can pursue to maintain and improve health.
Beth Walter Honadle, Director, Center for Policy Analysis & Public Service, and Professor, Political Science, Bowling Green State UniversityJames M Costa, Vice President, Corporate and Investment Banking, Suntrust Bank, AtlantaBeverly A. Cigler, Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Director, Pennsylvania Program to Improve State and Local Government, Penn State Harrisburg
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