Financing Urban Government in the Welfare State

First Published in 1980, Financing Urban Government in the Welfare State shows how intergovernmental structures have now become the main policy device designed for an earlier age and often for quite different purposes, linking national and local policymaking.

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures Preface 1. Introduction: Political Choice and Local Finance 2. How Cities Arrived on the National Agenda in the United States 3. The Rise of the Topocratic State: US Intergovernmental Relations in the 1970s 4. A Victorian Drama: The Fiscal Subordination of British Local Government 5. Central Government Grants, Territorial Justice and Local Democracy in Post-war Britain 6. Local Subsidies in the Third Republic: The Political Marketplace and Bureaucratic Allocation 7. Financial Transfers and Local Government in France: National Policy Despite 36,000 Communes 8. Federal and State Transfers to Local Government in the Federal Republic of Germany: A case of Political immobility 9. Territorial Politics and Resource Transfers in the Netherlands 10. Centre-local Financial Exchange in the Welfare State Notes on Contributors Index

Product details

• Assisted by: Douglas E. Ashford (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032516301
• ISBN: 978-1-032-51630-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 420 g
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Public Administration, Social welfare and social services, Urban communities, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Urban communities / city life, Public administration / Public policy