When Government Fails - The Orange County Bankruptcy

Informationen zum Autor Mark Baldassare is a Senior Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and Professor and Chair of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California! Irvine. He is also founder and Director of the Orange County Annual Survey ! and the author of numerous books in urban politics. Klappentext When Orange County! California! filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6! 1994! it became the largest municipality in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy. In a comprehensive analysis of this fiscal crisis! the author uncovers the many twists and turns that led eventually to financial recovery in 1996--and how to prevent similar future situations. 86 tables. Zusammenfassung When Orange County, California, filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6, 1994, it became the largest municipality in United States history to declare bankruptcy. Presenting an analysis of this momentous fiscal crisis, this title uncovers the many twists and turns from the dark days in December 1994 to the financial recovery of June 1996.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Baldassare, Baldassare Mark
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1998
• EAN: 9780520214866
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21486-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology & anthropology