Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. A Framework
6. 1. A Systems Analysis of Urban Fiscal Strain 17
7. Part II. Fiscal, Economic, and Population Characteristics
8. 2. Fiscal Strain and Its Measurement 43
9. 3. Private Sector Resources and Urban Fiscal Strain: How Tight are the Linkages? 75
10. Part III. Four Political Cultures and Their Fiscal Policies
11. 4. Political Processes: How Citizens, Organized Groups, and Political Leaders Affect Fiscal Policy 95
12. 5. White Ethnics and Black Power 120
13. 6. Democrats and Municipal Employees: End of the Liberal-Labor Coalition 145
14. 7. Faces of the Middle Class: New Fiscal Populists, Republicans, and the Taxpayers' Revolt 173
15. 8. Migration and Fiscal Policy: Are They Clearly Related? 204
16. Part IV. Reducing Fiscal Strain: What Works?
17. 9. Strategies That Often Fail: Intergovernmental Grants and Legal Reforms 223
18. 10. Strategies That Work for Local, State, and Federal Officials 245
19. Appendixes
20. 1. Data Sources, Sampling, and Measurement 263
21. 2. Model Specification and Statistical Methods 286
22. 3. Correlation Matrix 309
23. 4. Functional Performance Analysis 314
24. 5. Other Variables 320
25. 6. Problems with Municipal Fiscal Data 330
26. Notes 337
27. Bibliography 387
28. Author Index 427
29. Subject Index 433