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The politics of revenue sharing
- Title
- The politics of revenue sharing [by] Paul R. Dommel.
- Author
- Dommel, Paul R.
- Publication
- Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1974]
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Details
- Description
- 211 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 195-198.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Making of an issue -- The environment of public policy -- Federal aid: emergency of patterns -- National policy leverage: matching grants and income tax -- The Depression: Seed of new controversies -- The postwar period: complaints grow -- Revenue sharing: Centralization v. decentralization -- 2. Politics of policy initiative 1 -- The Heller-Pechman Plan -- Revenue sharing as politics -- Lines are drawn -- 3. Politics of policy initiative 2 -- GOP proposes "substitute" revenue sharing -- GOP strategy successes -- Pressures outside of Congress -- 1968 election: revenue sharing wins -- 4. Building a coalition -- Congress holds back -- Governors and mayors: agreement is reached -- Plan goes to Congress -- Pushing the old; Preparing the new -- Politics thickens -- 5. New plan; New controversies -- Policy formulation: president and his staff -- Mobilizing political pressure -- Congress wary on special revenue sharing -- Revenue sharing lobby -- Alternative plans -- 6. Congress enacts a law -- The Mills Bill: politics of bill writing -- Revenue sharing passes the House -- Senate: politics of the sharing formula -- Final agreement -- 7. Implementation: problems and issues -- Substitution issue revived -- Equalization: data effects -- Redistribution: decisional effects -- A future view.
- ISBN
- 0253345510
- 9780253345516
- LCCN
- 74000376
- OCLC
- ocm00940529
- 940529
- SCSB-108351
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library