ABSTRACT The 2007–2008 Global Financial Crisis renewed interest in New Public
Management tools. Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation are the two most common …

Municipalities large and small are grappling with how to address enduring water quality
challenges stemming from the impermeability of much of the built environment and how to …

This article updates cutback management theory and challenges austerity urbanism theory
by showing that local governments practice pragmatic municipalism—protecting services …

While national governments responded to the Great Recession with austerity, local
government responses were varied. Two contrasting views are found in the …

COVID-19 federal government funding, especially the State and Local Fiscal Relief Funds
(SLFRF) from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), passed in 2021, encouraged …

Land use reform has recently become the subject of contentious debate in the United States.
Once a fairly obscure and technical topic, zoning has become hot, spurred in large part by …

As local governments respond to fiscal stress after the global financial crisis, some scholars
warn about an austerity urbanism response wherein local governments cut and privatize …

Since the New Deal, American-style state-based federalism has been informed by two
important premises. The first premise is that in a common market, capital and labor do and …

A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept US
cities In the 2010s cities and counties across the United States witnessed long-overdue …

This study develops a stylized theoretical model wherein local fiscal pressure induces policy
distortions and thereby reducing the energy efficiency (EE) in firms in the manufacturing …