A range of policy problems—from climate change to pension sustainability to skill shortages—
confront governments with intertemporal dilemmas: trade-offs between maximizing social …

Collective consumption and benefit characterize many government services. Moreover,
government services are mostly paid for collectively through taxes—there is little or no …

Property taxes are generally considered by economists to be good taxes, and many
countries are being advised to increase and improve their property taxes. In practice …

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act requires local education agencies to publicly
disseminate school performance data. In response, districts and state departments of …

Governments across the developing world in general, and Latin America in particular, tend
to have difficulty in raising taxes among elites. Beginning in 2002, however, the Colombian …

Conditions of fiscal stress in local governments prompt researchers and public officials to
seek to assess citizens' attitudes about public services and their inclination to fund …

Federal governments are increasingly employing empirical measures of lower‐level
government performance to ensure that provincial and local jurisdictions pursue national …

" This new edition continues the tradition of comprehensive coverage, providing teachers
with choices that are suitable to either two-or three-unit courses with emphasis on local or …

Advocates of citizen participation argue that a greater role for citizens in the budget process
can help city governments undergoing fiscal retrenchment by improving budget choices and …

Almost all local governments worldwide rely, at least to some extent, on property taxation to
pay for local services. Economists have long argued that the property tax is a good tax for …