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Is need enough? The determinants of intergovernmental grants to local homeless programs
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2019The Continuum of Care (CoC) is one of the largest homeless programs in the U.S. The main goal of the CoC is to ameliorate homelessness by implementing an annual intergovernmental grant competition to allocate federal funding to local homeless programs ...
David Lee
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Intergovernmental grants and local needs
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 1987Abstract This article examines the relationship of state and federal grants to local needs and constituent incentives. Focusing on Minnesota cities, the model hypothesizes that grants could be related to social and economic needs, fiscal stress of cities, or political factors. Regression results support the importance of political factors, especially
Gary Giroux, Casper Wiggins
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Free‐Riding and Intergovernmental Grants
Kyklos, 1992This paper argues that to associate intergovernmental grants with the objectives of equity and efficiency implies that governments are irrational. The authors find long-term systematic irrationality in the behavior of any institution difficult to accept.
Albert Breton, Angela Fraschini
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Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and performance grants in Brazil
Intergovernmental Transfers in Federations, 2020Over the decades, Brazil has undergone several cycles of centralization and decentralization. The choice of a federal design can be traced to the need to mitigate centrifugal forces and threats to territorial integrity that have been present since ...
D. Wetzel, L. Viñuela
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Explaining intergovernmental grants: Australian evidence
Applied Economics, 1991… the Dodo suddenly called out, ‘the race is over!’ and they all croded round it panting, and asking, ‘But who has won?’ Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in ...
Bungey, M., Grossman, P., Kenyon, P.
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The Intergovernmental Grant System
2012AbstractHistory will write the two-year period of 2009 to 2010 as a watershed in the federal-state-local fiscal relationship. The outpouring of aid helped states to avoid cutting spending and increasing taxes in the depths of the Great Recession. Federal grants dramatically increased as a percentage of total state revenues, from 26 percent to 35 ...
Raymond C. Scheppach +1 more
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State and Local Government Review
In federal systems, the relationship between central governments and constituent states increasingly hinges on intergovernmental grants-in-aid. Central governments are progressively leveraging conditional grants to advance supra-regional interests ...
Salvatore Barbaro
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In federal systems, the relationship between central governments and constituent states increasingly hinges on intergovernmental grants-in-aid. Central governments are progressively leveraging conditional grants to advance supra-regional interests ...
Salvatore Barbaro
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Evaluation and Program Planning, 2016
This article reports the results of a study on the outcomes of the Canada-Quebec Infrastructure Works 2000 Program (CQIWP), an infrastructure grant program to Quebec municipalities.
Kaddour Mehiriz
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This article reports the results of a study on the outcomes of the Canada-Quebec Infrastructure Works 2000 Program (CQIWP), an infrastructure grant program to Quebec municipalities.
Kaddour Mehiriz
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Bureaucracy and Intergovernmental Grants: A Comment
Kyklos, 1994Intergovernmental grants have been explained in public finance texts by reference to the conventional welfare economics arguments of equity and efficiency. However, a more recent assessment of decentralization questions the explanatory value of this approach.
PHILIP R. JONES, JOHN G. CULLIS
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Intergovernmental grants in Russia
Economics of Transition, 2010AbstractTwo hypotheses about the determinants of Russian intergovernmental grants are tested. According to the first hypothesis, federal transfers to regions correlate with recent voting behaviour of regional electorates. The second hypothesis states that transfers are higher in regions with politically powerful governors.
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