Journal article
Explaining Variation in State Assistance Programs to Local Communities: What to Expect and Why
State & local government review, Vol.19(3), pp.101-107
10/01/1987
Abstract
This article analyzes 19 state government programs to assist local communities in fiscal distress. The programs are first collapsed into five broader areas of assistance, based on factor analyzing the original 19 programs. The five types of assistance are then analyzed using multiple regression analysis, finding the following variables significant in one or more equations: state innovation, family income, state tax collection, state centralization, percentage of Democrats in the state legislature, per capita income, and municipal debt. The same set of independent variables was not significant in each equation, suggesting states approach these programs of assistance as unique types, not as a homogenous set. Departing from previous research, nearly all significant variables were characteristics of state, not local, government.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Explaining Variation in State Assistance Programs to Local Communities: What to Expect and Why
- Creators
- Keith J. Mueller
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- State & local government review, Vol.19(3), pp.101-107
- Publisher
- Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
- ISSN
- 0160-323X
- eISSN
- 1943-3409
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/1987
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984214802302771
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