Local Government Innovation and Revealed Ideas of Political Legitimacy: a Comparative Study between the United States and China

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zengke He
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Innovation

Grant Systems and Vulnerability to Fiscal Stress: A Comparative Study of Danish and North American Local Government

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-299
Author(s):  
P E Mouritzen ◽  
B J Narver
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
North American ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fiscal Stress ◽  
Socioeconomic Changes ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
High Degree

The properties of a country's system of intergovernmental grants may have important effects on the vulnerability of local government to socioeconomic changes and to changes in grants from the central government. A comparison between Denmark and the United States suggests that a combination of a low degree of equalization, high reliance on general grants, and a visible structure of taxation lead to a high degree of vulnerability to fiscal stress.

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