WARD, James D
Responding to fiscal stress : a state-wide survey of local governments in luisiana.A research note - New York : Marcel Dekker, 2001
The early 1980s represented an era where fiscal stress, cutback management and retrenchment strategies captured the attention of public adminitrations scholars ad practioners. Yet, lessons learned from that era should not be forgotten. This research note, containing information from 1990s survey of Luisiana local governments, supports the position that rural governments suffer hardest in bad economic times and that precautionary measures shoud thus be taken to lessen the budgetary shortfalss which often result in either the cutback or the total elimination of services
Responding to fiscal stress : a state-wide survey of local governments in luisiana.A research note - New York : Marcel Dekker, 2001
The early 1980s represented an era where fiscal stress, cutback management and retrenchment strategies captured the attention of public adminitrations scholars ad practioners. Yet, lessons learned from that era should not be forgotten. This research note, containing information from 1990s survey of Luisiana local governments, supports the position that rural governments suffer hardest in bad economic times and that precautionary measures shoud thus be taken to lessen the budgetary shortfalss which often result in either the cutback or the total elimination of services
