JIMENEZ, Benedict Salazar <br/><br/>
Fiscal stress and the alocation of expenditure responsabilities between state and local governments :  an exploratory study 

 - Georgia :  Carl Vinson Institute of Government of the University of Geogia,  2009 
<br/><br/> Does fiscal stress at the state level reduce state governments expenditure responsabilities vis-à-vis the local public sector? If so, what functional responsabilities are implicity devolved to local governments or centralized at the state level as a consequence of declinig state fiscal condition? This study draws upon 26 years of cross-state data to examine the inter-governmental dimension of state fiscal stress. Three general framework - fiscal federalism, the politics (or interest group) perspective, and the organizational model of fiscal slack - are used to explain how fiscal condition of states can affect state-local fiscal relations.