Sharing Responsibility
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 43-52
ISSN: 1467-9299
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In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 43-52
ISSN: 1467-9299
In: The American journal of economics and sociology, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 512-512
ISSN: 1536-7150
In: The American journal of economics and sociology, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 494-494
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In: Challenge: the magazine of economic affairs, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 34-37
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In: Challenge: the magazine of economic affairs, Band 8, Heft 6, S. 66-71
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In: The American journal of economics and sociology, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 372-372
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In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 279, Heft 1, S. 98-105
ISSN: 1552-3349
In: Journal of political economy, Band 72, Heft 3, S. 312-313
ISSN: 1537-534X
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In: The journal of business, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 175
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In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 244
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: Journal of political economy, Band 58, Heft 2, S. 175-176
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In: American political science review, Band 57, Heft 1, S. 5-23
ISSN: 1537-5943
We present in this paper an economic analysis of American federalism as a system of shared functions. Recent political studies have suggested that the federal, state and local governments may be viewed as closely meshed parts of a single system. Functions are not neatly parceled out among the many units, or along the three planes, of the federal system. Rather, it is difficult to find any governmental activity performed by a given plane of government which does not involve the other planes in important and continuing responsibilities. Decision-making power, as well as administration, is shared. Formally, as in grant-in-aid programs, and informally, as in the cooperation of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers, the three planes of government work substantially as one in the fulfillment of common purposes.It is possible to formulate an economic counterpart to the hypothesis of political sharing, as follows:Despite apparent diversities in the fiscal activities of the federal government, on the one hand, and state-local governments, on the other, an essential consistency marks the economic impacts of these two planes of government. In political analysis the sharing hypothesis relies for demonstration on descriptive studies of the common involvement of the federal, state, and local governments in the entire range of their activities. More quantitative criteria can be applied in testing economic impacts.Three types of economic impacts of government can be distinguished: on the allocation of resources between public and private use; on the level of aggregate demand (income and employment); and on the distribution of income among households. These are the major categories of economic impact with which the economist deals. They are distinct areas: the resource-shifting effect of government, for example, is analytically separate from the equalization-of-income effect.
In: The Economic Journal, Band 70, Heft 279, S. 626
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 31
ISSN: 1540-6210