Dimensions of Local State Autonomy

M Dear and G L Clark
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M Dear: Department of Geography, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
G L Clark: John F Kennedy School of Government, Gund Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass 02138, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1981, vol. 13, issue 10, 1277-1294

Abstract: A materialist theory of the capitalist state construes the local state as an apparatus of crisis-management and ideological hegemony over spatially extensive and heterogeneous jurisdictions. Evidence from the State of Massachusetts (as an example) confirms that local state autonomy is subordinate to central state authority. Legal and constitutional arrangements, categorical transfer payments, standardized transfer formulae and implementation standards are shown to be important control mechanisms of the central state.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1068/a131277

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