Municipal Government After the Crisis

Mark Moses ()

Chapter Chapter 10 in The Municipal Financial Crisis, 2022, pp 155-162 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the course of taking control of their activities and their organizations, municipalities will discover that they can be effective in supporting the flourishing of residents and the thriving of local businesses. Local governments administer group force—and that is a good thing when it is used to protect residents’ autonomy and voluntary association. A vague decision-making standard for deploying local government powers leads to unmanagable costs for the organization and terrible results for residents—and that should motivate municipal officials to adopt a clear standard that delimits the organization’s activities and promises better results for residents. And the future itself will be improved when it is not ignored—i.e., when municipalities attend to that which they should foresee. A proper framework is indispensable to transcending the confusion rampant in municipal administration, finance, and budgeting. This chapter explores the consequences of adopting a new framework for deciding the proper scope and range of local government, and the consequences of doubling down on the traditional approach to municipal decision-making. Only the former will enable us to fix municipal budgeting.

Keywords: Local government; City government; Municipal budgeting; Municipal financial crisis; Future of cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87836-8_10

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