 Municipal Decision-Making UnderstoodMark Moses () Chapter Chapter 8 in The Municipal Financial Crisis, 2022, pp 123-134 from Springer Abstract: Abstract I promised a framework for understanding and resolving the municipal financial crisis. So far, I have provided an account of what local government is and described its value to residents and businesses. I have also provided a classification scheme that describes local government activities in terms of their relationship to governmental, commercial, and personal interactions and transactions. Municipal officials then need a clear decision-making standard and a principled decision-making method with which to apply this foundational information to decide the conditions under which it is proper to use local government resources and powers to protect (governmental legislative and enforcement), regulate (governmental regulatory), monopolize (municipal monopoly), engage in commerce (commercial services), or perform noncommercial activities. I now examine the traditional municipal decision-making standards and methods. I stated earlier that if cities can manage their way into insolvency, they can manage their way out. A new decision-making process, integral to the new framework, is key to how they can manage their way out. Keywords: Decision-making; Unintended consequences; Community interest; Public interest (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-87836-8_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87836-8_8 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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