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Dimensions of Local State Autonomy

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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)

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.

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  • M Dear & G L Clark, 1981. "Dimensions of Local State Autonomy," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 13(10), pages 1277-1294, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:13:y:1981:i:10:p:1277-1294
    DOI: 10.1068/a131277
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    1. Bowles, Samuel & Gintis, Herbert, 1978. "The Invisible Fist: Have Capitalism and Democracy Reached a Parting of the Ways?," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 68(2), pages 358-363, May.
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