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Coping With the Great Recession: Theory and Practice for County Governments

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This article explores “best” and actual practices of county governments coping with fiscal stress. Using survey results from county commissioners in California and Georgia, it is possible to assess the recession's impact and identify strategies that have been used to deal with revenue shortfalls and how different taxes may have changed these tactics. It becomes clear that reducing expenditures is more commonplace than increasing taxes, and almost no counties are able to “do nothing” as the academic literature prescribes (Marlowe, 2009). Overall, the counties that are most successful at coping with the recession began to take action before they felt the recession's impact and subsequently are able to maintain service levels without dramatic changes to the way they budget.

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  • Whitney Afonso, 2013. "Coping With the Great Recession: Theory and Practice for County Governments," International Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(11), pages 768-779.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lpadxx:v:36:y:2013:i:11:p:768-779
    DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2013.794834
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    1. Tyler Andrew Scott & Nicola Ulibarri & Omar Perez Figueroa, 2020. "NEPA and National Trends in Federal Infrastructure Siting in the United States," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 37(5), pages 605-633, September.
    2. Nauli Aisyiyah Desdiani & Syahda Sabrina & Meila Husna & Amalia Cesarina Budiman & Fachry Abdul Razak Afifi & Alin Halimatussadiah, 2022. "Local Budget Resilience in Times of COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia," Economies, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-18, May.
    3. Rebecca Hendrick & Xiaoyan Hu, 2020. "Beyond Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting: Why State Governments Use Budget Balancing Maneuvers (or Gimmicks)?," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(4), pages 104-127, December.
    4. Whitney B. Afonso, 2015. "Leviathan or Flypaper: Examining the Fungibility of Earmarked Local Sales Taxes for Transportation," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(3), pages 1-23, September.

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