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Municipal Decision-Making Understood

In: The Municipal Financial Crisis

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  • Mark Moses

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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.

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  • Mark Moses, 2022. "Municipal Decision-Making Understood," Springer Books, in: The Municipal Financial Crisis, chapter 0, pages 123-134, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-87836-8_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87836-8_8
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