Articoli correlati a Evaluating Public Programs: The Impact of General Revenue...

Evaluating Public Programs: The Impact of General Revenue Sharing on Municipal Government (Princeton Legacy Library) - Brossura

Larkey, Patrick D.

 
9780691628028: Evaluating Public Programs: The Impact of General Revenue Sharing on Municipal Government (Princeton Legacy Library)
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0691628025 ISBN 13: 9780691628028
Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 2015

Sinossi

For effective program evaluation, it is necessary to specify a counterfactual state, i.e., what would have happened without the program. Conventional approaches to program evaluation, preoccupied with technical and value issues, fail to address directly the need for counterfactual arguments. They also fail to recognize the indispensable role of positive theories of technical and behavioral processes in making these arguments. In order to understand the impact of the General Revenue Sharing (GRS) program on the fiscal behavior of municipal governments, Patrick Larkey develops and demonstrates an unconventional approach to program evaluation that overcomes these failures. Drawing on the positive theories of budgetary decisionmaking processes as well as longitudinal revenue and expenditure data from primary sources, the author specifies, estimates, and tests four "bureaucratic process" models for each of five city governments receiving GRS funds. Using these models to generate complex, counterfactual hypotheses, he then compares the counterfactual patterns with observed patterns to understand the fiscal effects of GRS. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Editore
Princeton University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0691628025
ISBN 13 
9780691628028
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
284
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Europaallee 1
Bad Hersfeld
36244
Germania