The Influence of State Law and Local Governance on Local Finance

国家法律和地方治理对地方财政的影响

• 批准号: 8710230
• 负责人: Eric Monkkonen
• 金额: $ 7.06万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-05-01 至 1990-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8710230&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Influence; State; Law; Local; Governance

Until recently, legal and political theory has been dominated by the untested hypothesis that local government functions in a legal system crippled and frustrated by state and federal limitations. It has been asserted that the constitutional limitations historically imposed by state governments on the truncated and dependent local governments has frustrated the proper and natural development of municipal government in the U.S. and accounts for a whole host of contemporary problems. The fundamental power of American local government has been shaped by this "strict" construction of its power, a construction enforced through both state and federal court decisions down through the twentieth century. Dr. Monkkonen is conducting a socio-legal historical analysis of the efforts of state government to control or limit the indebtedness of local governments in the nineteenth century. His preliminary work at the state level indicates that there is no association between states that did and did not impose debt limits on the subsequent indebtedness of local governments. He will now examine legal control of local politics beginning with the Illinois constitution of 1870 as the basis for investigation. He will reanalyze data from a survey of 1200 local governments in Illinois in 1870 together with the censuses of 1870 and 1880 to study the impact of the imposition of debt limits between these dates. Local variations will be studied and extensive archival analyses in a subset of communities will be conducted to understand the political dynamics of variations. Issues that will be explored in the analysis include the nature of corporate, fiscal behavior, how government entrepreneurship was determined, the relationship between levels of government and popular political action, and the success of regulatory laws. Most importantly, the research takes an era of experimentation with local government entrepreneurship and examines whether externally mandated regulations constrict emergent, local public/private capital development or whether municipal corporations (local governments) limit their own fiscal behavior, with the main restriction to local fiscal behavior coming from risk aversive voters more than from any external controls. The Illinois survey and subsequent fiscal limitation activities represent a unique opportunity to examine the interactions between law, politics, and finance. The building and behavior of the American "state" has become a priority agenda for both theory and empirical research. The empirical results of this research will add new evidence that possibly the local state, not the national state, was the locus of American state building and provided a form of corporate entrepreneurship.

直到最近，法律和政治理论一直被未经检验的假设所主导，即地方政府在一个因州和联邦限制而瘫痪和受挫的法律体系中运作。 有人断言，历史上州政府对被削减和依赖的地方政府施加的宪法限制阻碍了美国市政府的正常和自然发展，并造成了一系列当代问题。 美国地方政府的基本权力是由这种对其权力的“严格”建构所塑造的，这种建构是通过二十世纪以来州和联邦法院的判决而强制执行的。 蒙科宁博士正在对 19 世纪州政府控制或限制地方政府债务的努力进行社会法律历史分析。 他在州一级的初步工作表明，对地方政府随后的债务施加债务限制和没有施加债务限制的州之间不存在任何关联。 他现在将以 1870 年伊利诺伊州宪法为调查基础，审查对地方政治的法律控制。 他将重新分析 1870 年对伊利诺伊州 1200 个地方政府的调查数据以及 1870 年和 1880 年的人口普查数据，以研究在这些日期之间实施债务限制的影响。 将研究当地的差异，并对社区子集进行广泛的档案分析，以了解差异的政治动态。 分析中将探讨的问题包括公司的性质、财政行为、政府企业家精神如何确定、政府级别与民众政治行动之间的关系以及监管法律的成功。 最重要的是，该研究以地方政府创业为试验时代，研究外部强制法规是否会限制新兴的地方公共/私人资本发展，或者市政公司（地方政府）是否限制其自身的财政行为，对地方财政行为的主要限制来自于规避风险的选民，而不是任何外部控制。 伊利诺伊州的调查和随后的财政限制活动为研究法律、政治和金融之间的相互作用提供了一个独特的机会。 美国“国家”的构建和行为已成为理论和实证研究的优先议程。 这项研究的实证结果将提供新的证据，表明美国国家建设的所在地可能是地方国家，而不是国家国家，并提供了一种企业创业形式。