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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Afonso, Whitney B. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
| Title |
Coping with the great recession: theory and practice for county governments |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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p.768-779. |
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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. - Reproduced. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Economic recession |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Local government |
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International Journal of Public Administration |
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