01196pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002300040245008000063260000900143300001500152520080000167650002300967650002100990773005101011180718b2013   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aAfonso, Whitney B.  aCoping with the great recession: theory and practice for county governments  c2013  ap.768-779.  aThis 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.  aEconomic recession  aLocal government  aInternational Journal of Public Administration