Forrester, John P <br/><br/>
Professional and urban reform: An organizational perspective on Municipal finance 

<br/><br/> The uncertainty of intergovernmental grans-in-aid in the 1980s has made municipal professionalism an issue that deserves increasing attention. Defining professionalism in terms of classical political and strutural reform as well as administrative reform. This analysis finds that politically reformed cities are not necessarily administratively reformed. A subsequen analysis explores the reasons professionalism influences municipal dependence or grants-in-aid. In short, we find that little on state aid, which we do not find to the true regarding their dependence on federal aid. These results even hold when controlling for the effects of urban need, municipal fiscal policies, and grant allocations. The find 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Urban Reform<br/> Municipal Finance<br/> Organisation<br/>Municipal Finance - U.S.A. - Georgia