STRUCTURAL SHIFTS IN THE TREATMENT OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL AID: THE CASE OF RURAL ROADS

The effects of structural shifts in the treatment of intergovernmental aid during the 1980s were tested using a sample of 1,929 rural counties with local road responsibilities. A dynamic model was used to test the hypothesis that local public officials treated intergovernmental aid differently after the Reagan/Bush policy of Fiscal Federalism was implemented. Empirical findings from the dynamic model are that Federal aid was much more stimulative at the end of the decade than in earlier years but the effects of state aid remained the same throughout the 1980s. These differences are attributed to a perception that Federal aid is less certain and more transitory than permanent.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Southern Agricultural Economics Association

  P.O. Box 1071
  Knoxville, TN  United States  37901
• Authors:
  • Deller, S C
  • Walzer, N
• Publication Date: 1995-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 522-535
• Serial:
  • Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
  • Volume: 27
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Southern Agricultural Economics Association
  • ISSN: 1074-0708

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dynamic models; Federal aid; Government funding; Intergovernmental partnerships; Intergovernmental relations; Policy; Rural areas; Rural highways; Rural transportation; State aid
• Uncontrolled Terms: Federalism; Local government officials
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Finance; Highways; Policy; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00789529
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 2000 12:00AM