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The Federal, and the State and Local Roles in Government Expenditures
Author(s) -
Hush Lawrence W.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
public budgeting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1540-5850
pISSN - 0275-1100
DOI - 10.1111/1540-5850.00973
Subject(s) - state (computer science) , local government , function (biology) , government (linguistics) , state government , public economics , federal state , business , state function , public administration , economics , political science , economic policy , linguistics , philosophy , physics , algorithm , evolutionary biology , computer science , biology , thermodynamics
This article compares government expenditures by functional category of the federal government relative to state and local governments and the changes in their respective roles since 1955. The article includes a review of the federal role relative to the state and local role on a function‐by‐function basis for these three and a half decades. This analysis demonstrates considerable stability in the federal sector and the state and local sector, but also the capacity for change.