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Federal Infrastructure Grants‐In‐Aid: An Ad Hoc Infrastructure Strategy
Author(s) -
Man Joyce Y.,
Bell Michael E.
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 - 10.1111/1540-5850.00979
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , federalism , federal state , critical infrastructure , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , fiscal federalism , section (typography) , public administration , business , public economics , political science , economics , computer science , computer security , geography , politics , decentralization , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , algorithm , advertising , law
This article analyzes the trends and implications of recent federal aid to state and local government for infrastructure purposes. The first section describes general trends for federal infrastructure and the second section examines identified characteristics in the context of fiscal federalism theory. The authors identify an ad hoc trend in the federal infrastructure grant policy and a trend focusing on maximizing the efficiency of infrastructure grants