Facts about the Watson Initiative
Author | : Dykes, Stephen E. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Property tax |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dykes, Stephen E. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Property tax |
ISBN | : |
Author | : California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Revenue and Taxation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Land value taxation |
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Author | : John M. Allswang |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2000-07-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804780072 |
This book provides a detailed analytic history of direct legislation—the initiative and referendum—in California from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day. California was one of the first states to implement mechanisms for direct legislation, and these mechanisms have been used with growing frequency as the entire process has become professionalized (from signature-gathering through fund-raising to legal challenge and defense). The author studies this important political device in terms of voter interest and behavior, its role in public issues, and how it has affected the state’s politics and government. The book first analyzes how and why direct legislation came to California, seeing it as a typical example of the disconnected nature of progressive era reforms. It then studies selectively, from among the 300 propositions that have been on California ballots, those propositions that have been most relevant to the major issues of their time, have generated the highest levels of voter interest and participation, and have shaped the development of state politics and government. The author pays particular attention to the explosion of direct legislation, in frequency and consequence, since the Proposition 13 “property tax revolution” of 1978. He also describes how California’s contemporary direct legislation experience—from tax rebellion to harsher criminal justice to controversial ethnic issues—has had national ramifications. The book concludes with a careful analysis of the current state of the initiative and referendum in California: voter attitudes toward the process, its role as a “fourth branch” of government, and arguments for and against changes in the procedure. Based on extensive research in campaign documents, manuscript collections, the contemporary press, and other primary sources, the book also makes extensive use of voting data, public opinion polls, and official filings of campaign expenditures. All in all, it is the most comprehensive study ever made of a political process that is used today in twenty-seven states.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William A. Fischel |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780674036901 |
Just as investors want the companies they hold equity in to do well, homeowners have a financial interest in the success of their communities. If neighborhood schools are good, if property taxes and crime rates are low, then the value of the homeowner’s principal asset—his home—will rise. Thus, as William Fischel shows, homeowners become watchful citizens of local government, not merely to improve their quality of life, but also to counteract the risk to their largest asset, a risk that cannot be diversified. Meanwhile, their vigilance promotes a municipal governance that provides services more efficiently than do the state or national government. Fischel has coined the portmanteau word “homevoter” to crystallize the connection between homeownership and political involvement. The link neatly explains several vexing puzzles, such as why displacement of local taxation by state funds reduces school quality and why local governments are more likely to be efficient providers of environmental amenities. The Homevoter Hypothesis thereby makes a strong case for decentralization of the fiscal and regulatory functions of government.
Author | : Ohio. Constitutional Convention |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1096 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Constitutional convention |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Edward Watson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Edward Watson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Irene S. Rubin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317461843 |
Some of the best writings on public budgeting and finance can be found in the journals that ASPA publishes or sponsors. For this volume editor Irene Rubin has brought together the best of these articles - emerging classics that address the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting.The anthology is organized topically rather than historically, with an effort to delineate the issues needed to understand some of the more recent controversies in the field. Rubin's introductory essay and section openers frame the key issues and provide historical context for each article. The collection begins with descriptions of what public budgeting is, where it comes from, and what it is for. It moves on to the relationship between budget processes and outcomes, constraints on budgeting, the legal context in which it operates, and adaptations to those constraints such as contracting out.The book concludes with a discussion of the ethics and norms that underlie budgeting in a democracy. Throughout the anthology, the emphasis is on areas of disagreement and debate, so students can get involved and explore different viewpoints.