Someone to watch over me: State monitoring of local fiscal conditions

American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 236-255

  Kloha, Philip ^a   Weissert, Carol S ^b,c   Kleine, Robert ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Michigan State University ^*

^d Public Sector Consultants Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial emergencies; Fiscal indicators; State oversight

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944528450     PISSN: 02750740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0275074005277435     Document Type: Review

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