Popular processes and the transformation of state and local government finance

State and Local Finances under Pressur

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 95-162

  Mullins, Daniel R ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781781008522.000012     Document Type: Chapter

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