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Evaluating Public Programs - The Impact of General Revenue Sharing on Municipal Government (Paperback)
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Evaluating Public Programs - The Impact of General Revenue Sharing on Municipal Government (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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For effective program evaluation, it is necessary to specify a
counterfactual state, i.e., what would have happened without the
program. Conventional approaches to program evaluation, preoccupied
with technical and value issues, fail to address directly the need
for counterfactual arguments. They also fail to recognize the
indispensable role of positive theories of technical and behavioral
processes in making these arguments. In order to understand the
impact of the General Revenue Sharing (GRS) program on the fiscal
behavior of municipal governments, Patrick Larkey develops and
demonstrates an unconventional approach to program evaluation that
overcomes these failures. Drawing on the positive theories of
budgetary decisionmaking processes as well as longitudinal revenue
and expenditure data from primary sources, the author specifies,
estimates, and tests four "bureaucratic process" models for each of
five city governments receiving GRS funds. Using these models to
generate complex, counterfactual hypotheses, he then compares the
counterfactual patterns with observed patterns to understand the
fiscal effects of GRS. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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