Bulletin n. 2/2011
October 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Wood Curtis
    Exploring the Determinants of the Empowered U.S. Municipality
    in State and Local Government Review , Vol. 43, n. 2, August ,  2011 ,  123-139
    This exploratory study of 142 U.S. municipalities identifies the factors that determine the scope of municipal discretion. The author finds total municipal discretion is positively correlated with the quality of the relationships between municipal and state officials, population, and education but negatively correlated with population growth. Municipalities located in the north and west have higher total municipal discretion scores than eastern municipalities. The author also finds that structural, functional, and fiscal discretion as well as municipal success/influence with state officials are individually or jointly associated with education level, population growth, population, form of government, region, political culture, local-state relational quality, and state fiscal peril.
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