Title: The politics of revenue sharing
Authors: Dommel, Paul R., 1933-
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 1974
Subjects: Grants-in-aid United States.; Intergovernmental fiscal relations United States.; United States Politics and government
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Making of an Issue -- The Environment of Public Policy -- Federal Aid:Emergency of Patterns -- National Policy Leverage: Matching Grants and Income Tax -- The Depression: Seed of New Controversies -- The Postwar Period:Complaints Grow -- Revenue Sharing: Centralization v. Decentralization -- 2. Politics of Policy Initiative 1 -- The Heller-Pechman Plan -- Revenue Sharing as Politics -- Lines are Drawn -- 3. Politics of Policy Initiative 2 -- GOP Proposes "Substitute" Revenue Sharing -- GOP Strategy Successes -- Pressures Outside of Congress -- 1968 Election: Revenue Sharing Wins -- 4. Building a Coalition -- Congress Holds Back -- Governors and Mayors: Agreement is Reached -- Plan Goes to Congress -- Pushing the Old; Preparing the New -- Politics Thickens -- 5. New Plan; New Controversies -- Policy Formulation: President and His Staff -- Mobilizing Political Pressure -- Congress Wary on Special Revenue Sharing -- Revenue Sharing Lobby -- Alternative Plans -- 6. Congress Enacts a Law -- The Mills Bill: Politics of Bill Writing -- Revenue Sharing Passes the House -- Senate: Politics of the Sharing Formula -- Final Agreement -- 7. Implementation: Problems and Issues -- Substitution Issue Revived -- Equalization: Data Effects -- Redistribution: Decisional Effects -- A Future View