John Merriman
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195072532
- eISBN:
- 9780199867790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195072532.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This final chapter describes and analyzes the gradual victory of state centralization over recurrent municipal claims of authority over the commissaires de police. It takes as its central example the ...
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This final chapter describes and analyzes the gradual victory of state centralization over recurrent municipal claims of authority over the commissaires de police. It takes as its central example the case of Lyon, then France's second city, where a series of mayors put forth claims that the municipality, which paid the police out of the municipal budget, should be the predominant authority over municipal police, and not the prefect. Toulouse and Strasbourg provide similar examples. In the end, state centralization, and thus the central government and its chief authority in each département, won out.Less
This final chapter describes and analyzes the gradual victory of state centralization over recurrent municipal claims of authority over the commissaires de police. It takes as its central example the case of Lyon, then France's second city, where a series of mayors put forth claims that the municipality, which paid the police out of the municipal budget, should be the predominant authority over municipal police, and not the prefect. Toulouse and Strasbourg provide similar examples. In the end, state centralization, and thus the central government and its chief authority in each département, won out.
Souza Briggs
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262026413
- eISBN:
- 9780262269292
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262026413.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
This chapter discusses how the Coleman Advocates, a civil society organization that is not a mass membership group, helped in making the San Francisco children's movement successful and also played a ...
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This chapter discusses how the Coleman Advocates, a civil society organization that is not a mass membership group, helped in making the San Francisco children's movement successful and also played a role in freeing critical children's services from non-profit patronage politics in San Francisco. The focus of the children's movement on public spending priorities and accountable use of funds helped to make problemsolving a priority rather than constructing a nonprofit empire of child bureaucracies. With the implementation of the Children's Amendment and the strategic leadership of Coleman Advocates, the children's movement mastered the electoral process in the city and also took hold of the municipal budget cycle.Less
This chapter discusses how the Coleman Advocates, a civil society organization that is not a mass membership group, helped in making the San Francisco children's movement successful and also played a role in freeing critical children's services from non-profit patronage politics in San Francisco. The focus of the children's movement on public spending priorities and accountable use of funds helped to make problemsolving a priority rather than constructing a nonprofit empire of child bureaucracies. With the implementation of the Children's Amendment and the strategic leadership of Coleman Advocates, the children's movement mastered the electoral process in the city and also took hold of the municipal budget cycle.
Campbell F. Scribner
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501700804
- eISBN:
- 9781501704116
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501700804.003.0007
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This chapter looks at the tax revolt of the late 1970s, in which states imposed statutory or constitutional restrictions on property taxes, leaving lasting scars on municipal budgets, particularly ...
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This chapter looks at the tax revolt of the late 1970s, in which states imposed statutory or constitutional restrictions on property taxes, leaving lasting scars on municipal budgets, particularly those of school districts. For most states, tax and expenditure limitation offered the most effective solution, promising the lower taxes that conservatives demanded and the greater reliance on state aid that liberals had long advocated. Unfortunately, like most political compromises, tax limitation agreements did not always play out according to expectations. Nominal increases to state funding, for instance, failed to achieve the sort of equalization that liberals envisioned. On the other hand, tax limitation failed to curb teachers' salaries to the degree that conservatives had hoped.Less
This chapter looks at the tax revolt of the late 1970s, in which states imposed statutory or constitutional restrictions on property taxes, leaving lasting scars on municipal budgets, particularly those of school districts. For most states, tax and expenditure limitation offered the most effective solution, promising the lower taxes that conservatives demanded and the greater reliance on state aid that liberals had long advocated. Unfortunately, like most political compromises, tax limitation agreements did not always play out according to expectations. Nominal increases to state funding, for instance, failed to achieve the sort of equalization that liberals envisioned. On the other hand, tax limitation failed to curb teachers' salaries to the degree that conservatives had hoped.
