The Influence of Federal Grants Public Assistance in Massachusetts

Gray cloth with black lettering. Spine cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, owner's name on front end paper. Neat underlining on a few pages, but text is not obscured. Jacket is price clipped, spine and top edge sunned, a little edge wear. ;
x + 285 pp, index, notes. ; 7 " X 9 "; 285 pages; "While debate goes on over how governmental functions in the federal system ought to be divided, legislatures and bureaucracies do their daily work and thereby decide, often without anyone's realizing it, how such functions will be divided in fact. This book examines the processes by which this is done: It shows the American federal system at work.
"Much of this country's public business is carried out through federal grants to state and local governments, a practice that grows with use and still remains controversial. Because they are accompanied by federal conditions and administrative supervision, grants raise the issue of federal influence in state and local affairs. Critics charge that they result in 'federal control' and hence undermine the role of state and local governments; defenders deny this, and argue instead that federal help saves state and local governments from their own incapacity. Miss Derthick's purpose is to find out what the facts of the matter are. "

Product Info

ISBN: 0674454251

ISBN-13: 9780674454255

Publisher: Harvard University

Year: 1970

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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