The Changing Politics of Federal Grants
Brown, Lawrence D. / Fossett, James W. / Palmer, Kenneth T.
The design and use of federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments have posed policy choices for every presidential administration since that of Lyndon B. Johnson. The papers in this volume describe the decisions these administrations have made, analyze why only some of these choices prevailed politically, and explain how large amounts of federal aid have affected local governments.
These studies mark the final chapter in a major resea...