nmm 22 4500 ICPSR08709 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130521s1990 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR08709 MiAaI MiAaI United States Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project, 1983-1984 [electronic resource] Terry Nichols, et al. Clark 2006-01-12 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 1990 ICPSR 8709 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-21. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions. Also available as downloadable files. For this data collection, mayors, city council finance committee chairs, and chief administrative officers/city managers in all United States cities with populations over 25,000 were surveyed. Topics covered include the relative importance of professional as opposed to elected officials in fiscal management, and preferences for and implementation of changes in spending levels in 13 policy areas (e.g., education, social welfare, streets, and police protection). Respondents also were queried about policy preferences, activities, and impact on city government of 20 groups (including employees, business groups, local media, the elderly, city finance staff, and federal and state agencies). In addition, questions were asked on city finance problems (e.g., loss of federal or state revenue, declining tax base, and pressures from municipal employees), fiscal management strategies the city had used (e.g., contracting out, user fees, privatization), revenue forecasting, integrated financial management systems, performance measures, management rights, and level of sophistication of economic development analyses. Background information on mayors includes terms served, years spent in elected office, political party identification, use of local media, age, ethnicity/race, sex, religious preference, and education. In addition to the survey data, detailed structural data on population, economic structures, industry, and the labor force are provided. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08709.v1 administrators icpsr economic development icpsr economic forecasting icpsr education icpsr expenditures icpsr financial management icpsr local government icpsr management icpsr police protection icpsr policy analysis icpsr privatization icpsr public officials icpsr social welfare icpsr ICPSR II.A.1. Community and Urban Studies, Studies of Local Politics, United States Clark, Terry Nichols, et al. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 8709 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08709.v1