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- Title
Approaches to Municipal Takeover.
- Authors
Nickels, Ashley E.
- Abstract
Municipal takeovers proceed by a state declaring that a municipality is in fiscal crisis and placing it in receivership, handing over most local processes to a state-appointed manager. This policy of aggressive state intervention calls into question two principles of local autonomy enshrined in home rule: that allowing local matters to be handled by local authority removes the need for state special legislation and that giving local governments functional autonomy allows them to solve problems without state intervention. This article presents case studies of New Jersey and Michigan to examine differences in home rule protection as well as approaches to municipal takeover.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MUNICIPAL home rule; INTERVENTION (Federal government); FEDERAL-city relations
- Publication
State & Local Government Review, 2016, Vol 48, Issue 3, p194
- ISSN
0160-323X
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1177/0160323X16667990