Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management: Volume 16 Issue 4

Privatization of government services: an overview and review of the literature

Richard C. Brooks

Privatization continues to receive serious consideration at the federal, state, and local government levels. The most frequent reason cited for privatizing services is to reduce…

The determinants of the municipal debt policy in Spain

Bernardino Benito, Francisco Bastida

This paper analyzes the impact of economic, social and political factors on municipal debt behavior. With this aim, we have obtained a stratified random sample of 130 cities…

Symposium introduction

Rodney E. Stanley

The lottery, educatiion, and the southern states: a measure of utility in per pupil expenditures among lottery states in the south

Rodney E. Stanley, P. Edward French

State operated lotteries have recently been asserted by public administrators and academicians as panaceas for eradicating revenue disparities existing across public school…

Measuring the impact of casino proceeds on total per pupil expenditures for education in Mississippi

P. Edward French, Rodney E. Stanley

The Mississippi Legislature adopted casino gaming in 1990 for the purpose of curing financial ills that have long plagued the Magnolia state. Local policy makers were given the…

The recent adoption of the voluntary tax in the volunteer state

P. Edward French, Rodney E. Stanley

The purpose of this research is to explain the adoption of lottery policies among counties in Tennessee. Various socio-demographic variables were measured through the use of…