Fiscal Limitations to Government Crisis Response: The Municipal Experience in Responding to Infrastructure Failure
| dc.contributor.author | Stewart, Veronika | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-22T00:49:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-22T00:49:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-01-27 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Key messages • Government response to crises is limited by structural factors, including imperfect economic forecasting, preference for status quo, and short-term political cycles. • Municipalities face significant financial constraints in crisis management due to limited revenue sources, reliance on regressive property taxes, and restrictions on borrowing. • Local governments heavily depend on intergovernmental transfers, which can be unreliable and restrictive for crisis prevention and management. • The infrastructure crisis in Canada, exemplified by Prince Rupert's water system failure, highlights the fiscal limitations of local governments in addressing predictable crises. • Recommendations to improve municipal crisis response include broadening taxation powers, increasing intergovernmental transfers, and granting more financial flexibility to local governments. | |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Stewart, Veronika (2025). Fiscal Limitations to Government Crisis Response: The Municipal Experience in Responding to Infrastructure Failure, Local Governance Hub Policy Briefs, No 2, pgs. 1-5. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/21338 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Local Governance Hub | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 1 | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Fiscal Limitations to Government Crisis Response: The Municipal Experience in Responding to Infrastructure Failure | |
| dc.type | Other |