Eric Scorsone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4387384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Scorsone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Scorsone |
| SIGNATURE | SCORSONE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4928-9290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Impact of Governance on Poverty and Unemployment Control Before and After the Covid Outbreak in the United States
Covid-19 presents many social and economic challenges and exacerbates existing ones. One of these challenges is global poverty. Prior to the epidemic, poverty affected the rural population traditionally. Global poverty can spread to urban areas now with COVID-19 outbreak. Poverty increased in the United States in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak, affecting the economy and rising unemployment. New figures confirm that the recession may have widene…
The Municipal Fiscal Crisis
Journal Article The Municipal Fiscal Crisis: A Framework for Understanding and Fixing Government Budgeting, by Mark Moses Get access The Municipal Fiscal Crisis: A Framework for Understanding and Fixing Government Budgeting, by Mark Moses. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 184 pp. $49.99 paperback. Eric Scorsone Eric Scorsone Michigan State University, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
The Legal Foundations of Micro-Institutional Performance
The aim of The Legal Foundations of Micro-Institutional Performance is to introduce the reader to a different way of thinking about economics that will allow them to both understand and apply legal concepts to economic analysis. To this end, it adopts and further develops Wesley Hohfeld's legal framework of jural (legal) relations as a tool of analysis. This analytical tool, as built into the Legal-Economic Performance framework, provides specifi…
Blamed for Incompetence and Lack of Foresight and Left to Die’
NotesSee Inman (Citation) for an excellent review of the flypaper effect.The Roemer-Silvestre model is based on a political economy model that includes competing political parties that is representative of real decision making in local governments. The traditional flypaper effect model was based on a median voter approach with no real political dimension and claimed that the effect was an “anomaly.”The tax base does not include non-wage income su…
Cost ramifications of municipal consolidation
In 2001, the first municipal consolidation occurred in over 100 years in Michigan between two cities and one village in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula, forming the City of Iron River. The three units of government combined to have a population of 3,391 within the newly incorporated boundaries. Driving the consolidation was continual population loss and erosion of the economic tax base of the individual municipal governments since the 1960s. Thi…
How Much Power to Tax do Regional Governments Enjoy in Spain Since the 1996 and 2001 Reforms
From 1979 to 1983, a new intermediate level of government was created in Spain. This article focuses on the financial aspects of political decentralization in Spain. How much power to tax do the new regional parliaments and executives enjoy? What other sources of income do they dispose of? Which rules have been settled for regulating their tax and non-tax sources of income? Has fiscal decentralization affected fiscal discipline? Are these governm…
Comparing local governments' performance internationally
While some attempt has been made to address cross-national trends in performance measurement systems (PMSs) in local governments, very few systemic efforts have been attempted to uncover similarities and differences. This article seeks to advance the understanding of the variables researchers should consider when comparing the adoption characteristics and process of PMSs across countries at the local level. Specifically, a framework is constructe…
Comparing local governments' performance internationally
While some attempt has been made to address cross-national trends in performance measurement systems (PMSs) in local governments, very few systemic efforts have been attempted to uncover similarities and differences. This article seeks to advance the understanding of the variables researchers should consider when comparing the adoption characteristics and process of PMSs across countries at the local level. Specifically, a framework is constructe…
The Impact of Governance on Poverty and Unemployment Control Before and After the Covid Outbreak in the United States
Covid-19 presents many social and economic challenges and exacerbates existing ones. One of these challenges is global poverty. Prior to the epidemic, poverty affected the rural population traditionally. Global poverty can spread to urban areas now with COVID-19 outbreak. Poverty increased in the United States in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak, affecting the economy and rising unemployment. New figures confirm that the recession may have widene…
Comparing local governments' performance internationally
While some attempt has been made to address cross-national trends in performance measurement systems (PMSs) in local governments, very few systemic efforts have been attempted to uncover similarities and differences. This article seeks to advance the understanding of the variables researchers should consider when comparing the adoption characteristics and process of PMSs across countries at the local level. Specifically, a framework is constructe…
How Much Power to Tax do Regional Governments Enjoy in Spain Since the 1996 and 2001 Reforms
From 1979 to 1983, a new intermediate level of government was created in Spain. This article focuses on the financial aspects of political decentralization in Spain. How much power to tax do the new regional parliaments and executives enjoy? What other sources of income do they dispose of? Which rules have been settled for regulating their tax and non-tax sources of income? Has fiscal decentralization affected fiscal discipline? Are these governm…
Cost ramifications of municipal consolidation
In 2001, the first municipal consolidation occurred in over 100 years in Michigan between two cities and one village in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula, forming the City of Iron River. The three units of government combined to have a population of 3,391 within the newly incorporated boundaries. Driving the consolidation was continual population loss and erosion of the economic tax base of the individual municipal governments since the 1960s. Thi…
Blamed for Incompetence and Lack of Foresight and Left to Die’
NotesSee Inman (Citation) for an excellent review of the flypaper effect.The Roemer-Silvestre model is based on a political economy model that includes competing political parties that is representative of real decision making in local governments. The traditional flypaper effect model was based on a median voter approach with no real political dimension and claimed that the effect was an “anomaly.”The tax base does not include non-wage income su…
The Legal Foundations of Micro-Institutional Performance
The aim of The Legal Foundations of Micro-Institutional Performance is to introduce the reader to a different way of thinking about economics that will allow them to both understand and apply legal concepts to economic analysis. To this end, it adopts and further develops Wesley Hohfeld's legal framework of jural (legal) relations as a tool of analysis. This analytical tool, as built into the Legal-Economic Performance framework, provides specifi…
The Impact of Governance on Poverty and Unemployment Control Before and After the Covid Outbreak in the United States
Covid-19 presents many social and economic challenges and exacerbates existing ones. One of these challenges is global poverty. Prior to the epidemic, poverty affected the rural population traditionally. Global poverty can spread to urban areas now with COVID-19 outbreak. Poverty increased in the United States in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak, affecting the economy and rising unemployment. New figures confirm that the recession may have widene…
The Municipal Fiscal Crisis
Journal Article The Municipal Fiscal Crisis: A Framework for Understanding and Fixing Government Budgeting, by Mark Moses Get access The Municipal Fiscal Crisis: A Framework for Understanding and Fixing Government Budgeting, by Mark Moses. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 184 pp. $49.99 paperback. Eric Scorsone Eric Scorsone Michigan State University, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (3 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Accounting (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Law (2 works)