Robert M Berne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4450626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Berne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Berne |
| SIGNATURE | BERNE R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
School Finance Court Cases and Disparate Racial Impact
Although analyses of state school finance systems rarely focus on the distribution of funds to students of different races, the advent of racial discrimination as an issue in school finance court cases may change that situation. In this article, we describe the background, analyses, and results of plaintiffs’ testimony regarding racial discrimination in Campaign for Fiscal Equity Inc. v. State of New York. Plaintiffs employed multiple regression …
Teaching the new basic skills
Teaching the new basic skills
Teaching the new basic skills
What Is Financial Management? Are We Inventing a New Field Here
Cutback Budgeting
This study asks whether short-term cutbacks made during a fiscal crisis become permanent once fiscal conditions improve. Hypotheses are developed to establish a framework for analyzing a time-series data set. These hypotheses address trade-offs between less essential versus more essential services, salaries versus positions, and capital versus operating expenditures. Then long-term consequences are assessed with a longitudinal, comparative case s…
Taxing over Tax Limits
It is generally thought that across-the-board tax limits, while encouraging fiscal restraint, create hardships for jurisdictions with above average and uncontrollable needs. Because of the recent imposition of most limits, the conclusion is difficult to confirm empirically. This article provides a test of the conclusion based on a study of New York State city school districts where limits long in effect were suspended between 1970 and 1978 becaus…
The equity effects of state school finance reforms
Social Science Research and School Finance Policy
The Expenditure-Financing Decision in British Local Government
Using British data from the past two decades, this essay deals with two inadequacies in much of the analysis of local government spending. The first is that spending alone does not represent the full complexity of any official decision for it fails to relate spending decision to revenues. The second is that political influence is brought to bear on both these dimensions of the expenditure finance decision. Economic decline in many of the industri…
Cutback Budgeting
This study asks whether short-term cutbacks made during a fiscal crisis become permanent once fiscal conditions improve. Hypotheses are developed to establish a framework for analyzing a time-series data set. These hypotheses address trade-offs between less essential versus more essential services, salaries versus positions, and capital versus operating expenditures. Then long-term consequences are assessed with a longitudinal, comparative case s…
The Expenditure-Financing Decision in British Local Government
Using British data from the past two decades, this essay deals with two inadequacies in much of the analysis of local government spending. The first is that spending alone does not represent the full complexity of any official decision for it fails to relate spending decision to revenues. The second is that political influence is brought to bear on both these dimensions of the expenditure finance decision. Economic decline in many of the industri…
What Is Financial Management? Are We Inventing a New Field Here
School Finance Court Cases and Disparate Racial Impact
Although analyses of state school finance systems rarely focus on the distribution of funds to students of different races, the advent of racial discrimination as an issue in school finance court cases may change that situation. In this article, we describe the background, analyses, and results of plaintiffs’ testimony regarding racial discrimination in Campaign for Fiscal Equity Inc. v. State of New York. Plaintiffs employed multiple regression …
Taxing over Tax Limits
It is generally thought that across-the-board tax limits, while encouraging fiscal restraint, create hardships for jurisdictions with above average and uncontrollable needs. Because of the recent imposition of most limits, the conclusion is difficult to confirm empirically. This article provides a test of the conclusion based on a study of New York State city school districts where limits long in effect were suspended between 1970 and 1978 becaus…
The equity effects of state school finance reforms
The Expenditure-Financing Decision in British Local Government
Using British data from the past two decades, this essay deals with two inadequacies in much of the analysis of local government spending. The first is that spending alone does not represent the full complexity of any official decision for it fails to relate spending decision to revenues. The second is that political influence is brought to bear on both these dimensions of the expenditure finance decision. Economic decline in many of the industri…
Social Science Research and School Finance Policy
Taxing over Tax Limits
It is generally thought that across-the-board tax limits, while encouraging fiscal restraint, create hardships for jurisdictions with above average and uncontrollable needs. Because of the recent imposition of most limits, the conclusion is difficult to confirm empirically. This article provides a test of the conclusion based on a study of New York State city school districts where limits long in effect were suspended between 1970 and 1978 becaus…
The equity effects of state school finance reforms
Cutback Budgeting
This study asks whether short-term cutbacks made during a fiscal crisis become permanent once fiscal conditions improve. Hypotheses are developed to establish a framework for analyzing a time-series data set. These hypotheses address trade-offs between less essential versus more essential services, salaries versus positions, and capital versus operating expenditures. Then long-term consequences are assessed with a longitudinal, comparative case s…
What Is Financial Management? Are We Inventing a New Field Here
Teaching the new basic skills
Teaching the new basic skills
Teaching the new basic skills
School Finance Court Cases and Disparate Racial Impact
Although analyses of state school finance systems rarely focus on the distribution of funds to students of different races, the advent of racial discrimination as an issue in school finance court cases may change that situation. In this article, we describe the background, analyses, and results of plaintiffs’ testimony regarding racial discrimination in Campaign for Fiscal Equity Inc. v. State of New York. Plaintiffs employed multiple regression …
Economics (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Education Systems and Policy (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (3 works) · Public economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Actuarial science (2 works)