The Policy Termination Process

A Conceptual Framework and Application to Revenue Sharing

Bibliographic Data

ID4074765
AuthorsSusan E Kirkpatrick (University of Northern Colorado), James P Lester (Colorado State University), Mark R Peterson (Colorado State University)
Year1999
Volume16
Issue1
Pages209-238
Publication date1999-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of Policy Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1541-1338.1999.tb00847.x
OpenAlexW2147595762
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited23

The purposes of this article are twofold. First, from a review of the extant literature on termination of policies, programs, and organizations, we identify the "crucial variables" that are believed to affect termination. In doing so, we develop a descriptive model of program termination. Then, we utilize this model as a hueristic device to examine the termination of federal revenue-sharing programs in 1986. After reviewing the available literature on this topic and analyzing the case of revenue-sharing, the article concludes that program termination is affected by three categories of variables: 1) inherent characteristics of the program in question; 2) the political environment within which termination takes place; and 3

Business · Economics · Extant taxon · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Revenue · Revenue sharing · Sociology · Computer Science · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Taxation and Compliance Studies · Finance

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