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Journal Article
Allocation of Responsibilities and Resources among the Three Levels of Government
1965
Overview
There have been many studies of the allocation of responsibilities and services among the various levels of government in the United States, but some of them have not been objective; they have advocated transfers from one level to another because of a desire to be rid of a costly activity. The question of how best to allocate services cannot be separated from the availability of tax resources. But the incidence of the principal taxes in America has shifted radically throughout our history. Services should be allocated on the basis of optimum administrative and policy-making considerations, and architects of these optimum arrangements should demand that the appropriate adjustments be made in the tax structure. A detailed examination of administrative and policy-making realities indicates that a number of changes are in order: (1) the states should extend their control over banking, public and private housing, roads, narcotics, civil rights, natural parks, labor relations, public assistance, elections administration, factory inspection, agriculture, uses of leisure, and intrastate utilities. (2) Fragmentized services like public health and education should be taken out of small districts and administered by units large enough to permit professionalization and specialization. (3) Services which are essentially national in scope, like military training and the regulation of insurance, should be transferred from the states to the federal government. Finally, we should promote an extension program of functional consolidation of local governments.
Publisher
American Academy of Political and Social Science,SAGE Publications,A. L. Hummel for the American Academy of Political and Social Science
