Resource for State and Local Finances - The State and Local Relationship in California: A Changing Balance of Power

The Public Policy Institute of California researched the history of the friction between California’s state and local governments and how it has shaped fiscal policy and conflicts throughout the century. In The State-Local Fiscal Relationship in California: A Changing Balance of Power, J. Fred Silva and Elisa Barbour place such conflicts in a useful historical context.(October 2011)