| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 221 p.) |
| Contents |
Statehood and Leviathan -- New Mexico's rocky fiscal road to statehood -- Arizona's rocky fiscal road to statehood -- The statehood gamble -- The birth of Leviathan -- Accountability and statehood -- The talk: management's discussion and analysis -- Accountants at the service of the state: reforming property tax administration -- Funds, assets, liabilities, fiscal years, and report timing -- Interfund transfers, federal subsidies, revenues and expenditures, tax rates, and budgets -- The elements of accountability -- Conclusion: statehood and accountability, Leviathan and accountants |
| Summary |
In "The Fiscal Case against Statehood", Stephanie D. Moussalli investigates the territorial residents' fears that statehood will be expensive and examines the frontier development of government accounting practices. Moussalli analyzes financial reports from New Mexico and Arizona from the 1880s to the 1920s and finds a significant increase in the cost of government as well as an improvement in the governments' accountability for their use of the public purse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 199-214) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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Finance, Public -- New Mexico -- History
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Finance, Public -- Arizona -- History
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Statehood (American politics) -- History
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State governments -- United States -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance.
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Expenditures, Public
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Finance, Public
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Politics and government
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State governments
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Statehood (American politics)
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| SUBJECT |
New Mexico -- Appropriations and expenditures -- History
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Arizona -- Appropriations and expenditures -- History
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New Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1848-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091375
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Arizona -- Politics and government -- To 1950.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007191
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United States -- Territories and possessions -- History
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Arizona
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New Mexico
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021678695 |
| ISBN |
9780739167007 |
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0739167006 |
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9786613636126 |
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6613636126 |
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