Essays on municipal finance in Ontario from a historical perspective

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dc.contributor.advisorEmery, J. C. Herbert
dc.contributor.authorTassonyi, Almos Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-18T22:14:23Z
dc.date.available2017-12-18T22:14:23Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 316-336en
dc.descriptionA few pages are in colour.en
dc.description.abstractThe economic history of municipal finance in Ontario has been neglected. This dissertation consists of three essays that together address the development of the municipal fisc and assess the impact of the Great Depression on municipal finance in Ontario and the fiscal response of municipalities to the crisis. The crisis was a "defining moment" fiscally for municipalities in Ontario and in intergovernmental fiscal relations between the Province and municipalities. The first essay describes the development of the Ontario municipal fiscal system as a whole to 1941. The second essay focuses on the process of transition from a relatively soft budget constraint facing municipalities prior to the Great Depression to a relatively hard hierarchical constraint imposed by the Province as a crisis response. Hard hierarchical constraints have subsequently been reinforced by market forces and continue to persist. The third essay assesses the evidence that municipal spending and taxing decisions were adversely affected by pressure to finance education and both mandatory and discretionary municipal services in the context of a shared and weakened property tax base. Together, the three show the development of municipal fiscal capacity to meet the demands of an increasingly urbanized population and assess the "squeeze" on this capacity that arose from the general economic conditions of the Great Depression, affecting a narrow tax base combined with the mandatory financing of public education and poor relief. The essays also show that a lasting legacy of institutional development was also created.
dc.format.extentxvii, 336 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier.citationTassonyi, A. T. (2010). Essays on municipal finance in Ontario from a historical perspective (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3873en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/3873
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/104874
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
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dc.titleEssays on municipal finance in Ontario from a historical perspective
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEconomics
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 1972 627942815
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