Christopher B. Goodman
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Assessment quality (1)
Autonomy (1)
Benfords law (1)
Circumvention (1)
Competition (2)
Creation (3)
Decentralization (2)
Dissolution (2)
Emergency management (1)
Expenditures (2)
Financial management (1)
Fiscal health (1)
Fiscal impact (1)
Fragmentation (3)
Growth (1)
House prices (3)
Housing policy (1)
Institutions (1)
Intergovernmental affairs (3)
Issue salience (1)
Labor policy (1)
Local government (2)
Preemption (4)
Property tax (3)
Property tax exemptions (1)
Public employment (1)
Public service provision (1)
Revenue volatility (1)
Special districts (8)
Sprawl (1)
Tax delinquency (1)
Tiebout (1)
Townships (1)
Transportation policy (1)

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Articles

  • Christopher B. Goodman and Megan E. Hatch (forthcoming). “State Preemption and Affordable Housing Policy,” Urban Studies, doi: 10.1177/00420980221135410

    Preemption
    Housing policy
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  • Jahee Jong, Christopher B. Goodman, Aaron Deslatte, Jerry Crabtree and Kurt Thurmaier. (forthcoming). “The Forgotten Governments: Exploring Midwestern Township Capacities and Functional Service Responsibilities,” State and Local Government Review, doi: 10.1177/0160323X221124894

    Townships
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  • Deborah A. Carroll and Christopher B. Goodman (2022). “Neighborhood Institutions and Residential Home Sales: Evaluating the Impact of Property Tax Exemptions,” The Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics 64: 247-273, doi: 10.1007/s11146-020-09808-y4

    Property tax exemptions
    House prices
    Property tax
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  • Christopher B. Goodman (2021). “Political Fragmentation & Economic Growth in U.S. Metropolitan Areas,” Journal of Urban Affairs 43 (9): 1355-1376, doi: 10.1080/07352166.2020.1742578

    Growth
    Decentralization
    Fragmentation
    Competition
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  • Christopher B. Goodman, Megan E. Hatch, and Bruce D. McDonald, III (2021). “State Preemption of Local Laws: Origins and Modern Trends,” Perspectives on Public Management & Governance 4 (2): 146-158, doi: 10.1093/ppmgov/gvaa018

    Preemption
    Intergovernmental affairs
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  • Bruce D. McDonald, III and Christopher B. Goodman (2021). “The Truth about Honesty in the Nonprofit Sector,” Public Administration Quarterly 45 (2): 188-210, doi: 10.37808/paq.45.2.4

    Benfords law
    Financial management
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  • Christopher B. Goodman, Suzanne M. Leland, and Olga Smirnova. (2021). “The Consequences of Specialized Governance on Spending and Expansion of Public Transit,” Local Government Studies 47 (2): 296-311, doi: 10.1080/03003930.2020.1744571

    Special districts
    Issue salience
    Transportation policy
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  • Bruce D. McDonald, III, Christopher B. Goodman, and Megan E. Hatch, (2020). “State Tensions in State-Local Intergovernmental Response to Emergencies: The Case of COVID-19,” State and Local Government Review 52 (3): 186-194, doi: 10.1177/0160323X20979826

    Preemption
    Intergovernmental affairs
    Emergency management
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  • Christopher B. Goodman. (2019). "Local Government Fragmentation: What Do We Know?" State and Local Government Review 51 (2): 134-144, doi: 10.1177/0160323X19856933

    Decentralization
    Fragmentation
    Local government
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  • Christopher B. Goodman (2019) "The Fiscal Impacts of Urban Sprawl: Evidence from U.S. County Areas." Public Budgeting & Finance 39 (4): 3-27., doi: 10.1111/pbaf.12239

    Sprawl
    Expenditures
    Fiscal impact
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  • Christopher B. Goodman and Suzanne M. Leland. (2019). “Do Cities and Counties Attempt to Circumvent Changes in Their Autonomy by Creating Special Districts?,” The American Review of Public Administration 49 (2): 203-217, doi: 10.1177/0275074018804665

    Special districts
    Creation
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  • Christopher B. Goodman (2018). “House Prices and Property Tax Revenues During the Boom and Bust: Evidence from Small-Area Estimates,” Growth & Change, 49 (4): 636-656, doi: 10.1111/grow.12261

    House prices
    Property tax
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  • Christopher B. Goodman. (2018). “Jurisdictional Overlap & the Size of the Local Public Workforce,” State and Local Government Review, 50 (1): 15-23 doi: 10.1177/0160323X18774402

    Public employment
    Tiebout
    Competition
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  • Christopher B. Goodman (2019) "Usage of Specialized Service Delivery: Evidence from Contiguous Counties." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 48 (4): 686-708, doi: 10.1093/publius/pjx065

    Special districts
    Autonomy
    Circumvention
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  • Deborah A. Carroll and Christopher B. Goodman (2019) "Assessing the Influence of Property Tax Delinquency and Foreclosures on Residential Property Sales." Urban Affairs Review 53 (5): 898-923, doi: 10.1177/1078087416678339

    House prices
    Tax delinquency
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  • Christopher B. Goodman. (2015). “Local Government Fragmentation and the Local Public Sector: A Panel Data Analysis" Public Finance Review 43 (1): 82-107, doi: 10.1177/1091142113515048

    Fragmentation
    Expenditures
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  • Christopher B. Goodman and Suzanne M. Leland. (2013). “Cost shocks and their relationship to the creation, consolidation and dissolution of US local governments,” Public Finance & Management 13 (2): 58-79

    Special districts
    Creation
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  • Deborah A. Carroll and Christopher B. Goodman (2011). “The Effects of Assessment Quality on Revenue Volatility,” Public Budgeting & Finance 31 (1): 76–94, doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5850.2011.00975.x

    Property tax
    Assessment quality
    Revenue volatility
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Working Papers

  • Christopher B. Goodman and Deborah A. Carroll. “Are Special Districts Strategic Complements or Strategic Substitutes?”

    Special districts
    Public service provision
    Local government
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  • Christopher B. Goodman and Suzanne M. Leland. “What Lies Beneath these Creatures of the State: Understanding the Birth and Death of U.S. Local Governments”

    Special districts
    Dissolution
    Intergovernmental affairs
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  • Christopher B. Goodman. “Patterns in Special District Creation and Dissolution”

    Special districts
    Dissolution
    Creation
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  • Christopher B. Goodman and Megan E. Hatch. “State Legislative Ideology & the Preemption of City Ordinances: The Case of Worker Rights Laws”

    Preemption
    Labor policy
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Book Chapters

  • Christopher B. Goodman. (2022). "The Role of Special Districts and Intergovernmental Constraints." In Research Handbook on City and Municipal Finance, edited by Justin M. Ross, Temu Moldogazı, and Craig L. Johnson. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing

    Special districts
    Institutions
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  • Deborah A. Carroll and Christopher B. Goodman. (2012). "Understanding and Measuring Elasticity, Volatility, and Implications for Local Government Fiscal Health." In Handbook of Local Government Fiscal Health, edited by Jonathan B. Justice, Helisse Levine, and Eric Scorsone. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, Inc.

    Fiscal health
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