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Wrestling With Muds To Pin Down The Truth About Special Districts, Sara C. Bronin
Wrestling With Muds To Pin Down The Truth About Special Districts, Sara C. Bronin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Federal, state, and local governments encourage and empower special districts—board-run, special purpose local government units that are administratively and fiscally independent from general purpose local governments. Special districts receive incentives, grants, and freedom from limitations (such as limitations on tax and debt) imposed on general purpose local governments. Special districts are treated favorably because they are small in size, which theoretically means they foster democratic participation; are limited in purpose, meaning that states can tailor the special districts' powers to serve specific problems; and are viewed as efficient solutions to specific problems. Though special districts have tripled in number over …