From an economist's perspective, the fiscal and administrative goals of the so-called “devolution revolution” include less federal intergovernmental aid, especially if fiscally equalizing; the substitution of block grants for matching grants; greater administrative flexibility for the...

During its lifetime, the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations periodically published estimates of each state's relative fiscal capacity. This research note provides new estimates updated to fiscal year 1994, the latest year for which all requisite underlying data are...