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Commission Surveys

1990:

• S-23 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1994
• S-22 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1993
• S-21 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1992
• S-20 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1991
• S-19 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1990

1980:

• S-18 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1989
• S-17 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1988
• S-16 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1987
• S-15 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1986
• S-14 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1985
• S-13 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1984
• S-12 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1983
• S-11 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1982
• S-10 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1981
• S-9 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1980

1970:

• S-8 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1979
• S-7 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1978
• S-6 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1977
• S-5 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1976
• S-4 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1975
• S-3 A Commission Survey* Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes 1973
• S-2 Revenue Sharing and Taxes: a Survey of Public Attitude
• S-1 Public Opinion and Taxes

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Information Reports

1990:

• M-196: Federal Court Rulings Involving State, Local, and Tribal Governments. Calendar Year 1994.
• M-195: Characteristics of Federal Grant-In-Aid Programs to State and Local Governments: Grants Funded FY 1995
• M-194: Tax and expenditure limits on local governments
• M-193: Federally induced costs affecting state and local governments
• M-192: Local government responsibilities in health care.
• M-191: Planning to Govern
• M-189: Revenue Diversification: State and Local Travel Taxes
• M-188: Characteristics of federal grant-in-aid programs to state and local governments: Grants funded fiscal year 1993.
• M-187: RTS 1991: State revenue capacity and effort
• M-186: State laws governing local government structure and administration.
• M-184: Guide to the criminal justice system for general government elected officials. 
• M-183: Local boundary commissions: Status and roles in forming, adjusting, and dissolving local government boundaries.
• M-182: Characteristics of federal grant-in-aid programs to state and local governments [microform]; grants funded fiscal year 1991, 1992, 1993.
• M-181: Metropolitan organization: The Allegheny County case.
• M-179:  State taxation of interstate mail order sales [microform]: estimates of revenue potential, 1990-1992.
• M-178: The changing public sector [microform]: Shifts in governmental spending and employment.
• M-177: Interjurisdictional tax and policy competition: Good or bad for the federal system?
• M-175: The structure of state aid to elementary and secondary education.
• M-174: Representative expenditures: Addressing the neglected dimension of fiscal capacity
• M-173: Mandates, cases in state-local relations.
• M-172: State constitutional law: Cases and materials, 1990-91 supplement.
• M-171: The volume cap for tax-exempt private-activity bonds: State and local  experience in 1989.
• M-170: 1988 State fiscal capacity and effort.

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1980:   

• M-168: State taxation of banks: Issues and options.
• M-167: A Catalog of Federal Grant-In-Aid Programs to State and Local Governments: Grants Funded FY 1989
• M-166: Residential Community Associations: Questions and Answers for Public Officials
• M-165: 1986 State fiscal capacity and effort
• M-164: Hearings on Constitutional Reform of Federalism: Statements by State and Local Government Association Representatives
• M-162: State and federal regulation of banking: A roundtable discussion
• M-161: Assisting the homeless: State and local responses in an era of limited resources. (Papers from a policy conference sponsored by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.)
• M-160: Devolution of federal aid highway programs: Cases in state-local relations and issues in state law.
• M-159: State constitutional law: Cases and materials.
• M-159S: State constitutional law: Cases and materials, with 1990-91 supplement.
• M-158: Metropolitan organization: the St. Louis case.
• M-157: Interjurisdictional Competition in the Federal System:
• M-156: Measuring state fiscal capacity, 1987 edition.
• M-154: Is Constitutional Reform Necessary to Reinvigorate Federalism? : A Roundtable Discussion
• M-153: A catalog of federal grant-in-aid programs to state and local governments. Fiscal year 1987.
• M-152: Federalism and the Constitution: A symposium on Garcia.
• M-150: Measuring state fiscal capacity: Alternative methods and their uses.
• M-149: A framework for studying the controversy concerning the federal courts and federalism
• M-148: 1983 Tax capacity of the states.
• M-147: Reflections on Garcia and its implications for federalism.
• M-144: The condition of American federalism: Hearings held in ACIR’s 25th anniversary year.
• M-143: Emerging Issues in American Federalism: Papers Prepared for ACIR's 25th Anniversary
• M-142: 1982 Tax Capacity of the Fifty States
• M-140: The states and distressed communities: State programs to aid distressed communities. Catalog of state programs, 1983.
• M-139: A catalog of federal grant-in-aid programs to state and local governments: Grants funded FY 1984
• M-138: Fiscal Disparities: Central Cities & Suburbs, 1981
• M-136: The States and Distressed Communities: The 1982 Report
• M-134: Tax Capacity of the Fifty States: Methodology and Estimates
• M-133CAT: A Catalog of Federal Grant-In-Aid Programs to State and Local Governments: Grants Funded FY 1981
• M-133: The States and Distressed Communities: The 1981 Report
• M-131: Measuring Local Discretionary Authority
• M-130: Studies in Comparative Federalism: Australia, Canada, the United States and West Germany
• M-129: Studies in Comparative Federalism: Australia
• M-128: Studies in Comparative Federalism: West Germany
• M-127: Studies in Comparative Federalism: Canada
• M-126: The Future of Federalism in the 1980s
• M-125: The States and Distressed Communities: The 1980 Annual Report
• M-124: State-Local Relations Bodies: State ACIRs and Other Approaches
• M-122: Awakening the Slumbering Giant: Intergovernmental Relations and Federal Grant Law
• M-121: The State of State-Local Revenue Sharing
• M-120: State administrators’ opinions on administrative change, federal aid, federal relationships
• M-119: Central city- suburban fiscal disparity and city distress, 1977
• M-118: Recent Trends in Federal and State Aid to Local Governments
• M-117: The Inflation Tax: The Case for Indexing Federal and State Income Taxes

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1970:      

• M-116: State community assistance initiatives: Innovations of the late 70s,
• M-114: The Michigan single business tax: A different approach to state business taxation,
• M-112: Understanding state and local cash management,
• M-111: Measuring the fiscal blood pressure of the states 1964-1975,
• M-109: State actions in 1976.
• M-108: Trends in metropolitan America, 
• M-107: Improving urban America: A challenge to federalism.
• M-106: Significant features of fiscal federalism- 1976 edition: Part 1. Trends
• M-105: Pragmatic federalism: The reassignment of functional responsibility, 
• M-104: Understanding the market for state and local debt.
• M-103:  In respect to realities: A report on federalism in 1975
• M-102: State actions in 1975.
• M-101: ACIR State Legislative Program 10. Criminal Justice
• M-100: ACIR State Legislative Program 9. Education
• M-99: ACIR State Legislative Program 8. Health
• M-98: ACIR State Legislative Program: 7. Transportation
• M-97: Housing and community development. [Revised edition.]
• M-96: Environment, land use, and growth policy.
• M-95: Fiscal and personnel management.
• M-94: State and local revenues.
• M-93. Local government modernization.
• M-92: ACIR State Legislative Program: 1. State Government Structure and Processes
• M-91: ACIR State Legislative Program : A Guide
• M-90: State Actions in 1974: Building on Innovation
• M-89: Federalism in 1974: The Tension of Interdependence
• M-88: Sixteenth Annual Report
• M-87: Property Tax Circuit-Breakers : Current Status and Policy Issues
• M-86: Trends in fiscal federalism 1954-74
• M-85: American federalism: Into the 3rd century, its agenda.
• M-84: The Expenditure Tax: Concept, Administration and Possible Applications
• M-83: Property tax in changing environment: Selected state studies.
• M-82: State Actions 1973: Toward Full Stewardship
• M-81: Federalism in 1973: The System Under Stress
• M-80: Fifteenth Annual Report
• M-79: Federal-state-local finances: Significant features of fiscal federalism. [1973-74 edition].
• M-78: Value-added tax and alternative sources of federal revenue,
• M-77: State Action on Local Problems 1972
• M-76: [Fourteenth Annual Report] Striking a Better Balance : Federalism in 1972
• M-75: State Action on Local Problems 1971
• M-74: State-local finances and suggested legislation
• M-73: [Thirteenth Annual Report] Striking a Better Balance : Federalism in 1971
• M-72: Profile of County Government
• M-71: The New Grass Roots Movement ?: Decentralization and Citizen…
• M-70: Special Revenue Sharing: An Analysis of the Administration’s Grant Consolidation Proposals
• M-69: Who Should Pay for Public Schools? : Report of The Conference on State Financing of Public Schools
• M-68: In Search of Balance – Canada’s Intergovernmental Experience
• M-67: ACIR State Legislative Program [New Proposals for 1972]
• M-66: For a More Perfect Union : Prosecution Reform
• M-65: For a More Perfect Union: Police Reform
• M-64: For a More Perfect Union : Correctional Reform
• M-63: For a More Perfect Union : Court Reform
• M-62: The Quest for environmental Quality: Federal and State Action, 1969-70 Annotated Bibliography
• M-61: For a More Perfect Union : County Reform
• M-60: State Action on Local Problems - 1970
• M-59: Twelfth Annual Report January 31, 1971
• M-58R: Measuring the Fiscal Capacity and Effort of State and Local Areas (revision)
• M-58: Measuring the fiscal capacity and effort of state and local areas.
• M-57: State- Local Finances and Suggested Legislation [1971 edition]
• M-56: A State Response to Urban Problems: Recent Experience Under the “Buying In” Approach  [a staff analysis]
• M-55: State Involvement in Federal-Local Grant Programs: A Case Study of the “Buying In” Approach
• M-54: Revenue Sharing – An Idea Whose Time Has Come
• M-53: New Proposals for 1971
• M-52: The Gap Between Federal Aid Authorizations and Appropriations: Fiscal Years 1966-1970
• M-51: The Commuter and the Municipal Income Tax [A Background Paper]
• M-50: State and Local Finances: Significant Features 1967 to 1970
• M-49: Eleventh Annual Report [January 31, 1970]

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1960:   

• M-48: ACIR State Legislative Program [1970 Cumulative]
• M-47: Urban America and the Federal…
• M-46: The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (pamphlet)
• M-45: New proposals for 1970, ACIR state legislative program
• M-44: Federalism and the Academic Community : A Brief Survey
• M-43: State and Local Finances Significant Features 1966 to 1969
• M-42: Tenth Annual Report
• M-41: Sources of Increased State Tax Collections: Economic Growth vs Political Choice
• M-39: ACIR State Legislative Program [New Proposals for 1969]
• M-38: State Legislative and Constitutional Action on Urban Problems in 1967
• M-37: State and Local Taxes Significant Features 1968
• M-36: Ninth Annual Report.
• M-35: 1968 State legislative program on Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• M-34: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 8th Annual report.
• M-33: State legislative program of Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• M-32: Information report, metropolitan councils of governments.
• M-31:  Metropolitan America: Challenge to federalism. Commission findings and proposals.
• M-30: Catalogs and other information sources on federal and state aid programs: A selected bibliography.
• M-29: Handbook for interlocal agreements and contracts
• M-28: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 7th Annual report.  
• M-27: 1966 State legislation program of Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
• M-26: State Technical Assistance to Local Debt Management
• M-25: Sixth Annual Report
• M-24: 1965 State legislative program of Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
• M-23-Suppl.: Tax overlapping in the United States, selected tables updated, 1967. (Supplement to M-23)
• M-23: Tax Overlapping in the United States 1964
• M-22: Fifth Annual Report [1964]
• M-21-Rev.: Performance of urban functions, local and areawide
• M-21: Performance of urban functions, local and areawide [with bibliography].
• M-20: State Legislative Program…1963
• M-19: Fourth Annual Report [1963]
• M-18: Directory of Federal Statistics for Metropolitan Areas
• M-17-1968: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, August 1968
• M-17-1967: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, May 1, 1967
• M-17-1965: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, June 1, 1965
• M-17-1964: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, August 1, 1964
• M-16: Measures of State and Local Fiscal Capacity and Tax Effort
• M-15: Factors Affecting Voter Reactions to Governmental Reorganization in Metropolitan Areas
• M-15: [Summary] Factors Affecting Voter Reactions to Governmental Reorganization in Metropolitan Areas
• M-14: Third Annual Report [1962]
• M-13: Major State Tax Changes Enacted in 1961
• M-11: Tax Overlapping in the United States 1961
• M-5: Local Non-Property Tax Sources
• M-3: Comparative summary of recommendations on intergovernmental relations by previous commissions and study groups.
• M-2: Second Annual Report [1961]

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Policy Reports

1990:

• A-130: MPO capacity: Improving the capacity of metropolitan planning organizations to help implement national transportation policies.
• A-129: Federal mandate relief for state, local, and tribal governments.
• A-127: Local government autonomy: Needs for state constitutional, statutory, and judicial clarification.
• A-126: Federal regulation of state and local governments: The mixed records of the 1980s. Commission report
• A-125: The role of general government elected officials in criminal justice.
• A-124: The National Guard: Defending the nation and the states.
• A-123: State solvency regulation of property-casualty and life insurance companies. Commission report.
• A-122: Intergovernmental decision making for environmental protection and public works. Commission report.
• A-121: Federal statutory preemption of state and local authority: History, inventory, and issues. Commission report.
• A-120: Toward a federal infrastructure strategy: Issues and options.
• A-119: Medicaid: Intergovernmental trends and opinions.
• A-118: Coordinating water resources in the federal system: The groundwater-surface water connection.
• A-117D: Directory of state-local relations organizations: The ACIR counterparts.
• A-117: State-local relations organizations: The ACIR counterparts.
• A-115: Intergovernmental regulation of telecommunications.
• A-114: State and local initiatives on productivity, technology, and innovation: Enhancing a national resource for international competitiveness.

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1980:

• A-113: State constitutions in the federal system: Selected issues and opportunities for state initiatives.
• A-112: Residential community associations: Private governments in the intergovernmental system? (With papers from a policy conference sponsored by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.)
• A-111: Disability rights mandates: Federal and state compliance with employment protections and architectural barrier removal
• A-110: State regulations of banks in an era of deregulation.
• A-109: The organization of local public economies,
• A-108: Devolving selected federal-aid highway programs and revenue basis: A critical appraisal.
• A-107: Fiscal discipline in the federal system: National reform and the experience of the states.
• A-106: The transformation in American politics: Implications for federalism,.
• A-105: State and local taxation of out-of-state mail order sales
• A-104: Devolving federal program responsibilities and revenue sources to state and local governments.
• A-103: Intergovernmental service arrangements for delivering local public services: Update 1983.
• A-102: Fiscal management of federal pass-through grants: The need for more uniform requirements and procedures.
• A-101: The states and distressed communities: Final report.
• A-100: Cigarette Tax Evasion: A Second Look
• A-99: Bankruptcies, defaults, and other local government financial emergencies
• A-98: The question of state government capability.
• A-97: Strengthening the federal revenue system: Implications for state and local taxing and borrowing
• A-96: Financing public physical infrastructure.
• A-95: Regulatory federalism: Policy, process, impact, and reform
• A-94: Jails: Intergovernmental dimensions of a local problem.
• A-93: 1981 Tax capacity of the fifty states
• A-92: State taxation of multinational corporations
• A-91: Payments in lieu of taxes on federal real property, appendices.
• A-90: Payments in lieu of taxes on federal real property.
• A-89: The federal influence on state and local roles in the federal system.
• A-88: State and local roles in the federal system.
   
• Federal Role in the Federal System: the Dynamics of Growth (PDF): 
   
  • A-87 (Volume XI): Hearings on the Federal Role
  • A-86 (Volume X): An agenda for American federalism: Restoring confidence and competence.
  • A-85 (Volume IX): The federal role in local fire protection.
  • A-84 (Volume VIII): Federal involvement in libraries
  • A-83 (Volume VII): Protecting the Environment: Politics, Pollution, and Federal Policy
  • A-82 (Volume VI): The Evolution of a Problematic Partnership: The Feds and Higher Ed
  • A-81 (Volume V): Intergovernmentalizing the Classroom: Federal Involvement in Elementary and Secondary Education
  • A-80 (Volume IV): Reducing Unemployment: Intergovernmental Dimensions of National Problem
  • A-79 (Volume III): Public assistance: The growth of a federal function.
  • A-78 (Volume II):  The Condition of Contemporary Federalism: Conflicting Theories and Collapsing Constraints
  • A-77: (Volume I): A crisis of confidence and competence
     
• A-76: Regional growth, Commission report: Interstate tax competition.
• A-75: Regional growth: Flows of federal funds.
• A-74: Regional growth: Historic perspective.
• A-73: Citizen participation in the American federal system.
• A-72: A catalog of federal grant- in- aid programs to state and local governments; grants funded. Report covers fiscal year 1978.

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1970:   

• A-71 State and Local Pension Systems—Federal Regulatory Issues
• A-70: State-local finances in recession and inflation: An economic analysis.
• A-69 Countercyclical Aid and Economic Stabilization
• A-68: The adequacy of federal compensation to local governments for tax exempt federal lands.
• A-67: State mandating of local expenditures.
• A-66: Regionalism Revisited: Recent Areawide and Local Responses
• A-65: Cigarette bootlegging: A state and federal responsibility.
• A-64 State Limitations on Local Taxes & Expenditures
• A-63: Inflation and federal and state income taxes: A commission report
• A-62: Summary and concluding observations: The intergovernmental grant system: An assessment and proposed policies.
• A-61: Federal Grants : Their Effects on State-Local Expenditures, Employment Levels, Wage Rates
• A-60: Block Grants : A Comparative Analysis
• A-59: The States and Intergovernmental Aids
• A-58: The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act : Early Readings from a Hybrid Block Grant
• A-57: Community Development: The Workings of a Federal-Local Block Grant
• A-56: The partnership for health act: Lessons from a pioneering block grant: The intergovernmental grant system: An assessment and proposed policies.
• A-55a: Safe streets reconsidered: The block grant experience 1968- 1975: Part B: Case studies.  
• A-55: Safe streets reconsidered: The block grant experience 1968- 1975.
• A-54: The intergovernmental grant system as seen by local, state, and federal officials: The intergovernmental grant system, an assessment and proposed policies.
• A-53: Improving federal grants management: The intergovernmental grant system: an assessment and proposed policies.
• A-52a: A catalog of federal grant-in-aid programs to state and local governments; grants funded fiscal year 1975: The intergovernmental grant system: an assessment and proposed policies.
• A-52: Categorical grants; their role and design: The intergovernmental grant system, an assessment and proposed policies
• A-51: Block Grants : A Roundtable Discussion
• A-50: State Taxation of Military Income and Store Sales
• A-49: Toward more balanced transportation, new intergovernmental proposals.
• A-48: General Revenue Sharing : An ACIR Re-evaluation
• A-47: Local revenue Diversification : Income, Sales Taxes and User Charges
• A-46: A Look to the North : Canadian Regional Experience
• A-44: The Challenge of Local Government Organization
  
   
• Substate Regionalism and the Federal System
   
  • A-45 (Volume IV): Governmental functions and processes, local and areawide.
  • A-43a (Volume VI): Hearings on substate regionalism.
  • A-43 (Volume I): Regional decision making, new strategies for substate districts.
     
• A-42: City financial emergencies, intergovernmental dimension.
• A-41: Regional governance promise and performance, substate regionalism and federal system.
• A-40: Financing schools and property tax relief, a state responsibility
• A-39: Multistate regionalism.
• A-38: State- local relations in criminal justice system.

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1960:   

• A-37:  Federal Approaches to Aid State and Local Capital Financing
• A-36:  Making the Safe Streets Act Work : An Intergovernmental Challenge
• A-35:  Labor-management policies for state and local government
• A-34brief:  State Aid to Local Government  [brief overview of A-34]
• A-34:  State Aid to Local Government
• A-33:  Intergovernmental Problems in MEDICAID
• A-32_excerpt: Urban and Rural America: Policies for Future Growth [excerpt of A-32]
• A-32:  Urban and Rural America: Policies for future growth
• A-31: v.1. Fiscal balance in American federal system, Volume 1: Basic structure of fiscal federalism
• A-31: v.2. Fiscal balance in American federal system, Volume 2: Metropolitan Fiscal Disparities
• A-30:  State-Local Taxation and Industrial Location
• A-29:  Intergovernmental Relations in the Poverty Program
• A-28:  Building Codes : A Program for Intergovernmental Reform
• A-27: Federal- state coordination of personal income taxes
• A-26: Relocation: Unequal treatment of people and businesses displaced by governments.
• A-25: Metropolitan social and economic disparities, implications for intergovernmental relations in central cities and suburbs
• A-24:  State-Federal Overlapping in Cigarette Taxes
• A-23:  The Intergovernmental Aspects of Documentary Taxes
• A-22: Problem of special districts in American Government
• A-21: Statutory and Administrative Controls Associated With Federal Grants for Public Assistance
• A-19supp: Grant-In-Aid Programs Enacted by the 2nd Session of the 88th Congress  [supplement to A-19]
• A-19: Role of equalization in Federal grants
• A-18summ: Industrial Development Bond Financing   [summary of A-18]
• A-18:  Industrial Development Bond Financing
• A-17: v.1. Role of states in strengthening property tax, Volume 1: Working procedures of the commission
• A-17: v.2. Role of states in strengthening property tax, Volume 2: Recent developments in property tax policy and administration, by State
• A-16: Transferability of Public Employee Retirement Credits Among units of Government
• A-15U: Apportionment of State Legislatures  [suggested state legislation added to A-15]
• A-15: Apportionment of state legislatures.
• A-14: State Constitutional and Statutory Restrictions on Local Taxing Powers
• A-13: Intergovernmental responsibilities for water supply and sewage disposal in metropolitan areas
• A-12: State Constitutional and Statutory Restrictions Upon the Structural, Functional, and Personnel Powers of Local Government
• A-11: Alternative approaches to governmental reorganization in metropolitan areas
• A-10: State Constitutional and Statutory Restrictions on Local Government Debt
• A-9U:  Local Nonproperty Taxes and the Coordinating Role of the State [suggested state legislation added to A-9]
• A-9: Local nonproperty taxes and coordinating role of the State
• A-8: Periodic Congressional Reassessment of Federal Grants-In-Aid to State and Local Governments
• A-7summ:  Intergovernmental Cooperation in Tax Administration [summary of A-7]
• A-7:  Intergovernmental cooperation in tax administration : some principles and possibilities
• A-6summ:  State and Local Taxation of Privately Owned Property Located on Federal Areas  [summary of A-6]
• A-6:  State and Local Taxation of Privately Owned Property Located on Federal Areas : Proposed Amendment of the Buck Act
• A-5U:  Governmental Structure, organization, and Planning in Metropolitan Areas* : Suggested Action by Local, State, and National Governments [* suggested state legislation added]
• A-5:  Governmental Structure, organization, and Planning in Metropolitan Areas : Suggested Action by Local, State, and National Governments
• A-4summ:  Intergovernmental Responsibilities for Mass Transportation Facilities and Services in Metropolitan Areas [summary of A-4]
• A-4:  Intergovernmental responsibilities for mass transportation facilities and services in metropolitan areas
• A-3supp:  Investment of Idle Cash Balances By State and Local Governments : Supplement to Report A-3 [Supplement to A-3, January 1961]
• A-3summ:  Investment of Idle Cash Balances By State and Local Governments [Second summary of A-3, January 1965]
• A-3:  Investment of Idle Cash Balances By State and Local Governments
• A-2summ:  Modification of Federal Grants-in-Aid for Public Health Services [summary of A-2]
• A-2:  Modification of Federal Grants-In-Aid for Public Health Services

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Reports in Brief

1980:

• B-9: A Commission Report in Brief* The Transformation in American Politics : Implications for Federalism
• B-8: In Brief* Jails : Intergovernmental Dimensions of a Local Problem
• B-7: In Brief* Regulatory Federalism : Policy, Process, Impact and Reform
• B-6: In Brief* State and Local Roles in the Federal System
• B-5: In Brief* Payments in Lieu of Taxes on Federal Real Property
• B-4: In Brief* The Federal Role in the Federal System : The Dynamics of Growth

1970:

• B-3: In Brief* Citizen Participation in the American Federal System
• B-2: In Brief* State Mandating of Local Expenditures
• B-1: In Brief* The Intergovernmental Grant System : An Assessment & Proposed Policies

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Serial Publications

Intergovernmental Perspective (PDF): 
 

1975:  Vol. 1     Issue 1
1976:  Vol. 2     Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1977:  Vol. 3     Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1978:  Vol. 4     Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1979:  Vol. 5     Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1980:  Vol. 6     Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1981:  Vol. 7,    Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1982:  Vol. 8,    Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
      (Vol.8, Issue 4 included with Vol. 9, Issue 1)
1983:  Vol. 9,    Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1984:  Vol. 10,  Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1985:  Vol. 11,  Issue 1 | Issue 2-3 | Issue 4
1986:  Vol. 12,  Issue 1 & 2 | Issue 3
1987:  Vol. 13,  Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 & 4
1988:  Vol. 14,  Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1989:  Vol. 15,  Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
      (Includes bibliography of ACIR Publications - 1961 - 1989)
1990:  Vol. 16,  Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1991:  Vol. 17,  Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1992:  Vol. 18,  Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4
1993:  Vol. 19,  Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3
1994:  Vol. 20,  Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3
      (Includes bibliography of ACIR Publications - 1960 - 1994)

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Significant Features of Fiscal Federalism (PDF): 

1976-1977:  Volume 1 | Volume 2 |  Volume 3
1978-1979
1979 - 1980
1980 - 1981
1981 - 1982
1982 - 1983
1984
1985 - 1986
1987
1988: Volume 1 | Volume 2
1989: Volume 1 | Volume 2
1990: Volume 1 | Volume 2
1991: Volume 1 | Volume 2
1992: Volume 1 | Volume 2
1993: Volume 1 | Volume 2
1994: Volume 1 | Volume 2
1995: Volume 1 | Volume 2

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Staff Reports

1990:

• SR-21: Intergovernmental Accountability: The Potential for Outcome-Oriented Performance Management
• SR-20: Federal Grant Profile 1995: A Report on ACIR's Federal Grant Fragmentation Index
• SR-19: Directory of Intergovernmental Contacts [1994]
• SR-18: Taxation of Interstate Mail Order Sales 1994 Revenue Estimates
• SR-17: 1993 Directory of intergovernmental contacts
• SR-16S: Sourcebook of documents to accompany High Performance Public Works
• SR-16: High Performance Public Works : A New Federal Infrastructure Investment Strategy for America
• SR-15: Metropolitan Organization: Comparison of the Allegheny and St. Louis Case Studies
• SR-14: Federal Grant Programs in Fiscal Year 1992…[1993]
• SR-13: Local Revenue Diversification : Rural Economies
• SR-12: Local Revenue Diversification : Local Sales Taxes

   1980:

• SR-11: Readings in Federalism* Perspectives on a Decade of Change
• SR-10: A Staff Report* Local Revenue Diversification : Local Income Taxes
• SR-9: State-Local Highway Consultation and Cooperation: The Perspective of State Legislators
• SR-8: A Staff Report* The Tax Reform Act of 1986—Its Effect on Both Fed…
• SR-7: A Staff Report* Governments at Risk: Liability Insurance and Tort Reform
• SR-6: A Staff Report* Local Revenue Diversification : User Charges
• SR-5: Staff Information Report* Estimates of Revenue Potential from State Taxation of Out-of-state Mail Order Sales
• SR-4: Local Perspectives on State-Local Highway Consultation and Cooperation:…
• SR-3: Summary of Welfare Reform Hearings – 1986 
• SR-2: Preliminary estimates of the effect of the 1986 Federal Tax Reform Act on State Personal Income Tax Liabilities
• SR-1: The Agricultural Recession: Its Impact on the Finances of State and Local governments

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Various Documents (alphabetical order by title)

• ACIR Conference on Unfunded Federal Mandates (HTML)
• American Federalism: Toward a More Effective Partnership (1975)
• Contracting With America : ACIR Recommendations 1961-1995
• Coordination of State and Federal Inheritance, Estate, and Gift Taxes (1961)
• Current Work Program and Reports Adopted: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (1963)
• Hearing Before the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations on Intergovernmental Problems in Medicaid
• Meeting of the United States Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations [Tuesday, March 26, 1996]
• Recommendations to Date. (August 1, 1963)
• Role of FEDERAL MANDATES in Intergovernmental Relations (HTML)
• Summary of Actions Taken by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (August 1963)
• Summary of Comments Received on ACIR’s Preliminary Report on Federal Mandates

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Annual Reports

• Thirty-Sixth Annual Report [1995]
• Thirty-Fifth Annual Report [1994]
• Thirty-Fourth Annual Report [1993]
• Thirty-Third Annual Report [1992]
• Thirty-Second Annual Report [1991]
• Thirty-First Annual Report [1990]
• Thirtieth Annual Report [1989]
• Twenty-Ninth Annual Report [1988]
• Twenty-Eighth Annual Report [1987]
• Twenty-Seventh Annual Report [1986]
• Twenty-Sixth Annual Report [1985]
• Twenty-Fifth Annual Report [1984]
• Twenty-Fourth Annual Report [1983]
• Twenty-Third Annual Report [1982]
• Twenty-Second Annual Report [1981]
• Twenty-First Annual Report [1980] M-125
• Twentieth Annual Report [1979]
• Nineteenth Annual Report [1978]
• Eighteenth Annual Report [1977]
• Seventeenth Annual Report [1976]
• Sixteenth Annual Report [1975] M-88
• Fifteenth Annual Report [1974] M-80
• Fourteenth Annual Report [1973] M-76
• Thirteenth Annual Report [1972] M-73
• Twelfth Annual Report [1971] M-59
• Eleventh Annual Report [1970] M-49
• Tenth Annual Report [1969] M-42
• Ninth Annual Report [1968] M-36
• Eighth Annual Report [1967] M-34
• Seventh Annual Report [1966] M-28
• Sixth Annual Report [1965] M-25
• Fifth Annual Report [1964] M-22
• Fourth Annual Report [1963] M-19
• Third Annual Report [1962] M-14
• Second Annual Report [1961] M-2

 

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