Subject(s): Public Finance, Local finance in United States -- Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- Changing state local fiscal environment, Demographic and economic changes and state and local government finances, Politics, courts and economy- implications for the future of school financing,Popular processes and the transformation of state and local government finance -- Federal government's impact on state and local government finances, Prospect and challenges for state and local government in digital world, Deregulation of utilities - Challenge and an opportunity for state and local tax policy -- Globalization and state-local government finances, Urban sprawl and the finances of state and local governments