When States Go Broke - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-viii

Tables

pp ix-x

Contributors

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: - The Perennial Crisis for the American States

pp 1-6

Part I - The Origins of the States in Fiscal Crisis

pp 7-96

1 - Fiscal Institutions and Fiscal Crises

pp 9-39

2 - Obligations Without the Power to Fund Them

pp 40-56

3 - Public Pension Pressures in the United States

pp 57-76

4 - Structural Challenges in State Budgeting

pp 77-96

Part II - The Legal and Political Context of Public Debt

pp 97-188

5 - What States Can Learn From Municipal Insolvency

pp 99-122

6 - Market Discipline and U.S. Federalism

pp 123-145

7 - American States and Sovereign Debt Restructuring

pp 146-188

Part III - Evaluating Solutions

pp 189-316

8 - State Bankruptcy from the Ground Up

pp 191-213

9 - Fiscal Federalism and the Limits of Bankruptcy

pp 214-228

10 - Extending Bankruptcy Law to States

pp 229-236

11 - Bankruptcy For the States and By the States

pp 237-252

12 - Labor and the States’ Fiscal Problems

pp 253-314

Epilogue

pp 315-316

Index

pp 317-325