GENERAL REVENUE SHARING Research Utilization Project Volume 3 SYNTHESIS OF FORMULA RESEARCH October 1975 The research summarized in this volume was carried out with the support of the National lénited States National Science Foundation Research Applied to National Needs As part of its Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) program, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded the General Revenue Sharing Research Utilization Project to assemble, for use by Congress and the public, the results of a wide range of research on general revenue sharing (GRS). Included are the results of 18 GRS studies funded by NSF/RANN, plus several major studies sponsored by other groups. Research reports on general revenue sharing are necessarily voluminous, and may be highly technical. The purpose of the Research Utilization Project is to present an overview of research results in a form that will be useful to policy makers, decision makers, and the interested public. This volume, the third of five planned for publication, synthesizes the approaches and results of formula research sponsored by NSF/RANN, and the formula-relevant portions of research by outside organizations. Research Utilization Project volumes are: Other Volume--Summaries of Formula Research, presents summaries by Volume 2--Summaries of Impact and Process Research, presents Volume 4--Synthesis of Impact and Process Research, to integrate the results of impact and process research by NSF/RANNsponsored authors and others, according to the issues addressed. Subjects covered include fiscal impacts, citizen participation, civil rights, and intergovernmental relations (due October 31, 1975). Volume 5--Ancilla to General Revenue Sharing Research, to include an integrated subject and name index for the NSF/RANN-sponsored research reports (and selected other documents) on general revenue sharing, an annotated bibliography of GRS documents of less than national scope and a bibliography of other relevant documents (due October 31, 1975). This volume was prepared from reports by the principal investigators of the NSF/RANN-sponsored formula research and from selected complementary documents. Further contributions were made by a number of principal investigators and evaluators from several federal, policy study, and public interest groups who participated in two workshops (participants are listed in Appendix A). The names and addresses of the principal investigators for all of the NSF/ RANN-sponsored GRS research projects are listed in Appendix A of Volumes 1 and 2 of this series. |