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RECREATION AS AN ISSUE OF URBAN PUBLIC POLICY IN TWELVE SOUTH FLORIDA MUNICIPALITIES

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Date Issued:
1972
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This thesis was undertaken to empirically investigate the reason or reasons for some municipalities to pursue a "high effort" per capita allocation for recreation while proximate communities demonstrate a "low effort." Twelve communities along the Florida Gold Coast satisfied four criteria and were selected in this comparative study, including Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami Beach. Comparable per capita recreation allocations were computed from the adopted 1971- 72 municipal budgets. The Spearman rank order statistical test was performed on twelve demographic, social and economic independent variables to measure their association with the per capita allocations for recreation. Results: the percentage of the population with an income of $15,000 or more, and the tax quotient independent variables were positively associated, whereas the density and percentage of population 18 and under independent variables were negatively associated with the per capita recreation allocation.
Title: RECREATION AS AN ISSUE OF URBAN PUBLIC POLICY IN TWELVE SOUTH FLORIDA MUNICIPALITIES.
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Name(s): BERTALAN, JOHN J.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
DeGrove, John M., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Political Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1972
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 75 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis was undertaken to empirically investigate the reason or reasons for some municipalities to pursue a "high effort" per capita allocation for recreation while proximate communities demonstrate a "low effort." Twelve communities along the Florida Gold Coast satisfied four criteria and were selected in this comparative study, including Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami Beach. Comparable per capita recreation allocations were computed from the adopted 1971- 72 municipal budgets. The Spearman rank order statistical test was performed on twelve demographic, social and economic independent variables to measure their association with the per capita allocations for recreation. Results: the percentage of the population with an income of $15,000 or more, and the tax quotient independent variables were positively associated, whereas the density and percentage of population 18 and under independent variables were negatively associated with the per capita recreation allocation.
Identifier: 13495 (digitool), FADT13495 (IID), fau:10340 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.
Subject(s): Recreation--Florida--Management
Recreation--Economic aspects--Florida
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