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Alternative voting rules and local expenditure: The town-meeting vs. city

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Three hypotheses, which have been advanced by students of collective decision-making, have been subjected to crude test with data spanning nearly a century. That none of the three finds confirmation or refutation suggests that both our understanding of these processes and the refinement of available tests leave much to be desired. The empirical results surveyed here, as well as those of other writers, consistently yield highly tentative interpretations. At root many of the ambiguities are a product of the identification problem. (11) Copyright the Thomas Jefferson Center for Political Economy, Rouss Hall, University of Virginia 1967

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  • Harvey Wheeler, 1967. "Alternative voting rules and local expenditure: The town-meeting vs. city," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 2(1), pages 61-70, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:2:y:1967:i:1:p:61-70
    DOI: 10.1007/BF01718652
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    1. Sharon Megdal, 1983. "The determination of local public expenditures and the principal and agent relation: A case study," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 40(1), pages 71-87, January.
    2. Ryan C. Amacher & Robert D. Tollison & Thomas D. Willett, 1975. "A Budget Size in a Democracy: A Review of the Arguments," Public Finance Review, , vol. 3(2), pages 99-122, April.
    3. Saiz, Albert, 2011. "The median voter didn't show up: Costly meetings and insider rents," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 41(5), pages 415-425, September.

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