IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/pubcho/v81y1994i3-4p223-40.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Median Voter Hypothesis: Evidence from General Purpose Local Governments

Author

Listed:
  • Turnbull, Geoffrey K
  • Djoundourian, Salpie S

Abstract

The median voter hypothesis represents a much-used as well as much-criticized tool in the hands of public finance economists. To evaluate the median voter hypothesis, this paper applies the Cox specification test using data from general purpose municipal governments. The Cox test allows for possible simultaneous rejection of the median voter hypothesis and all tested models, thus providing stricter criteria than applied to date in empirical median voter hypothesis analyses. The test results reveal that the median voter hypothesis is appropriate for explaining the aggregate behavior of municipal governments but not specific services. Further, the single service and single tax base assumptions are not critical to the empirical median voter hypothesis performance. Copyright 1994 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Suggested Citation

  • Turnbull, Geoffrey K & Djoundourian, Salpie S, 1994. "The Median Voter Hypothesis: Evidence from General Purpose Local Governments," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 81(3-4), pages 223-240, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:81:y:1994:i:3-4:p:223-40
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:81:y:1994:i:3-4:p:223-40. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.