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On the Political Economy of Public Service

In: The Economics of Public Services

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  • Bruno S. Frey

    (Universities of Konstanz)

Abstract

A positive study of the intertemporal variation of public services and investment is undertaken, with special emphasis on the electoral period. The government is assumed to undertake public investments in order to maximise its utility over the current election period, subject to the constraint that such policy assures re-election. Government utility depends on various elements, to which the various parties assign different weights according to their ideology. Alternatively, it is assumed that governments want to maximise the time period during which they are in power. A major influence on public expenditures is exerted by bureaucracy, which is assumed to act incrementally and tends to maximise budgets.

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  • Bruno S. Frey, 1977. "On the Political Economy of Public Service," International Economic Association Series, in: Martin S. Feldstein & Robert P. Inman (ed.), The Economics of Public Services, chapter 18, pages 415-434, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-02917-4_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-02917-4_18
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    1. Matthieu Chtioui Cepn & Nadine Levratto, 2020. "Fiscalité locale et dynamique d'emploi des territoires : analyse empirique sur les communes françaises (Version preprint) A paraitre dans la Revue d'Economie Régionale et urbaine, 2021," Working Papers halshs-02901499, HAL.
    2. Lafay Jean-Dominique, 1990. "L’Opposition Dans Le Systeme Pootico-Economique : Analyse Theorique Et Etude Empirique Du Cas Francais," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, De Gruyter, vol. 1(1), pages 1-18, January.

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