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Alternative Service Delivery Strategies For Local Governments

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Brunet, Alexia
McNamara, Kevin T.
Deboer, Larry
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A model for observing public service delivery choice in the presence of economic expansion is presented. Regression techniques were used to estimate the share of county population served by volunteer fire protection from variables measuring community demands for and relative costs of fire protection services.

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Paper provided by American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) in its series 2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL with number 20705.

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Keywords: firefighters; volunteer organizations; taxes; municipal service demands; local spending; population growth; median voter; Public Economics;

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  1. Sass, Tim R, 1991. " The Choice of Municipal Government Structure and Public Expenditures," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 71(1-2), pages 71-87, August.
  2. Congleton, Roger D & Bennett, Randall W, 1995. " On the Political Economy of State Highway Expenditures: Some Evidence of the Relative Performance of Alternative Public Choice Models," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 84(1-2), pages 1-24, July.
  3. Pommerehne, Werner W & Schneider, Friedrich, 1978. "Fiscal Illusion, Political Institutions, and Local Public Spending," Kyklos, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 31(3), pages 381-408.
  4. Stevens, Joe B & Mason, Robert, 1996. " Political Markets, Property Tax Referenda, and Local School Spending," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 86(3-4), pages 257-77, March.
  5. Borcherding, Thomas E & Deacon, Robert T, 1972. "The Demand for the Services of Non-Federal Governments," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 62(5), pages 891-901, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  6. Brueckner, Jan K., 1981. "Congested public goods: The case of fire protection," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(1), pages 45-58, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Romer, Thomas & Rosenthal, Howard, 1979. "The elusive median voter," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 12(2), pages 143-170, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  8. Duncombe, William D, 1992. "Costs and Factor Substitution in the Provision of Local Fire Services," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 74(1), pages 180-84, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  9. Southwick, Lawrence, Jr & Butler, Richard J, 1985. "Fire Department Demand and Supply in Large Cities," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 17(6), pages 1043-64, December.
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