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A Comparison of Political Institutions in a Tiebout Model

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  • Ken Kollman

    (University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research)

  • John H. Miller

    (Carnegie Mellon University, Social and Decision Sciences)

  • Scott E. Page

    (California Institute of Technology, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Abstract

We construct a computational model of Tiebout competition. We show that the notion that Tiebout competition, as a result of enforcing efficiency, renders institutional arrangements unimportant does not preclude the possibility that political institutions may differ in their ability to sort citizens. In particular, institutions which perform poorly given a single location, may perform better when there are multiple locations because they allow for improved sorting. We demonstrate that insights from simulated annealing, a discrete nonlinear search algorithm, may explain this improvement.

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  • Ken Kollman & John H. Miller & Scott E. Page, 1995. "A Comparison of Political Institutions in a Tiebout Model," Papers _002, Carnegie Mellon, Department of Decision Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:wop:carnds:_002
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