Changing the price of pork: the impact of local cost sharing on legislators' demands for distributive public goods

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to analyze the effects of local cost sharing on legislators' demands for distributive public goods. Legislators' responsiveness to their constituents' share of project costs was examined using the Water Resources Development Act of 1986. Results indicated that higher cost shares significantly minimized the demands of legislators for locally beneficial projects. Findings also suggested that local cost sharing for national legislators is a more efficient method of carrying out central government fiscal policies.

Expenditures-Total Govt, Economic aspects, Public expenditures, Government productivity, Waste in government spending, Government spending waste

---

Local property taxation with external land ownership

Article Abstract:

Analysis of tax-poll subsidy policy formulation in the context of tax exporting reveals that the optimal property tax is the optimal tariff when residents are homogeneous. The study also reveals that differences in incomes and mobility across jurisdictions produces differences where tax exporting, intrajurisdictional redistribution and congestion are the determining factors.

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Property Taxes, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Research, Taxation, Real estate, Real property, Social psychology

---

Local governance and public goods provision in rural China

Article Abstract:

Impact of democracy on public resource allocation and administration of public goods in rural China is analyzed.

China, Goods & services distribution, Channels of Distribution, Public Administration-Total Govt, Public Administration, Political aspects, Democracy, Distribution, Company distribution practices

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: A study of the impacts of zoning on housing values over time. The price elasticity of the supply of single-family detached urban housing
• Abstracts: The many faces of Tiebout bias in local education demand parameter estimates. Calculating elasticities from structural parameters in implicit markets
• Abstracts: Using information diffusion models to estimate the impacts of regulatory events on publicly traded firms. Multi-firm regulation without lump-sum taxes
• Abstracts: Training, migration, and regional income disparities. Can state taxes redistribute income? Tax competition with heterogeneous firms
• Abstracts: Perceptions of the expenditure budget process: survey of federal and provincial legislators and public servants

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.