El sector no lucrativo desde el enfoque de la elección pública: Cuando la oferta no lucrativa de bienes públicos es el resultado de decisiones emanadas del proceso político

Miguel Puchades Navarro () and Antonia Sajardo-Moreno ()
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Miguel Puchades Navarro: Universitat de València

CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa, 2001, issue 37, pages 117-140

Abstract: The voluntary supply of collective goods by nonprofit institutions has deserved little attention in the Public Choice literature, and the clasical nonprofits approach does not consider nonprofits supply as a collective decision, although individuals, either as consumers or as donors, are in the center of their theoretical constructs. In this paper we hypothesize that voluntary nonprofits' provision is a collective choice. We present a model in which the members of a community, both those who fund the nonprofits and those who do not (free riders) vote, so choosing between a political program of governmental supply and a political program of non governmental supply. Afterward, they must also decide whether a program of fiscal deductions to donations to nonprofits is applied or not. Our model shows that if there is a majority of cooperative contributors public provision is voted and a minimum percentage of cooperative contributors is required for voluntary provision.

Keywords: Collective goods; Collective choice; Nonprofit organizations; Altruism; Voluntary contributions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D64 L31 L30 D64 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001

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