DISTRIBUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF CONSOLIDATED COMMUNITY SERVICE PROVISION

Webb M. Smathers, Josef M. Broder and John F. Porter

No 278894, 1980 Annual Meeting, July 27-30, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Cost pirimization decision criteria used to evaluate alternative community service delivery systems often ignore distributional incidence of public good provision and quality of service. Using public choice theory, relationships among transaction costs, political unit size, service quality and interest group conflict are examined for a case study.

Keywords: Institutional; and; Behavioral; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 1980-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278894

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