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| Author: | Baqir, R. |
| Title: | Districting and government overspending |
| Journal: | Journal of Political Economy
2002 : DEC, VOL. 110:6, p. 1318-1354 |
| Index terms: | Public expenditure Budget Cities Political economy Models USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Theories of government spending driven by a common-pool problem in the fiscal revenues pool predict that greater districting of a political jurisdiction raises the scale of government. The paper presents evidence on this and related predictions from a cross section of city governments in the United States. The main finding is that, when other plausible determinants of government spending are controlled for, greater districting leads to a considerably greater scale of government activity. |
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