𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

An economic analysis of the voting on Michigan's tax and expenditure limitation amendment

✍ Scribed by Steve Mariotti

Publisher
Springer US
Year
1978
Tongue
English
Weight
570 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
0048-5829

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This paper investigates electorate behavior on Proposal C, a proposed amendment to the Michigan constitution, whose passage would have limited taxes and expenditures in the State of Michigan. Voting behavior was analyzed within the framework of the basic hypotheses: that the electorate tended to vote on Proposal C in its economic interests, narrowly conceived. The results were contradictory, with some groups voting against their economic interests and others voting as the hypothesis would predict. Further, a relatively low percentage of the total voting variance was explained, indicating that perhaps other variables than economic ones influenced voting behavior. * The author is a Liberty Fund Fellow studying economics at the Institute for Humane Studies. This paper is part of a project written for Paul W. McCracken at the University of Michigan's Graduate School of Business Administration. Edward Mitchell and William Niskanen are thanked for their advice and encouragement. Roger Garrison and Mickey Levy gave useful advice on data collection and methodology.

πŸ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES

Environmental Change in Britain's Countr
Environmental Change in Britain's Countryside: An Analysis of Recent Patterns and Socio-Economic Processes Based on the Countryside Survey 1990
✍ Clive Potter; Colin Barr; Matt Lobley πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1996 πŸ› Elsevier Science 🌐 English βš– 122 KB

Recent environmental change in the British countryside is increasingly well documented. The advent of the government's Countryside Survey 1990 adds significantly to knowledge about stock and change, though analysis of the results to date has focused on the extent and direction of land cover change a

An economic analysis of revegetation for
An economic analysis of revegetation for dryland salinity control on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in South Australia
✍ S. Hajkowicz; M. D. Young πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 2002 πŸ› John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English βš– 447 KB

## Abstract Dryland salinity is a major natural resource management problem imposing large economic and environmental costs in many countries throughout the world. The major cause of dryland salinity is the replacement of perennial native vegetation with annual crops and pastures. This results in g

Budgeting for results: Perspectives on p
Budgeting for results: Perspectives on public expenditure management; Managerialism and the public services: Cuts or cultural change in the 1990s?; AnsΓ€tze einer wirkungsorientierten verwaltungsfΓΌhrung: Von der idee des new public managements (NPM) zum konkreten gestaltungsmodell; The prospects for reinventing government, and bureaucrats in business: The economics and politics of government ownership
✍ Fred Thompson πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1997 πŸ› John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English βš– 109 KB πŸ‘ 2 views

it goes far deeper in this regard than the rest of the policy literature and than much of the scholarly literature as well. In short, How Much Is Your Vote Worth? accomplishes what it sets out to accomplish, by providing a cogent theoretical and empirical case against spending limits and public fina