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Bureaucracy and the divisibility of local public output

โœ Scribed by Rodolfo A. Gonzalez; Stephen L. Mehay

Publisher
Springer US
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
628 KB
Volume
45
Category
Article
ISSN
0048-5829

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โœฆ Synopsis

Recent research has analyzed the issue of whether local government services are public or private in nature. In analyzing the determinants of local government spending both Bergstrom and Goodman (1973) and Borcherding and Deacon (1972) developed variants of the median voter model which permitted estimation of 'publicness' parameters in reduced form expenditure equations. In both studies the estimated parameter indicated that municipal services are divisible in consumption, a characteristic of private goods. Subsequent studies have tended to corroborate this result (Gramlich

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