Local Provision of Public Services

The Tiebout Model After Twenty-Five Years

George R. Zodrow

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780127818207
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483260587
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Infrastructure
• Index: Social Sciences

Local Provision of Public Services: The Tiebout Model after Twenty-Five Years describes several theoretical and empirical branches of economic research related to Charles Tiebout's provocative hypothesis that consumer mobility and interjurisdictional competition result in an efficient allocation of resources to the local public sector. The book provides insights on the issues being considered in policy debates regarding the appropriate means of providing essential public services. Chapters in the book include an overview of the Tiebout model; income redistribution in a federal system; empirical relationships in the political economy of local public finance; and two conflicting views of the incidence of the property tax. Economists, local government leaders, and experts in public finance will find the book very insightful.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Local Provision of Public Services: The Tiebout Model after Twenty-Five Years
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. The Tiebout Model after Twenty-Five Years: An Overview
• Chapter 2. The Theory of Local Public Goods Twenty-Five Years after Tiebout: A Perspective
• Chapter 3. Beyond Tiebout: Modeling the Political Economy of Local Government
• Chapter 4. A Review: Is the Property Tax a Benefit Tax?
• Chapter 5. The Incidence of the Property Tax: The Benefit View versus the New View
• Chapter 6. Income Redistribution in a Federal System
• Chapter 7. Are Property Taxes Capitalized into House Values?
• Chapter 8. Voting and Spending: Some Empirical Relationships in the Political Economy of Local Public Finance