The paper analyzes the impact on municipal property values of the Lakewood intergovernmental contract police services plan. It is argued that any economic Abstract benefits of contracting over self-provision of services will generate tax and service quality differentials which will tend to be...

In this article the theory of bureaucracy is used to analyze the collective choice mechamsm for determining military spending. The model integrates economies of size in military output from both the consumption (publicness) and production (scale) sides. Spillover effects on a nation's military...