The authors use two different data sources to confront the questton of whether a party's primary economic purpose is to sell spectal favors or alternatively to provide information and serve as an ideological label. Although not denying the proposition that politicians sell special favors, it...

An extensive data set on upstate New York school district inputs and outputs is used to measure the technical efficiency of public school districts and to test whether certain institutional arrangements, including more public and private competition, can enhance various measures of high school...

Indices of progressivity may need some arbitrary assumptions for their calculation. The assumptions the authors make are no more unreasonable than those suggested by Kiefer. Those that are salient concern the mean incomes in each bracket and the movement of families between brackets in the pre-...

This article reexamines the question of the perceived burdens from taxes on residential property within the context of a single median voter model. It provides a means of testing whether the estimated fraction of nonresidential property perceived to be exported is different from either zero or...

The explanations of turnover in legislatures developed by political scientists are combined with an economic cartel model of the organization of legislatures to explain interstate variation in turnover in the period 1972-1986. Few robustly significant determinants are found and the results...

The authors use the proposition that it is the size of the net gains from a change to the volunteer army that determines its probability to describe circumstances which unambiguously increase the probability of a policy change. Certain events which intuitively seem to imply a greater probability...