This research considers the likelihood of adoption of and the effectiveness of growth management policy. First, I consider the likelihood that states adopt growth management policies. To conduct this research, I employ the policy diffusion model and add to the economic competition component of...

The proportion of a unit of government's budget devoted to labor costs determines whether cost reductions at the metropolitan level are achieved through fragmentation or consolidation. Consolidating capital intense functions at higher levels of government is the optimal cost-reducing strategy....

Cooperation among local governments has garnered extensive attention in the literature. Not obvious, however, is how partisanship of communities and their elected representatives influence decisions to engage in interlocal cooperation over collective goods and services. In this paper, we develop...