Elinor and Vincent Ostrom have dedicated their professional careers to understanding polycentric forms of public administration. From a public finance perspective, the Ostrom-polycentric system represents a number of challenges. America's answer to the public financing of polycentric public...

The conventional view of fiscal zoning is that communities only make land use accommodations to Nuisance Entities who generate enough fiscal benefits to compensate for their other undesirable traits. By representing a disproportionate burden of the property tax base, this finance-for-location...