This paper has demonstrated that the tax revolt of the 1970s has not been as successful in reducing the level of state and local government expenditure as preliminary empirical findings indicate, and that the rate of increase in state and local public spending is likely to be far greater than...

We do not claim to have provided a comprehensive view of tax-funded politics, but only to suggest that it is an important political phenomenon. There are hundreds of taxpayer-financed lobbying organizations, many of them so well organized that they have published books on ‘networking.’ The...

The main purpose of this paper has been to empirically assess Tullock's factor-supplier pressure group hypothesis. Theory predicted that public employees would be most able to use their political power to expand public spending levels at the local level of government. Therefore, in contrast to...

This paper has examined the proposition that more concentrated or consolidated metropolitan areas will produce public goods less efficiently than if there were a greater degree of interjurisdictional competition. The empirical evidence garnered in Section 3 suggests that interjurisdictional...

The purpose of this paper has been to extend the type of positive economic analysis of the urban public economy that has been initiated by Wagner and Martin (1978), Wagner and Weber (1975), Ostrom et al. (1976), and others. The hypothesis was tested that restricting the growth of single-purpose...

The main purpose of this paper has been to examine, theoretically and empirically, the effects of internal subsidization by municipal utilities on local public expenditures and tax burdens. The hypothesis was deduced that internal subsidization severs the link between public benefits received...

This paper analyzes common antitrust arguments made against the Microsoft Corporation vis-a-vis its competitors. It critiques common market failure justifications for expanding government interventions to that firm's organization