Pursuing local tax policy -- Local taxation and American federalism -- Local limits -- The logic of the property tax -- The property tax under siege -- Local-option sales and excise taxes -- Income and business taxes -- Nontax revenue options -- Financing local government in the 21st century --...

The government fragmentation hypothesis (GFH) states that coalition governments spend more than single-party governments due to an underlying common pool problem. Using a large panel data set on 604 local governments in the German state of Baden-Württemberg for the 1994-2014 period, I test the...