Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a number of promises typically made by owners of professional sports franchises in the USA that are also typically ignored or underevaluated by public bureaus and their elected principals using the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York as a case...

After cutting legislator pay by 18% in 2009, the California Citizens Compensation Commission, an independent body charged with determining the pay of statewide elected officials, opted to forego an additional 10% cut in 2010. Since 1990, the Commission has raised legislators’ mean base salary...

Abstract The sales tax has long been hailed a workhouse of state and local public finance, but its future looks grim due in no small part to the continued proliferation of exemptions. While scholars have noted the role politics plays in eroding the sales tax base, no study has empirically...