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Voting behavior, efficiency, and equity
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This article is published in Public Choice.The article was published on 1975-03-01. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cardinal voting systems & Anti-plurality voting.read more
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Private School Enrollment and Public School Performance
TL;DR: For example, Kelly et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed to divide the city of Boston into three autonomous zones and allow elementary and middle school students to attend any school within their zone of residence.
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The Impact of Legislator Attributes on Interest-Group Campaign Contributions*
Kevin B. Grier,Michael C. Munger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of legislative assets on the campaign contributions made by two large and easily identifiable interest groups: corporations and labor unions, and found that committee assignment, voting record, and electoral security are significant predictors of both corporate and union contributions to House incumbents, while party affiliation and years in office also influence the behavior of union political action committees.
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Public school quality and private school enrollments
TL;DR: In this article, a literal reading of the proposition suggests a fairly drastic cutback in public school spending, which could trigger a progressive decline in public education quality accompanied by an accelerating exodus from the public schools an unravelling of the public school system.
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Allocation patterns of PAC monies: The U.S. Senate
TL;DR: In this paper, the U.S. Senate has been examined by examining a longer timeseries (1978-1986) than has been available before in the literature, and the results differ in important respects from existing work estimating similar models in the House of Representatives.
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Fiscal incidence at the local level
TL;DR: The tax paid by any individual is interpreted by Aaron and McGuire as the sum of two components: the first is a Lindahl tax equal to the individual's marginal rate of substitution between the public good and income times the amount of the public goods provided.
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An Economic Theory of Democracy
TL;DR: Downs presents a rational calculus of voting that has inspired much of the later work on voting and turnout as discussed by the authors, particularly significant was his conclusion that a rational voter should almost never bother to vote.
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The Demand for the Services of Non-Federal Governments
TL;DR: The authors posit a model of public spending derived from the received theory of collective decision making and test the significance of certain variables assumed by this simple theory to be important determinants of the levels of state and local government expenditures.
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The Interpretation of Voting in the Allocation of Economic Resources
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared individual goods and social goods compared, 27.5, 28.3, and 28.4, and concluded that social goods not equally available to all voters, 47.
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The Exchange and Enforcement of Property Rights
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the fact that the exchange of goods and the maintenance of control over the use of goods impose costs on traders and owners, and they seek to establish both the importance and wide role of these costs in economic life.