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Bureaucracy and Intergrovernmental Grants: A Comment

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  • Jones, Philip R
  • Cullis, John G

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Intergovernmental grants have been explained in public finance texts by reference to the conventional welfare economics arguments of equity and efficiency. However, a more recent assessment of decentralization questions the explanatory value of this approach. An alternative analysis, based on Niskanen's model of bureaucracy, will explain inter-departmental transfers within the public sector. This public choice approach emphasizes the importance of price elasticity of demand, rather than spatial non-rivalness of public goods, in determining the federal segmentation of public expenditure. Copyright 1994 by WWZ and Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG

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  • Jones, Philip R & Cullis, John G, 1994. "Bureaucracy and Intergrovernmental Grants: A Comment," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(3), pages 437-448.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:kyklos:v:47:y:1994:i:3:p:437-48
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    1. Beate Jochimsen, 2009. "Service Quality in Modern Bureaucracy: Parkinson's Theory at Work," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 62(1), pages 44-64, February.
    2. Peter Friedrich & Anita Dehne & Chang Woon Nam & Anita Kaltschuetz, 2004. "Significance and Determination of Fees for Municipal Finance," CESifo Working Paper Series 1357, CESifo.
    3. Chang Woon Nam & Rüdiger Parsche, 2001. "Municipal Finance in Poland, the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic and Hungary: Institutional Framework and Recent Development," CESifo Working Paper Series 447, CESifo.

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