IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/apsrev/v89y1995i03p705-709_09.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Empirical Evidence for Citizen Information and a Local Market for Public Goods

Author

Listed:
  • Lowery, David
  • Lyons, W. E.
  • DeHoog, Ruth Hoogland
  • Teske, Paul
  • Schneider, Mark
  • Mintrom, Michael
  • Best, Samuel

Abstract

In their 1993 article in this Review, Paul Teske, Mark Schneider, Michael Mintrom, and Samuel Best sought to establish the microfoundations for a model of a competitive market for public services between local governments in polycentric regions. An important part of their model focused on subgroups of informed citizens, especially recent movers. Theoretical analysis was supplemented by an empirical study of the factors shaping accuracy of Long Island homeowners' information about relative expenditures and tax rates of their school districts. David Lowery, W. E. Lyons and Ruth Hoogland DeHoog criticize the relevance of this empirical evidence, suggesting the atypical nature of education as a service (especially in this site) and challenging the sufficiency of the demonstrated levels of information for generating a competitive market. Teske and his colleagues reply by pointing out the general importance of education throughout American local policymaking and by defending the relevance of their measures and conclusions for their market model.

Suggested Citation

  • Lowery, David & Lyons, W. E. & DeHoog, Ruth Hoogland & Teske, Paul & Schneider, Mark & Mintrom, Michael & Best, Samuel, 1995. "The Empirical Evidence for Citizen Information and a Local Market for Public Goods," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 89(3), pages 705-709, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:89:y:1995:i:03:p:705-709_09
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400097264/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. repec:ken:wpaper:0502 is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, 2002. "Types of Multi-Level Governance," Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po 3, Centre d'études européennes (CEE) at Sciences Po, Paris.
    3. Scott L. Minkoff, 2009. "Minding Your Neighborhood: The Spatial Context of Local Redistribution," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 90(3), pages 516-537, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:89:y:1995:i:03:p:705-709_09. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/psr .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.