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Determinants of Public Services Provision in Rural Communities: Evidence from Voting on Hospital Referenda

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  • Rodney D. Fort
  • Jon B. Christianson

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There has been considerable recent research regarding the determinants of consumer demand for collectively provided goods, but relatively little of this research has focused on rural areas or issues that are particularly important to rural residents. In this paper, a public choice analytical framework is adopted to analyze voting behavior on rural hospital referenda. The results of the analysis aid in understanding support given by rural residents to low occupancy, rural hospitals and in predicting opposition to public sector efforts to close such facilities.

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  • Rodney D. Fort & Jon B. Christianson, 1981. "Determinants of Public Services Provision in Rural Communities: Evidence from Voting on Hospital Referenda," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 63(2), pages 228-236.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:63:y:1981:i:2:p:228-236.
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    1. Rodney Fort, 1988. "The median voter, setters, and non-repeated construction bond issues," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 56(3), pages 213-231, March.
    2. Rodney Fort & Douglas Bunn, 1998. "Whether one votes and how one votes," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 95(1), pages 51-62, April.
    3. Joshua C. Hall & Jeremy Horpedahl & E. Frank Stephenson, 2021. "Collective Action Problems and Direct Democracy: An Analysis of Georgia’s 2010 Trauma Care Funding Amendment," Economies, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-9, April.

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