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City Government Structure: Are Some Institutions Undersupplied?

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  • William M. Doerner

    (Federal Housing Finance Agency)

  • Keith Ihlanfeldt

    (Department of Economics, Florida State University)

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City councilors have a vested interest in maintaining the local government structure that got them elected. This resistance to change may result in non-optimal supplies of particular local political institutions as cities and metropolitan areas experience changes in population and diversity. Using unique data from the State of Florida, we show that there is an undersupply of cities offering larger council sizes. Our evidence also suggests that there is no undersupply of cities with the mayor-council versus the council-manager form of government or cities with at-large versus district election methods.

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  • William M. Doerner & Keith Ihlanfeldt, 2010. "City Government Structure: Are Some Institutions Undersupplied?," Working Papers wp2011_03_01, Department of Economics, Florida State University, revised Mar 2011.
    • Handle: RePEc:fsu:wpaper:wp2011_03_01
    DOI: 10.1007/s11127-011-9836-5
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    Keywords

    local government structure; efficient supply of political institutions;

    JEL classification:

    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
    • R28 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Government Policy

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