A Transactions Costs Model of Metropolitan Governance: Allocation Versus Redistribution in Urban America

By David Lowery. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Law, Political Science and International Relations

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Privatization and Intermunicipal Contracting: The US Local Government Experience 1992–2007 (2012, background): “However, more recent reviews question the equity and effi ciency claims and point to the problem that jurisdictional boundaries create for community building (Frug, 1999; Lowery, 2000; Nelson and Foster, 1999; Warner, 2011a; Warner and Hefetz, 2002a).”
Applying Market Solutions to Public Services (2002, background): “Public choice approaches have dominated the debate, but concerns about the inequities caused by such fragmentation (Massey and Denton 1993) have led to calls for new analyses that look closely at the impact of political boundaries on citizen and government behavior (Lowery 2000).”
Factors explaining inter-municipal cooperation in service delivery: a meta-regression analysis (2016, background): “Governments generally cooperate when it is in their self-interest, and may tend to exclude governments with higher costs or lower fiscal capabilities from cooperative agreements (Lowery 2000).”
Managing Markets for Public Service: The Role of Mixed Public–Private Delivery of City Services (2008, background): “Problems with preference substitution and loss of deliberation limit the ability to reach a social optimum (Hipp & Warner, 2006; Lowery, 2000; Sager, 2001; Starr, 1987).”
Rational Choice and Regional Governance (2007, background): “…consolidation of existing government units and creation of regional governments with significant powers to control land use and development can better promote economic development, reduce inequality, and address social, economic and environmental externalities (Basolo, 2003; Lowery, 2000, 2001).”
Beyond the market versus planning dichotomy: Understanding privatisation and its reverse in US cities (2007, background): “Lowery (2000) points out that public choice does not allow for interdependence and communication to affect individual preferences.”
Prospects for Regional Governance under the New Regionalism: Economic Imperatives versus Political Impediments (2001, background): “As Lowery (2000) noted, “In fragmented governmental settings, the dice are institutionally loaded against policies designed to enhance desegregated housing location, the matching of fiscal resources and fiscal needs and the effective management of growth and economic development” (p. 73). This is be”
Municipal amalgamations and their effects: a literature review (2018, unknown): “When residents are provided with a relatively large number of choices over where to live, communities often become highly differentiated in terms of spending on public services, levels of taxation, financial resources of residents, and the racial composition of the municipality’s population (Lowery ”