A bureaucratic model of local government tax and expenditure decisions
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Applied Economics
- Vol. 16 (2) , 257-268
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00036848400000035
Abstract
A model of incremental decision-making in local government is presented as an extention of that developed by davis et al. (1996) for US Congressional appropriation. This is then combined with joint supply and demand equation for local taxes and expenditure. An explicit Stone-Geary utility function derived when these fuctions are maximized subject to the supply and demand equations as constraints. Empitical results are then given for local authorities in England and Wales from 1974 to 1960. These results confirm a very important role for the bureauctic component within the overall tax-expenditure model.Keywords
This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- Local Fiscal Response to Intergovernmental TransfersThe Review of Economics and Statistics, 1980
- Local government response to grants and the reliability of OLS analysis of pooled dataThe Annals of Regional Science, 1980
- An adaptive linear expenditure system for state and local governmentsApplied Economics, 1978
- The impact of block grants on local expenditures and property tax ratesJournal of Public Economics, 1974
- The Economic Theory of Representative GovernmentPublished by Springer Nature ,1974
- Investment Decisions and the Size of Local AuthoritiesPolicy & Politics, 1972
- Some Social and Political Correlates of County Borough ExpendituresBritish Journal of Political Science, 1971
- A Theory of the Budgetary ProcessAmerican Political Science Review, 1966
- Linear Expenditure Systems and Demand Analysis: An Application to the Pattern of British DemandThe Economic Journal, 1954