The Political Economy of the Local Market for Public Goods: The Role of Entrepreneurs

当地公共产品市场的政治经济学：企业家的角色

• 批准号: 9024116
• 负责人: Mark Schneider
• 金额: $ 12.78万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-04-01 至 1994-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9024116&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Political; Economy; Local; Market; Public

Standard theories of the provision of municipal services hold that market forces operate to ensure the efficient provision of these public goods. The argument is that a market is created as citizens "shop around" among different municipalities deciding to settle down and live in the municipality that provides the best combination of high services/low taxes for the individual citizen. Underlying this theory, however, are contrary to evidence assumptions that most citizens are well informed about municipal services and taxes and that it is relatively easy for individuals to move from one community to another in search of the optimal combination. This award supports an ambitious program of research to test and refine the standard Tiebout model of urban political economy and the assumptions underlying it. The investigators will conduct a series of surveys to determine the role of individuals, businesses, and governments in the creation of efficient local markets for public goods. In particular, they will examine the possibility that a subsample of the public exists which is much better informed and more mobile than the norm and whose members serve, in effect, as mobility entrepreneurs, creating markets by their actions which benefit automatically other residents of the community. The project also considers the possibility that politicians play active roles in creating markets by competing both for certain kinds of business and certain kinds of citizens as well. When completed this research should provide a better understanding of the dynamics that underlie the provision of municipal services in the United States. It should thereby establish a more rigorous, empirical basis for judging the efficiency and effectiveness of the provision of public goods by local governments.

提供市政服务的标准理论认为，市场力量的运作是为了确保这些公共产品的有效提供。 其论点是，当公民在不同城市之间“货比三家”决定在为公民个人提供高服务/低税收最佳组合的城市定居和生活时，就会创建一个市场。 然而，这一理论的基础与证据假设相反，即大多数公民都充分了解市政服务和税收，并且个人相对容易从一个社区迁移到另一个社区以寻求最佳组合。 该奖项支持一项雄心勃勃的研究计划，以测试和完善城市政治经济的标准蒂博特模型及其背后的假设。 调查人员将进行一系列调查，以确定个人、企业和政府在创建高效的当地公共产品市场中的作用。特别是，他们将研究存在这样一种可能性：公众的子样本比一般人更了解情况、更具流动性，其成员实际上充当流动企业家，通过他们的行动创造市场，自动使该地区的其他居民受益。社区。 该项目还考虑了政治家通过争夺某些类型的企业和某些类型的公民而在创造市场方面发挥积极作用的可能性。 完成后，这项研究应该可以更好地了解美国市政服务提供的动态。 从而为判断地方政府提供公共产品的效率和效果建立更加严格的实证基础。