Imperfect Union
This book offers the first political theory of special purpose jurisdictions, including 35,000 special districts and 13,500 school districts, which constitute the most common form of local government in the United States today Collectively, special purpose governments have civilian employees than the federal government and spend than all city governments combined The proliferation of special purpose jurisdictions has fundamentally altered the nature of representation and taxation in local government Citizens today are commonly represented by dozens in some cases hundreds of local officials in multiple layers of government As a result, political participation in local elections is low and special interest groups associated with each function exert disproportionate influence With multiple special interest governments tapping the same tax base, the local tax base takes on the character of a common pool resource, leading to familiar problems of overexploitation Strong political parties can often mitigate the common pool problem by informally coordinating the policies of multiple overlapping governments. Free Read Imperfect Union [ by ] Christopher R. Berry [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Governments in multi layered political systems don t feel the full ill effects of their taxation, and therefore tend to over tax relative tounitary systems A powerful claim, elegant theory, and very persuasive empirical analysis.
- English
- 25 August 2017 Christopher R. Berry
- Paperback
- 274 pages
- 0521758351
- Christopher R. Berry
- Imperfect Union