Contestable Markets for State Economic Governance: Reducing the Costs of Democracy in U.S. States

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9887
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Type:	Thesis or Dissertation
Author:	Collins, Brian K.
Date:	2000
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9887
Sector:	Social Organization
Region:	North America
Subject(s):	cost democracy economic policy federalism governance and politics state and local governance taxation
Abstract:	"The research asks what causes US states to make policies that decrease or increase the costs of democracy? The costs of democracy arise when a democratic government exploits an agency relationship and monopoly policy-making powers to provide distributive policy regimes that undermine economic performance."

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