The first and overriding objective of the whole of this study is an exploration of some of the implications and requirements of the assumption, which I endeavor to buttress empirically, that governments are competitive - that each one individually is internally competitive, that they compete among themselves, and, last but not least, that they compete with other institutions in society that are, like them, engaged in the provision of goods and services.
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Competitive governments
an economic theory of politics and public finance
by Albert Breton
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Competitive Governments explores in a systematic way the hypothesis that governments are internally competitive, that they are competitive in their relations with one another and in their relations with other institutions in society that, like them, supply consuming households with goods and services.
Professor Breton contends that competition not only serves to bring the political system to an equilibrium but that it also leads to a revelation of the households' true demand functions for publicly provided goods and services, and to the molding of a link between the quantities and the qualities demanded and supplied and the taxprices paid for these goods and services. In the real world where information is costly, the links may not be first-best, but they will be efficient if competition is vigorous.
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Finance, Public, Government competition, Public Finance, Public goods, Economic policy, Economic history, Finances publiques, Biens collectifs, Concurrence de l'État, Demokratie, Politisches System, Wettbewerb, Wirtschaft, Öffentliche Dienstleistung, Ökonomische Theorie der Politik, Public-Choice-Theorie, Openbare financiën, Collectieve goederen, Concurrentie, Concurrence internationale, Concurrence, Politique publique, Secteurs public et parapublicShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Competitive Governments: An Economic Theory of Politics and Public Finance
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