Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: a political economy approach

Journal of Public Economics - Tập 87 Số 12 - Trang 2611-2637 - 2003
Timothy Besley1, Stephen Coate2
1Department of Economics, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, UK
2Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

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