JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sorting Through the Determinants of Local Government Competition
- Title:
- Sorting Through the Determinants of Local Government Competition
- Authors:
- Overton, Michael
- Year:
- 2017
- Output Type:
- Journal Article
- Venue:
- The American Review of Public Administration
- Venue Type:
- Peer-reviewed journal
- Status:
- Published
- Theme:
- Municipal Finance and Budgeting
- Sub-theme:
- Municipal Competition
- Shared Trajectory:
- Market Differentiation and Municipal Competition
- Abstract:
- Competition among local governments for business investment and residents is a key feature of metropolitan governance scholarship. Despite the excellent work exploring interjurisdictional competition, the conceptualization and operationalization of competition still lack the necessary complexity to fully capture the determinants of competition. In reality, the degree of competition between local governments is a multidimensional concept. How do the different dimensions of competition impact a city’s own-source revenue yield? Using a Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) to analyze a sample of 2,299 U.S. cities, this study finds that household income differentiation and manufacturing differentiation are important in a city’s revenue yield, and both types of differentiation limit head-to-head competition among local governments. In addition, the results indicate that entry barriers and collaboration affect a city’s revenue yields, while the number of cities in a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) does not influence those collections.
- Topics:
- Local competition Tiebout Public choice
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074016651143
- Citations (OpenAlex):
- 31
- OpenAlex ID:
- W2472520185
- Full Citation:
- Overton, Michael. (2017). "Sorting Through the Determinants of Local Government Competition." The American Review of Public Administration, 47 (8), 914-928. https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074016651143
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Reference
Overton, Michael (2017). Sorting Through the Determinants of Local Government Competition. The American Review of Public Administration.
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