Too many municipalities?

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Autor(a) principal: Dahlby,Bev
Data de Publicação: 2011
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Economia (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402011000100002
Resumo: Does democracy lead to the creation of too many municipalities? We analyze this issue within the context of the Alesina e Spolaore (1997) model where the quality of municipal services deteriorates with the distance from the center of a municipality. Individuals can vote in a referendum to split an existing municipality. We show that social welfare will decline when municipalities are split if the level of the public service, as chosen by the median voter, is lower in the new smaller municipalities. In general, the model indicates that there may be a democratic bias in favour of creating too many municipalities.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Too many municipalities?
title Too many municipalities?
spellingShingle Too many municipalities?
Dahlby,Bev
Referendum
Succession
Median Voter
title_short Too many municipalities?
title_full Too many municipalities?
title_fullStr Too many municipalities?
title_full_unstemmed Too many municipalities?
title_sort Too many municipalities?
author Dahlby,Bev
author_facet Dahlby,Bev
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Referendum
Succession
Median Voter
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Succession
Median Voter
description Does democracy lead to the creation of too many municipalities? We analyze this issue within the context of the Alesina e Spolaore (1997) model where the quality of municipal services deteriorates with the distance from the center of a municipality. Individuals can vote in a referendum to split an existing municipality. We show that social welfare will decline when municipalities are split if the level of the public service, as chosen by the median voter, is lower in the new smaller municipalities. In general, the model indicates that there may be a democratic bias in favour of creating too many municipalities.
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