Towards an Economic Model of Local Government Behaviour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6326901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Le Grand (0000-0002-7864-0118), David Winter (0009-0000-2345-3078) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 23-39 |
| Publication date | 1977-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557378782842687 |
| OpenAlex | W2025614147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Newton and Sharpe in their contribution to this volume have drawn attention to the urgent need for developing a general theoretical framework in which future output research (in the area of British local government) can be undertaken. It is our intention in this paper to explore the possibility of rectifying this omission by the application of some theoretical constructs used by economists in the study of economic behaviour. More specifically, we examine a simple model of government behaviour incorporating the concepts of a social welfare function and production function, illustrate how it might be used in the British case to provide some insight into the determinants of local authority output decisions, and examine some of the difficulties involved. We do not present any empirical tests, and our conclusions must therefore be qualitative and highly tentative. Nonetheless it seems worth while to discuss the approach in the hope that it may be useful for subsequent empirical work. In the first section, we examine some of the weaknesses in previous studies of UK local government expenditure
Economics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Function (biology · Government (linguistics · Local government · Macroeconomics · Political science · Positive economics · Production (economics · Production function · Public economics · Simple (philosophy · Welfare · Work (physics · Engineering · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 1991 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |