Policy, Markets, and Bureaucracy

Public choice is an idea that is gaining support as a policy option for the nation's schools. Advocates of choice argue decoupling education from the control of democratic institutions and substituting a market mechanism will promote effective schools. This paper analyzes the underlying premises of the public choice argument and empirically tests them on a district-level data set of Florida schools. The relationships hypothesized by public choice advocates to be important determinants of performance often fail to appear. The results raise questions about the effectiveness of the public choice policy option

Argument (complex analysis · Bureaucracy · Choice set · Control (management · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Management · Mechanism (biology · Political science · Politics · Public choice · Public economics · Public policy · Public relations · School choice · Set (abstract data type · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance

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