The Optimal Provision of Public Goods in a System of Local Government
The Optimal Provision of Public Goods in a System of Local Government
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地方政府体制中公共产品的优化供给
DOI：
10.1086/259106
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发表时间：
1966
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Alan W. Williams
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作者：
Alan W. Williams
I.问题公共物品理论的最新发展使人们更好地理解了公共物品与私人物品相比所具有的显著经济特征，2以及它们在个人主义社会中给集体决策带来的困难，3但它们仍然没有导致人们普遍重新考虑“政府”作为一个单一中心决策单位的概念。政府是一个分散的、多中心的决策部门，其中每个政府单位的决定影响其他单位的决定，并受其他单位的决定的影响。本文提出了一个理论结构，旨在采取
I. THE PROBLEM R ECENT developments in the theory of public goods have resulted in an improved understanding of the distinguishing economic characteristics of public goods compared with private goods,2 and of the difficulties they create for collective decision-making in an individualistic society,3 but they still have not led to a general reconsideration of the concept of "the government" as a single-centered ecision-making unit.4 In reality, government is a fragmented, multicentered decision-making sector in which the decisions of each governmental unit affect and are affected by the decisions of the others. This article sets forth a theoretical structure designed to take