Local government spending and at-large versus district presentation; do wards result in more "pork"?

Economics and Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-203

  Southwick Jr , Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT SPENDING; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLITICIAL REPRESENTATION; URBAN ECONOMY;

USA;

EID: 0031467198     PISSN: 09541985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0343.00027     Document Type: Article

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