Private Governments or Public Policy Tools? The Law and Public Policy of New Jersey’s Special Improvement Districts

Business Improvement Districts: Research, Theories, and Controversies

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 161-195

  Justice, Jonathan B ^a   Goldsmith, Robert S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Rutgers University School of Law Newark   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315096025-8     Document Type: Chapter

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