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County Limits: Policy Types and Expenditure Priorities

¹ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
² Ajou University
³ Texas Tech University
⁴ Florida State University

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sang{at}vt.edu.

	Abstract

This study extends Peterson’s city limits perspective to counties to empirically examine how economic, political, institutional, and demographic factors influence overall county spending and spending priorities across three core policy arenas. Pooled cross-sectional time-series analysis of Florida counties reveals that although population density and economic conditions influence spending, politics and institutions matter. Political ideology as indicated by presidential and gubernatorial Democratic vote share has a positive influence on all three spending categories. The findings also reveal that county adoption of a home rule charter leads to greater emphasis on developmental and redistributive rather than allocational functions.

First published on December 10, 2008, doi:10.1177/0275074008328171

The American Review of Public Administration 2010;40:29.

A more recent version of this article appeared on January 1, 2010


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