The Homevoter Hypothesis

How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies

William A. Fischel

    Preface

    1 An Asset-Market Approach to Local Government

    2 Local Government's Corporate Form

    3 Capitalization, Zoning, and the Tiebout Hypothesis

    4 The Median Voter in Local Government Politics

    5 Serrano and the California Tax Revolt

    6 The Fruits of School-Finance Centralization

    7 The Race to the Top in Environmental Protection

    8 "Beggar Thy Neighbor" and Land fill Location

    9 How Homevoters Remade Metropolitan Areas

    10 Sprawl, Metropolitanism, and Local Control

    11 Reforming and Reaffirming Local Government

    Case References

    General References

    Index

  • Cover: The Homevoter Hypothesis
  • A photo of the author

William Fischel is Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College.