Adaptive governance of social-ecological systems depends on adaptive institutions. Efforts
to understand the factors affecting adaptive institutions have identified many variables, but …

Looking at two cases of community forests (CF) in Eastern North America, this article
examines their institutional features in order to assess whether they are conducive to …

We contrast two archetypal modes of research in principal-agency theory and in public
administration: an aggregated mode which regards the agency as a unified whole, and a …

Research on zoning typically assumes that city planners aim to maximise housing prices
with their land use decisions, either explicitly for public choice reasons or implicitly through …

This research studies the location of development within local governments that are
overlapped by multiple school districts. The hypothesis is that local governments will be …

We provide the first parcel-level, time-series empirical analysis of municipal annexation
behavior. We also exploit a unique natural experiment created by the incorporation and …

This study posits and tests the viability of a new unit of analysis for local public goods in
metropolitan areas: overlapping government combinations (OGCs). Counties, municipalities …

In this study, we investigate whether non-public school enrolment affects the performance of
public school districts. If homeschooling and private schools act as competition, public …

School district and municipal borders do not always align. Noncongruent borders can create
a fiscal commons problem where new development does not entirely “pay its way.” In …

Efforts to estimate the effect of having more school districts (ie, having more competition
among school districts) have been hampered by the difficulty of finding a good instrument for …