Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History Volume 3

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in

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Joshua Hall Marcus Witcher   Editors

Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History Volume 3

Studies in Public Choice Volume 39

Series Editor Randall G. Holcombe, Tallahassee, FL, USA Founding Editor Gordon Tullock, Fairfax, VA, USA

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6550

Joshua Hall Marcus Witcher •

Editors

Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History Volume 3

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Editors Joshua Hall Department of Economics West Virginia University Morgantown, WV, USA

Marcus Witcher Department of Economics West Virginia University Morgantown, WV, USA

ISSN 0924-4700 Studies in Public Choice ISBN 978-3-030-11312-4 ISBN 978-3-030-11313-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11313-1

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Center for Free Enterprise at West Virginia University for support for this project.

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Contents

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Club Women and the Provision of Local Public Goods . . . . . . . . . Jayme Lemke and Julia R. Norgaard

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Samuel J. Tilden, Iron Money and the Election of 1876 . . . . . . . . . Clifford F. Thies

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The Impact of Decentralization on Municipalities: Evidence from the Municipal Home Rule Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Hennessey

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Organized Opposition: The Anti-Federalist Political Network . . . . Michael J. Faber and Robi Ragan

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Bootleggers and Baptists in the Passage of Federal Surface Mining Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessi L. Troyan

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Pro-consumer Legislation Supported by Elites: The Cu