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 •
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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
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