Institutions and Incentives in Public Policy: An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market Decision-Making

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Institutions and Incentives in Public Policy: An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market Decision-Making explores, both in theory and in practice, the consequences of using public policy as a tool to achieve specific individual and social goals, as well as its impact on private solutions to address such goals. The chapters examine the institutional incentives that operate in non-market settings, both governmental and non-governmental, using the theoretical frameworks of market process theory and public choice theory, they analyze a diverse set of contemporary public policy issues at both the domestic and international levels. Authored by individuals from a variety of disciplines with diverse interests in public policy, this work includes discussions of topics, such as foreign aid, education policy, environmental policy, health care policy, and the construction of private cities. This volume is relevant to scholars, students, policymakers, and knowledgeable citizens interested in the study of economics, political science, public policy, as well as those interested in particular policies rather than specific disciplines.

Contents

Introduction
Rosolino A. Candela, Rosemarie Fike, and Roberta Herzberg 

Chapter 1: Rise of a Centropoly: Good Intentions, Distorted Incentives, and the Cloaked Costs of Top-Down Reform in US Public Education
Martha Bradley-Dorsey 

Chapter 2: Group Identity and Unintended Consequences of School Desegregation
Nathaniel Burke 

Chapter 3: Compensating the Innocent: Hayekian Considerations for Wrongful Conviction Compensation Statutes
Dora Duru 

Chapter 4: Rent-Seeking in Medicaid Managed Care
Neil McCray 

Chapter 5: Banking on the Masses: Mainstreaming Marginal Legal Entrepreneurship along with the Trappings of Transitional Gains, 1910 to 1940
Thomas B. Storrs 

Chapter 6: Taking Time and Distinct Law Types Seriously: How the Effects of CSO Laws Vary by Type and Unfold over Time
Anthony J. DeMattee 

Chapter 7: A Tale of One City: Lavasa as a Coasian Prototype of a Private Urban Development
Vera Kichanova 

Chapter 8: The Political Effects of a Polycentric Order in Nigeria
Ifeoluwa M. Olawole  

Chapter 9: Environmental Justice, Incentives, and the Unknown: Knowledge Problems, Institutional Incentives, and Responses to Natural Disaster Scenarios
Emil Panzaru  

Chapter 10: Unintended Consequences of a U.S. Meat Tax
Alison Grant  

Chapter 11: Institutional Differences in the Stewardship and Research Output of U.S. Herbaria
Alexis Garretson  

Chapter 12: Introducing a Theory of Asset Specificity for Hacking Services
Karl Grindal