Title | The Business of Being Mayor: Mayors and Fiscal Policy in U.S. Cities |
Publication Type | Unpublished |
Authors | Kirkland P |
Abstract | Does electing a business owner or executive have an effect on public policy? Business interests have a long history of involvement and influence in American politics, but we know relatively little about business owners and executives in public office. With an original dataset of 3,257 mayoral candidates from 263 U.S. cities between 1950 and 2007, I provide a fresh |
URL | https://patriciaakirkland.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/kirkland_business_mayors_090818.pdf |