caa a22 4500 475840305 CHVBK 20180406123859.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005120225111 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005120225111 Is the Median Voter a Clear-Cut Winner?: Comparing theMedian Voter Theory and Competing Theories in Explaining LocalGovernment Spending [Elektronische Daten] [Sultan Ahmed, Kenneth Greene] This paper attempts to test the power of the median model againstthe respective strength of other alternate models based onredistributive, political-institutional and interest group theoriesin explaining the demand for public spending in New York statecounties during 1990, 1980 and 1970. To execute the comparison ofthe performance of median voter model with that of each of thenonmedian voter ones, various nonnested tests such as J and JAtests, N-tilde, W and encompassing tests have been employed.Results of the study show that although the median voter model hasa marginal edge over the rival models based on the alternativetheories, it may not be relied upon solely when many otherinstitutional, redistributive and interest group factors are alsorelevant for explaining public spending. The results of this studydiffer from those in Congleton and Bennett (1995). We do not findthat interest group models are substantially weaker than the medianvoter model. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Ahmed Sultan Department of Economics, Binghamton University, 13902-6000, Binghamton, NY, USA aut Greene Kenneth Department of Economics, Binghamton University, 13902-6000, Binghamton, NY, USA aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 105/3-4(2000-12-01), 207-230 0048-5829 105:3-4<207 2000 105 11127 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005120225111 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005120225111 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ahmed Sultan Department of Economics, Binghamton University, 13902-6000, Binghamton, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Greene Kenneth Department of Economics, Binghamton University, 13902-6000, Binghamton, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 105/3-4(2000-12-01), 207-230 0048-5829 105:3-4<207 2000 105 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer