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Public Preferences for Program Tradeoffs: Community Values for Budget Priorities
Author(s) -
Blomquist Glenn C.,
Newsome Michael A.,
Stone D. Brad
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
public budgeting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1540-5850
pISSN - 0275-1100
DOI - 10.1111/j.0275-1100.2004.02401003.x
Subject(s) - order (exchange) , democratic governance , corporate governance , set (abstract data type) , government (linguistics) , public economics , democracy , public good , budget constraint , marginal utility , good governance , state (computer science) , economics , business , public administration , microeconomics , political science , finance , computer science , politics , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , law , programming language
A growing literature concerns techniques to improve community‐based reforms and citizen‐centered governance in order to reinforce the trust in democratic government. We analyze a contingent choice technique that systematically collects information about individual citizens' relative values of a set of state public programs. Individual citizens are asked to allocate a fixed increment of public funds. Individuals reveal their marginal willingness to trade off (MWTTO) additions in one program for additions in another. MWTTO values provide program rankings and information concerning the relative strength of citizen preferences. An example of a contingent choice survey is described.