This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Besley T, Coate S (2001) Issue unbundling via citizens’ initiatives. Discussion Paper 2857. Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
Bundesamt für Statistik (2000) Oeffentliche Bildungsausgaben: Finanzindikatoren 1998, under the collaboration of Egloff M, Muehlemann K. Bundesamt für Statistik, Neuchâtel
Card D, Payne AA (2002) School finance reform, the distribution of school spending, and the distribution of student test scores. Journal of Public Economics 83:49–82
Clotfelter C, Glennie E, Ladd H, Vigdor J (2006) Would higher salaries keep teachers in high-poverty Schools? Evidence from a policy intervention in North Carolina. Working Paper 12285, NBER
Downes TA, Figlio DN (1997) School finance reforms, tax limits and student performance: do reforms level up or dumb down? Discussion Paper 1142-97, Institute for Research on Poverty
Downes TA, Dye RF, McGuire TJ (1998) Do limits matter? Evidence on the effects of tax limitations on student performance. Journal of Urban Economics 43:401–417
EDK (2001) Schweizer Beitrag für die Datenbank Eurybase – the Information Database on Education in Europe. EDK Schweizerische Konferenz der kantonalen Erziehungsdirektoren and Bundesamt für Bildung und Wissenschaft (eds) Information Dokumentation Erziehung Schweiz, Bern
Feld LP, Kirchgässner G (2001) The political economy of direct legislation: direct democracy in local and regional decision-making. Economic Policy 33:329–367
Feld LP, Matsusaka JG (2003) Budget referendums and government spending: evidence from Swiss cantons. Journal of Public Economics 87:2703–2724
Feld LP, Fischer JAV, Kirchgässner G (2006) The effect of direct democracy on income redistribution: evidence for Switzerland. Working paper 1837, CESifo, Munich
Figlio DN (1997) Did the tax revolt reduce school performance? Journal of Public Economics 65:245–269
Figlio DN (1997a) Teacher salaries and teacher quality. Economic Letters 55:267–271
Figlio DN (1998) Short-term effects of a 1990s-ERA property tax limit: panel evidence on Oregon’s measure 5. National Tax Journal 51:55–70
Figlio DN, O’Sullivan A (2001) The local response to tax limitation measures: do local governments manipulate voters to increase revenues? Journal of Law and Economics 44:233–257
Fischer JAV (2005a) Do institutions of direct democracy tame the leviathan? Swiss evidence on the structure of expenditure for public education. Working paper 2005-22, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen
Fischer JAV (2005b) The impact of direct democracy on society. Doctoral Thesis 3074, University of St Gallen, http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/www/edis.nsf/ wwwDisplayIdentifier/3074/FILE/dis3074.pd
Fischer JAV (2005c) The impact of direct democracy on public education: performance of Swiss students in reading. Working paper 2005-10, Department of Economics, University of St Gallen
Fischer JAV (2006) The impact of direct democracy on public education: evidence for Swiss students in reading, mathematics and natural science. Mimeo, Hoover Institution, University of Stanford
Freitag M, Bühlmann M (2003) Der Einfluss sozioökonomischer Bedingungen, organisierter Interessen und politischer Institutionen auf die Bildungsausgaben im kantonalen Vergleich. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 9:139–168
Gerber E (1996) Legislative response to the threat of popular initiatives. American Journal of Political Science 40:99–128
Germann RE (2002) Die Kantone: Gleichheit und Disparität. In: Klöti U et al. (eds) Handbuch der Schweizer Politik 3, überarbeitete Auflage. NZZ Verlag, Zürich, pp 385–419
Grob U, Wolter SC (2005) Demographie und Bildungsausgaben. Discussion paper 7, Department of Economics, University of Bern
Hanushek EA (2002) Publicly provided education. In: Hanushek EA, Welch F (eds) Handbook of Public Economics, Vol. 4. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, pp 2045–2141
Hanushek EA, Kain JF, Rivkin SG (2004) Why public schools lose teachers. Journal of Human Resources 39:326–354
Hoxby CM (2000) Does competition among public schools benefit students and taxpayers. American Economic Review 90:1209–1238
Krueger AB (2002) Economic considerations and class size. Working Papers 8875, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, NBER
Matsusaka JG (1995) Fiscal effects of the voter initiative: evidence from the last 30 years. Journal of Political Economy 103:587–623
Matsusaka JG (2005) Direct democracy works. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 19:185–206
Meunier M (2006) Fonctions de production éducationelle: le cas de la Suisse. Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 142:579–615
Niskanen W (1975) Bureaucrats and politicians. Journal of Law and Economics 18:617–643
Poterba JM (1997) Demographic structure and the political economy of public education. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 16:48–66
Schaltegger CA (2001) The effects of federalism and democracy on the size of government: evidence from Swiss sub-national jurisdictions. Ifo Studien 47:145–162
Shadbegian RJ (2003) Did the property tax revolt affect local public education? Evidence from panel data. Public Finance Review 31:91–120
Stutzer A (1999) Demokratieindizes für die Kantone der Schweiz. Working Paper 23, IEW, University of Zurich
Warm TA (1989) Weighted maximum likelihood estimation of ability in item response theory. Psychometrika 54:427–450
Williamson OE (1964) The Economics of Discretionary Behavior: Managerial Objectives in a Theory of the Firm. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Fischer, J.A. (2008). Direct Democracy and Public Education in Swiss Cantons. In: Soguel, N.C., Jaccard, P. (eds) Governance and Performance of Education Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6446-3_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6446-3_7
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-1-4020-6445-6
Online ISBN: 978-1-4020-6446-3
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawEducation (R0)