The Bidding Game: Competitive Funding Regimes and the Political Targeting of Urban Programme Schemes
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John, Peter; Ward, Hugh; Dowding, Keith
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Public bodies adopt procedures for the competitive bidding for funds in the belief that they improve public welfare, while critics regard such practices as a waste of resources and open to political manipulation. We test the operation of a competitive bidding regime through Tobit models of data drawn from successful and unsuccessful bids in four years of the Single Regeneration Budget programme in England. We derive hypotheses from a model of competitive bidding, the official evaluation of the...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2004 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/20712 |
Source: | British Journal of Political Science |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0007123404000110 |
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