Urban Economics

Running Head : Urban economics

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Political Jurisdictions

There have been piling pressures for counties and other political jurisdictions to merge but with little success , instead they have continually grown . The key determinant of the size as well as the number of jurisdictions is the variation as well as tradeoffs between possible economies of scale arising from increased size and heterogeneity . People are happy to forego racial economies of scale that would come with merging in preference for both racial , religious

and income homogeneity in their jurisdictions . This is not out of xenophobia rather it stems from a preference for similar public goods and the natural desire to be among people with common interest and characteristics . Division along income lines naturally occur owing to the people 's desire to avoid the redistribution effect resulting from financing local public goods (Ahmad Brosio , 2008

Division of the locations into homogenous social and economic groups makes it better for authorities to target public services to better satisfy the population . Not least because residents would be more aware of government activities but the small nature of the jurisdictions make it possible for evaluation of the services and comparisons with other areas . In addition , it is more efficient to divide up the metropolitan since this would cut back the costs of public services by preventing spillovers to different political jurisdictions and are designed in such a manner to optimize scale economies

The divisions as well as well make...