Public enterprise pricing as redistributive policy.
This paper analyzes public enterprise pricing as a form of redistributive politics. Beyond regulation and public goods, governments provide goods and services on a fee‐for‐service basis. Governments recover all or part of the costs of these services through user charges. These charges distribute cos...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 365 - 388 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2025
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