Abstract:
This article focuses on the impact of education and neighborhood security, goods provided by local governments, on the quality of day-to-day life. Professor Fennell explains that although “[l]egal scholarship has typically assumed that the quality of locally provided goods is driven by some combination of market-like consumer behavior (‘exit’) and political activity (‘voice’),” it has neglected the “influence of user participation” and its implications for law. The purpose of this article is “to develop a more useful provision of local public goods.”