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Political economy

the prediction that project spending grows with the number of districts because each district bears only a fraction of the cost of its own projects.

In political economy, law of 1/n refers to the prediction that project spending grows with the number of districts because each district bears only a fraction of the cost of its own projects. This meaning comes from Weingast (1981) in Journal of Political Economy.[1]

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References

Weingast, B. R., Shepsle, K. A., & Johnsen, C. (1981). The Political Economy of Benefits and Costs: A Neoclassical Approach to Distributive Politics. Journal of Political Economy, 89(4), 642-664. https://doi.org/10.1086/260997

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