Xie, FengLevinson, David M2016-05-022016-05-022009Xie, Feng, and David Levinson (2009) Governance Choice on a Serial Network. Public Choice 141: 189–212 .https://hdl.handle.net/11299/179984This paper analyzes governance choice in a two-level federation in providing road infrastructure across jurisdictions. Two models are proposed to predict the choice of centralized or decentralized spending structure on a serial road network shared by two districts. While the first model considers simple Pigouvian behavior of governments, the second explicitly models political forces at both a local and central level. Both models led to the conclusions that the spending structure is chosen based on a satisfactory comprise between benefits and costs associated with alternative decision-making processes, and that governance choice may spontaneously shift as the infrastructure improves temporally.enGovernance choice, Transportation, Infrastructure, Fiscal federalismArticlehttp://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/s11127-009-9448-5