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Studies in Public Choice Joshua Hall Marcus Witcher Editors Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History Volume 3 Studies in Public Choice Volume 39 Series Editor Randall G. Holcombe, Tallahassee, FL, USA Founding Editor Gordon Tullock, Fairfax, VA, USA More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6550 Joshua Hall Marcus Witcher (cid:129) Editors Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History Volume 3 123 Editors JoshuaHall Marcus Witcher Department ofEconomics Department ofEconomics West Virginia University West Virginia University Morgantown,WV,USA Morgantown,WV,USA ISSN 0924-4700 Studies in PublicChoice ISBN978-3-030-11312-4 ISBN978-3-030-11313-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11313-1 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2018966839 ©SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2019 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission orinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Acknowledgements We would like to thank theCenter for Free Enterprise at West Virginia University for support for this project. v Contents 1 Club Women and the Provision of Local Public Goods . . . . . . . . . 1 Jayme Lemke and Julia R. Norgaard 2 Samuel J. Tilden, Iron Money and the Election of 1876 . . . . . . . . . 21 Clifford F. Thies 3 The Impact of Decentralization on Municipalities: Evidence from the Municipal Home Rule Movement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Jessica Hennessey 4 Organized Opposition: The Anti-Federalist Political Network . . . . 51 Michael J. Faber and Robi Ragan 5 Bootleggers and Baptists in the Passage of Federal Surface Mining Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Jessi L. Troyan 6 Pro-consumer Legislation Supported by Elites: The Curious Case of the 1866 Post Roads Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Aaron M. Honsowetz 7 Economic History of the Relationship Between Congress and NASA: A Case Study of the Apollo Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Leonid Krasnozhon and William Maye 8 AnEconomicInterpretationofRhode Island’s1788Referendum on the Constitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray vii viii Contents 9 A Hard Day’s Night: Provision of Public Evening Schools in the United States, 1870–1910 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Linda English 10 Private Seeking of Private Monopoly in Early American Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Howard Bodenhorn Contributors Howard Bodenhorn Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA Linda English Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA Michael J. Faber Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA Jessica Hennessey Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA Ruth Wallis Herndon History Department, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA Aaron M. Honsowetz Bethany College, Bethany, WV, USA Leonid Krasnozhon Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA Jayme Lemke Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA William Maye CoreData Research, Boston, MA, USA John E. Murray Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, USA Julia R. Norgaard Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USA Robi Ragan Mercer University, Macon, GA, USA Clifford F. Thies Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, USA Jessi L. Troyan Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy, Charleston, WV, USA ix Chapter 1 Club Women and the Provision of Local Public Goods JaymeLemkeandJuliaR.Norgaard 1.1 Introduction As non-voting citizens with limited opportunities for formal education, women in the 19th and early 20th century United States had to get a little creative in their attempts to influence their communities and the nation. Many traditional paths to influenceweremadedifficultifnotimpossibleformostwomentoaccess.However, thisdoesnotmeanthatwomenwerenotpoliticallyandpracticallyinfluentialintheir communitiesinsignificantways. Oneparticularlyimportantvehicleforwomenseekingtomakeapublicdifference wastheformationofclubs,associations,andothervoluntarilyformedsocialorgani- zations.Navigatingwithinhistoricalconstraints,“womenusedclubsasameansof adaptationtotherolesocietyhadsetforthem”(Martin1987,p.30).Theseclubswere awayforwomentogettogether,educatethemselves,andfigureouthowtobetter theircommunities.Overtime,thesewomen’sclubsbecameconstructivesegments ofsocietyandanopportunityforwomentogainalegitimatevoiceandtoinfluence theircommunities. Clubwomeninthe19thcenturysuccessfullyorganizedtheproductionofawide varietyofclubgoodsandgoodscommonlyconsideredtobepublicinnature.The goods provided by women’s clubs included educational services, such as kinder- gartens,worktrainingprogramsforthepoororunemployed,andtrainingforteach- ers; social safety net programs, such as orphanages, settlement homes for recent immigrants, and care for the aged and sick; and a wide variety of public ameni- ties and services, including trash removal, street lighting, parks and playgrounds, B J.Lemke ( ) MercatusCenter,GeorgeMasonUniversity,Fairfax,VA22030,USA e-mail:[email protected] J.R.Norgaard PepperdineUniversity,Malibu,CA90263,USA e-mail:[email protected] ©SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2019 1 J.HallandM.Witcher(eds.),PublicChoiceAnalysesofAmericanEconomicHistory, StudiesinPublicChoice39,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11313-1_1
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