Argues that the California Supreme Court's landmark decision, Serrano v. Priest, crippled the Tiebout system by divorcing local property wealth from school spending.

Questions the rationale behind judicial review of school finance schemes adopted by legislatures that are influenced by "property-rich" communities, and examines voter preference in the failed 1992 gubernatorial campaign of a New Hampshire legislator who ran on a property tax and school reform...

Tiebout’s "vote with your feet" model dispensed with political behavior in local government. The present article offers a political model borrowed from corporate finance. Local governments are viewed as municipal corporations whose shareholders are homeowners and whose collective property...