is an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut. His primary areas of research are government fi nance, budgeting, fi nancial management and the design and implementation of citizen preference revelation and citizen participation mechanisms.

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In this article, we explore the influence of tax price information on citizen preferences for taxes and spending using mail surveys. We explore the effects on service support when varying levels of cost information. We also observe how the magnitude of service costs influences service support. While the presence of cost information corresponded with lower levels of respondent support for the most costly services, it was associated with higher levels of support for less expensive services. These effects were the same whether the tax price represented the respondent's actual household cost or the jurisdiction average household cost for each service.