The paper briefly reviews recent research that adapts and extends the
Tiebout model of residential choice, paying special attention to those
studies which utilize Hirschman's exit, voice and loyalty model. The
paper argues that these are theoretically and empirically flawed since
they do not take account of Tiebout-rational intra-jurisdictional mov
es but concentrate upon potential exiting behavior. The article then t
ests the importance of the inter-/intrajurisdictional distinction usin
g a legit model of factors using data from the 1990 Economic and Socia
l Research Council Mobility Study (ECSRCMS) of London. Finding weak re
sults from this analysis, the article then offers a more powerful test
of factors predicting a move to jurisdictions with preferable tax rat
es.