School bond elections receive little attention in political science or education policy literature, and the research that does exist is based on the observations of a single or a hand full of elections. Given the importance of bond elections as a revenue generating mechanism for schools as well as being one of the only cases where citizens can directly make decisions in regard to school district policy, we believe that more attention should be paid to this important policy process. This paper adds to the sparse literature on school bond elections by analyzing the determinants of success for 695 bond elections in the state of Texas
