Local council members’ view on inter-municipal cooperation: Does office-related self interest matter?
We analyze data from a survey among local council members in 59 German municipali-ties. We ask council members whether their home municipality should cooperate with neigh-boring municipalities in the provision of public services like childcare or road maintenance. Their answers are clearly driven by...
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I publikationen: | MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 47-2016) |
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Materialtyp: | Artikel |
Språk: | engelska |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2016
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Sammanfattning: | We analyze data from a survey among local council members in 59 German municipali-ties. We ask council members whether their home municipality should cooperate with neigh-boring municipalities in the provision of public services like childcare or road maintenance. Their answers are clearly driven by office-related self-interest. Council members who have more political power and thus have more power to lose if their home municipality cooperates are more likely oppose inter-municipal cooperation. This interpretation receives further backing by the fact that delegates’ support for inter-municipal cooperation increases in the population size of their home municipality but decreases in the size of its neighbors. |
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Fysisk beskrivning: | 32 Seiten |
ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
DOI: | 10.17192/es2024.0536 |