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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發表在:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 47-2016)
Autoren: Bergholz, Christian, Bischoff, Ivo
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語言:英语
出版: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2016
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總結: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.
實物描述:32 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0536