Dokument
| Titel: | Local council members’ view on inter-municipal cooperation: Does office-related self interest matter? |
| Autor: | Bergholz, Christian |
| Weitere Verfasser: | Bischoff, Ivo |
| Veröffentlicht: | 2016 |
| URI: | https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/es/2024/0536 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17192/es2024.0536 |
| ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
| DDC: | 330 Wirtschaft |
| Publikationsdatum: | 2024-01-19 |
| Lizenz: | https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ |
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| inter-municipal cooperation, survey, Germany, politicians, public choice |
Summary:
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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