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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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| Published in: | MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 47-2016) |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | PDF Full Text |
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 32 Pages |
| ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
| DOI: | 10.17192/es2024.0536 |