Local council members’ view on inter-municipal cooperation: Does office-related self interest matter?
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- Christian Bergholz & Ivo Bischoff, 2018. "Local council members’ view on intermunicipal cooperation: does office-related self-interest matter?," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(12), pages 1624-1635, December.
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Keywords
inter-municipal cooperation; politicians; survey; Germany; public choice;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-POL-2017-01-08 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-URE-2017-01-08 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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