Deciding Who's Decisive: Municipality Break-Ups and the Behavior of Local Politicians
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Keywords
municipality break-ups; secession; referenda; municipal council;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-POL-2003-09-24 (Positive Political Economics)
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