Sharing Competences: The Impact of Local Institutional Settings on Voter Turnout
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Keywords
Voter turnout; local institutions; inter-municipal cooperation; Wahlbeteiligung; lokale Institutionen; Gemeindeneuordnung;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
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