“Love thy neighbour”? The effect of income and language differences on votes for municipal secessions

Lapointe, Simon

doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2018.04.008

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“…Regions may demand independence or secession when their own income level compensates the expected diseconomies of scale. Indeed, using data from referendum results in the Canadian province of Quebec in 2004, Lapointe () shows that income differences among localities increase the likelihood of a secession.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cooperation among Local Governments to Deliver Public Services

Porto

Paty

2018

Politics & Policy

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Cooperation among local governments has been encouraged to enable the aggregation of resources and improved public sector efficiency. The objective of this article is to contribute to the emerging literature on the factors driving intermunicipal cooperation. Using a unique panel dataset of 36,000 French municipalities for 1995‐2002, we estimate the relationship between cooperation decision and the fiscal revenues raised to provide local public goods. We find that the cooperation choice of neighboring municipalities is extremely relevant for the cooperation decision. A municipality will be more inclined to join an existing community if its neighbors have already joined an intermunicipal jurisdiction. We also find evidence that, ceteris paribus, a positive difference between the expected fiscal revenues of a cooperating locality and the actual revenues realized by an isolated locality is required to set up the agreement.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cooperation among Local Governments to Deliver Public Services

Porto

Paty

2018

Politics & Policy

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“…Further support for this hypothesis has been found in analysis of secession referenda held in Quebec in 2004 (Lapointe 2018). According to that study, rich towns showed greater support for secession.…”

Section: Economic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…This type of argument is supported by the quantitative analysis of Lapointe (2018) studying secession referenda in Quebec. In the earlier part of this text, we mentioned his results related to higher support for secessions in richer towns.…”

Section: Local Identity/cultural Factorsmentioning

confidence: 86%

From post-communist democratic laissez-faire to prevention of territorial fragmentation: tightening the rules of municipal splits in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990

Swianiewicz

2021

Miscellanea Geographica

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The article discusses municipal boundary changes in Central and Eastern Europe, concentrating on the heavily under-researched phenomenon of municipal splits. The first part describes the basic facts of municipal secessions in the region analysed. The second part presents a model explaining the national and municipal level factors behind the variation in the occurrence of successful split initiatives. It distinguishes between national institutional settings, economic, identity (cultural) and local political factors.

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“…The risk of break-up is present in other contexts as well. An example is provided by the demergers of municipalities in some OECD countries after a wave of mergers (De Souza et al, 2015;Lapointe, 2018). Political parties are also often composed of different factions that can decide to separate at a point because of opposing political views (Ceron, 2015).…”

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Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?

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Abstract:Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when individuals have the option to separate, according to the degree of decentralization of decisionmaking. We show that increasing the number of decisions made at the local level within a smaller group reduces the likelihood that individuals vote in favor of a configuration that includes no global good for interacting only within their local group. Voting for such a configuration is more likely when global group members are less cooperative and local group members are more cooperative. Reinforcing local group identity has no impact on votes. Keywords:Decentralization, break-up of groups, voting behavior, public goods, experiment JEL codes: This version: 08 May 2018Abstract: Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when individuals have the option to separate, according to the degree of decentralization of decision-making. We show that increasing the number of decisions made at the local level within a smaller group reduces the likelihood that individuals vote in favor of a configuration that includes no global good for interacting only within their local group. Voting for such a configuration is more likely when global group members are less cooperative and local group members are more cooperative. Reinforcing local group identity has no impact on votes.

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“Love thy neighbour”? The effect of income and language differences on votes for municipal secessions

Cited by 11 publications

References 40 publications

Cooperation among Local Governments to Deliver Public Services

Cooperation among Local Governments to Deliver Public Services

From post-communist democratic laissez-faire to prevention of territorial fragmentation: tightening the rules of municipal splits in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990

Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?

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