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Developing a critical model to evaluate the appropriateness of local body climate protection policies: the case of Freiburg
Galvin, Ray - 2009
Sub-national governments are now seen as having an important role to play in climate protection. Initial research in this area sought to identify their initiatives in climate change mitigation and theorize their role in relation to national and international climate protection policies. Because...
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The partisan effects of voter turnout : how conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: March 23, 2015
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using...
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The influence of management accounting departments within German municipal administrations
Hirsch, Bernhard; Nitzl, Christian; Schauß, Joachim - In: Financial accountability & management : in governments, … 31 (2015) 2, pp. 192-218
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Does accrual accounting improve municipalities' efficiency? : evidence from Germany
Lampe, H. W.; Hilgers, Dennis; Ihl, C. - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 40/42, pp. 4349-4363
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How well can the migration component of regional population change be predicted? : a machine learning approach applied to German municipalities
Weber, Hannes - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 45 (2020), pp. 143-178
migration (both within-country as well as international migration) at the level of municipalities for two demographic groups … municipalities (Gemeinden). The model is trained on a subset of these data from the period 2005-2009 and predicts net migration rates …
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Does highway accessibility influence local tax factors? : evidence from German municipalities
Dörr, Luisa; Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020
Germany since 1945. For non-agglomeration municipalities that lie on a convenient route between two larger cities the access … that highway access influences local tax setting in municipalities within 5 to 10 km road distance. Improved accessibility … increases property tax factors persistently by roughly 6 percentage points. Our effects are driven by peripheral municipalities …
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Outsourcing of public services in Europe and segmentation effects : the influence of labour market factors
Grimshaw, Damian; Rubery, Jill; Anxo, Dominique; … - In: European journal of industrial relations 21 (2015) 4, pp. 295-313
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The continuation of early austerity measures : the special case of Germany
Keller, Berndt - In: Transfer : European review of labour and research ; … 20 (2014) 3, pp. 387-402
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Why municipalities reject wind power : a study on municipal acceptance and rejection of wind power instalments in Sweden
Lindvall, Daniel - In: Energy policy 180 (2023), pp. 1-11
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Potentials of climate emergency declarations for degrowth transformations : the ambivalent stance of German municipalities in conflicts over a post-fossil future
Brokow-Loga, Anton; Krüger, Timmo - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 81 (2023) 5, pp. 523-537
This paper addresses the scope for action by municipalities in a climate emergency and places it in the framework of … ecomodern (urban) policy. We analyse the way in which two German ‘climate emergency municipalities’ translate conflicts of post … declared a climate emergency, research on the impact of these resolutions on the political orientation of municipalities is …
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