The Impact of Municipality Mergers on Political Participation

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The citizen assembly of the Swiss canton Glarus decided to radically reduce the historical number of communes from 25 to three. Studies show that the financial and economic consequences are surprisingly small. This paper analyzes the effects on citizens’ vote participation as an indicator of their political involvement.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.48573/90kx-d664
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=2bb5f7eed8f12ea9493d0fa7f6a130ac63fba05c1c7d438cd40729061b259eea
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Creator Frey, Bruno S.; Briviba, Andre
Publisher FORS
Publication Year 2022
Rights Additional data use purposes: Research purposes, Teaching purposes, Education and training purposes; Zusätzliche Datennutzungszwecke: Forschungszwecke, Lehrzwecke, Bildungs- und Ausbilundszwecke; Finalités supplémentaires d’utilisation des données: Fins de recherche, Fins d’enseignement, Fins d’éducation et de formation; Sondergenehmigung: Nach vorheriger Zustimmung des Autors; Special permission: With prior agreement of author; Permission spéciale: Accord préalable de l'auteur·trice
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Discipline Social Sciences
Spatial Coverage Schweiz; Switzerland; Suisse; Westeuropa; Western Europe; Europe occidentale; Europa; Europe; Europe