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作者

来源

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.70,P.229-245

语言

英文

关键字

Secession; Diversity; Voter behaviour; Municipal mergers; ETHNIC DIVERSITY; PUBLIC-GOODS; MERGER REFERENDA; SCHOOL DISTRICTS; CONSOLIDATION; GOVERNMENT; PROVISION; PREFERENCES; SIZE; REDISTRIBUTION

作者单位

[Lapointe, Simon] VATT Inst Econ Res, Arkadiankatu 7, Helsinki 00100, Finland. Lapointe, S (reprint author), VATT Inst Econ Res, Arkadiankatu 7, Helsinki 00100, Finland. E-Mail: simon.lapointe@vatt.fi

摘要

This paper studies voters' preferences on municipal borders in a setting with cohabiting linguistic communities. It takes advantage of unique data from referendum results in the Canadian province of Quebec in 2004, which allow a direct investigation of voter preferences. I find that differences in income and language affect the likelihood of secession. Notably, I also find that these effects are interdependent, suggesting that the support for a local secession is affected to some degree by out-group aversion. Finally, I find that voters are willing to pay additional taxes to live in their jurisdiction of choice.