Do the executive members of German federal states act in the general interest of their federal state? A new study illustrates that this is not always the case. The authors also discuss possible reasons for “local favoritism”.
Mariana Lopes da Fonseca from the University of St.Gallen and Thushyanthan Baskaran from the University of Siegen wrote the study “Ministers and local favoritism: Evidence from the German federal states”.
In order to investigate whether state ministers prefer their home towns, the two co-authors of the study have data on the regional origin of government members in the eight western German states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate , Schleswig-Holstein and Saarland for the period from 1994 to 2013.
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The results of the study do not indicate such directly personal political incentives. The results also rule out non-political personal motives such as squinting at lucrative posts in the private sector after leaving politics.
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For example, the ministers want to meet demands for an additional school – with a corresponding allocation of teachers and other state employees – in their home community.
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