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Kristien Werck, Bruno
Heyndels and Benny Geys
The Impact of ‘Central Places’ on Spatial
Spending Patterns: Evidence from Flemish Local Government Cultural
Expenditures
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Governments often see it as their responsibility to support cultural
life and at times spend a significant amount of resources in the
pursuit of this goal. The present paper analyses whether and how
municipalities influence each other in this decision to spend
resources on the arts (using data on local government cultural
spending in 304 Flemish municipalities in 2002). Following ‘central
place theory’, the focal point of the analysis is the idea that –
especially for cultural expenditures – large municipalities (and,
specifically, ‘central places’) may affect their neighbours’
behaviour differently than small municipalities. The empirical
analysis is supportive of this idea. Indeed, we show that Flemish
municipalities’ cultural spending is generally positively affected
by that in neighbouring municipalities. This pattern is, however,
significantly more complex for municipalities neighbouring the 13
largest Flemish cities. |
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