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Schools are more likely to be closed in neighbourhoods that lack a councillor. Researchers used school closures to probe whether councillors residence location had an impact on allocation of resources. Image: Petri Aaltonen / Yle Finnish councils are dominated by politicians from better-off neighbourhoods, and their decisions mean services are worse in less wealthy districts. Those are the findings of a new study, Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential Segregation, Political Representation and Local Public Goods, from the VATT Institute for Economic Research, which was published on Friday. The under-representation is likely due to the combination of lower turnout in poorer neighbourhoods and the tendency of voters to vote for local candidates despite the fact that elections are held at-large. This incentivises politicians to cater to the voters in their own neighbourhoods, said researcher

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