Church tower policy
In political science, church tower policy is used to describe political decisions that primarily favor a narrow target group or a specific region. As a rule, the politician concerned stands up for the interests of his own constituency or his closer home , often in a narrow-minded manner . This also applies to the executive , where the administration only takes into account the interests of its own municipality without including the circumstances of neighboring municipalities in decisions.
The name describes the advocacy of one's own congregation (the “ church tower ”) and effects that are only considered as far as one sees one's own church tower. All further effects on a larger scale take a back seat.
In political science, the majority vote is recognized as the danger that the MPs could pursue church tower politics, since their re-election depends solely on the approval of their own constituency, while proportional representation requires support in supraregional majorities.
Individual evidence
- Ursula Hermann (Red.): Knaur's large dictionary of the German language. The big Störig . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-426-26258-4 .
- Oliver Klöck: Legal protection for church tower politics? , NWVBl. 2000, 45-51.
See also
- Montabaur station for an example of church tower politics in Germany that has been cited again and again in recent years
- Cantonal spirit
- Shield citizens
- Dabbing
- Crowing angle
- Philistines
- provincialism
