Practice question · Select all that apply
Which follow from the fragmentation of the Spanish local map?
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- Three follow from four fifths of municipalities having under 5,000 people; one is a claim about efficiency.
- Specialist capacity has a minimum viable scale.
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- A. Provincial councils exist largely to supply capacity small municipalities lack
- B. Merger proposals recur without being carried through
- D. Most municipalities cannot employ the specialists a modern service requires
Why
The fourth confuses proximity with capacity. A municipality of eight hundred people is closer to its residents and cannot employ a planner, an engineer or a social services team, which is exactly the gap the provincial councils were built to fill and the reason merger proposals keep returning.
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