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Table 1Term of office and party membership of ministers managing the allocation of EU structural funds

Region (Land) / Ministry managing EU structural funds (managing authority) / EU structural fund / Name of minister in 1999 and 2000 / Party membership / Date of regional election / Submission of first draft of regional investment plan to the European Commission / Commission decision on the regional investment plan
Baden-Württemberg / Ministry of Agriculture / EFRE / Staiblin, Gerdi / CDU / 24-Mar-96 / 6-Jul-00 / 22-Mar-01
Baden-Württemberg / Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs / ESF / Repnik, Friedhelm / CDU / 24-Mar-96 / 6-Jul-00 / 22-Mar-01
Bavaria / Ministry of Economics, Transport and Technology / EFRE / Wiesheu, Otto / CSU / 13-Sep-98 / 26-Apr-00 / 3-Jul-01
Bavaria / Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Family, Women and Health / ESF / Stamm, Barbara / CSU / 13-Sep-98 / 26-Apr-00 / 3-Jul-01
Brandenburg / Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Women / ESF / Hildebrandt, Regine / SPD / 5-Sep-99 / 15-Mar-00 / 29-Dec-00
Brandenburg / Ministry of Economics / EFRE / Fürniß, Wolfgang / CDU / 5-Sep-99 / 15-Mar-00 / 29-Dec-00
Hesse / Ministry of Economics, Transport and Development / EFRE / Posch, Dieter / FDP / 7-Feb-99 / 27-Apr-00 / 31-May-01
Hesse / Ministry of Social Affairs / ESF / Mosiek-Urbahn, Marlies / CDU / 7-Feb-99 / 27-Apr-00 / 31-May-01
Lower Saxony / Ministry of Economics, Technology and Transport / EFRE / Fischer, Peter / SPD / 1-Mar-98 / 13-Apr-00 / 22-Mar-01
Lower Saxony / Ministry of Women, Labour and Social Affairs / ESF / Merk, Heidrun / SPD / 1-Mar-98 / 13-Apr-00 / 22-Mar-01
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Ministry of Economics / EFRE/ESF / Eggert, Rolf / SPD / 27-Sep-98 / 27-Apr-00 / 1-Aug-00
North Rhine-Westphalia / Ministry of Economics and Small Business, Technology and Transport / EFRE/ESF / Steinbrück, Peer / SPD / 14-May-95 / 19-Apr-00 / 12-Feb-01
North Rhine-Westphalia / Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Urban Development, Culture and Sports / ESF / Brusis, Ilse / SPD / 14-May-95 / 19-Apr-00 / 12-Feb-01
Rhineland-Palatinate / Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Health / ESF / Gerster, Florian / SPD / 24-Mar-96 / 15-Mar-00 / 22-Mar-01
Rhineland-Palatinate / Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viniculture / EFRE / Bauckhage, Hans-Artur / FDP / 24-Mar-96 / 15-Mar-00 / 22-Mar-01
Saarland / Ministry of Economics / EFRE / Georgi, Hans-Peter / CDU / 5-Sep-99 / 19-Apr-00 / 22-Mar-01
Saarland / Ministry of Women, Labour, Health and Social Affairs / ESF / Görner, Regina / CDU / 5-Sep-99 / 19-Apr-00 / 22-Mar-01
Saxony / Ministry of Economics and Labour / EFRE/ESF / Schommer, Kajo / CDU / 19-Sep-99 / 15-Dec-99 / 19-Apr-00
Saxony-Anhalt / Ministry of Finance / EFRE / Gerhards, Wolfgang / SPD / 26-Apr-98 / 15-Mar-00 / 22-Mar-01
Saxony-Anhalt / Ministry of Feeding, Agriculture and Forestry / ESF / Keller, Johann Konrad / SPD / 26-Apr-98 / 15-Mar-00 / 22-Mar-01
Schleswig-Holstein / Ministry of Economics, Technology and Transport / EFRE / Bülck, Horst Günter / SPD / 27-Feb-00 / 26-Apr-00 / 25-Jul-01
Schleswig-Holstein / Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Health / ESF / Moser, Heide / SPD / 27-Feb-00 / 26-Apr-00 / 25-Jul-01
Thuringia / Ministry of Economics, Labour and Infrastructure / EFRE/ESF / Schuster, Franz / CDU / 12-Sep-99 / 8-Nov-99 / 15-Dec-00

Source: Information was partly provided by the regional ministries and partly taken from the webpages of the regional managing authorities.

Table 2Summary statistics of the independent variables

N / Mean / SD / Min / Max
Local funding per capita (million €) / 424 / 33.41 / 66.27 / .00 / 787.19
GDP per capita (thousand €) / 424 / 2.18 / 8.12 / 1.00 / 6.80
Geographical size (thousand km²) / 418 / .83 / .61 / .04 / 3.06
Unemployment rates / 419 / 1.48 / 5.57 / 1.00 / 26.70
Urbanisation / 424 / .22 / .42 / .00 / 1.00
Vote share of Land prime minister’s party / 424 / 46.48 / 8.54 / 26.27 / 68.44
Marginality / 424 / -.18 / .12 / -.55 / -.00

Table 3Correlations between themain independent variables

Vote share / GDP per capita / Urbanisation / Unemployment rates / Geographical size
Vote share / 1.00
GDP per capita / -.09
(.06) / 1.00
Urbanisation / -.09
(.06) / .55
(.00) / 1.00
Unemployment rates / -.06
(.21) / -.31
(.00) / .15
(.00) / 1.00
Geographical size / -.12
(.01) / -.48
(.00) / -.61
(.00) / .08
(.09) / 1.00

Pairwise correlation coefficients for fully non-missing observations.

P-values are given in parentheses.