What about metropolitan citizenship? Attitudinal attachment of residents to their city-region

Based on a survey of citizens of Greater Stuttgart, I examine the existence of a metropolitan citizenship and analyze the awareness of, satisfaction with, and attachment to a city-region in the multitier political structure of Germany. The analysis indicates that the residents know little about the regional planning association but that a considerable number of residents feel attached to the metropolitan level of politics. A majority of the citizens supports the city-regional cooperation and is satisfied with the output dimension of metropolitics. I use logistic regressions to determine the effects of personal resources, cognitive territorial orientations, and contextual factors on attitudinal attachment to the metropolitan level. Education, perceived quality of life, mobility, and attachment to the municipality produce the strongest effects. Therefore, there is evidence of a common metropolitan perspective in this initial insight into citizenship in German city-regions

Gray Peril or Loyal Support? The Effects of the Elderly on Educational Expenditures-super-

Do large concentrations of elderly represent a "gray peril" to maintaining adequate educational expenditures? The gray peril hypothesis is based on an assumption of instrumental self-interest in political behavior. In contrast, we argue that "loyalty" to community schools competes with economic self-interest and that older citizens are heterogeneous in their preferences. Copyright (c) 2004 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.