Der gemeindliche Finanzausstattungsanspruch als Maßstab für den kommunalen Finanzausgleich.

»The Municipal Financial Endowment Claim as a Benchmark for Municipal Financial Equalization. Analysis of the Legal Situation in Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia«: This thesis provides a fundamental constitutional analysis concerning recognition and content of the municipal financial endowment claim as part of the guarantee of self-government in accordance with Art. 28 Abs. 2 Grundgesetz. The limits of the legislator's scope are shown and the municipal financial equalization in Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia is examined for its constitutionality. In particular, the principle of population refinement is critically scrutinized.