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The political cost of being soft on crime : evidence from a natural experiment

Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the Italian 2006 collective pardon releasing about one third of the prison population. The pardon created idiosyncratic incentives to recidivate across released individuals and...

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Management and performance in the public sector : evidence from German municipalities

Englmaier, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; … - 2022

We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial het-erogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...

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Does data disclosure improve local government performance? : evidence from Italian municipalities

Lockwood, Ben; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela; … - 2022

We exploit the introduction of an open data online platform - part of a transparency program initiated by the Italian Government in late 2014 - as a natural experiment to analyse the effect of data disclosure on mayors' expenditure and public good provision. First, we analyse the effect of the...

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Immunity

Reddy, Karthik; Schularick, Moritz; Skreta, Vasiliki - 2013

Legal provisions that protect politicians from arrest and prosecution exist throughout much of the modern democratic world. Why, and with what effects, do societies choose to place their politicians above the law? We examine the institution of immunity both theoretically and empirically. Our...

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Political accountability and real authority of government bureaucracy

Dodlova, Marina - 2013

Barro-Ferejohn model of political agency to study the relationship between the accountability of elected politicians and the … political accountability, the lower should be real authority at the bottom of the government hierarchy. Empirically, we find … that in countries with lower political accountability those in political power have less authority over the public …

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Intergovernmental grants as signals and the alignment effect : theory and evidence

Bracco, Emanuele; Lockwood, Ben; Porcelli, Francesco; … - 2015

This paper provides a simple political agency model to explain the effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on intergovernmental grants and election outcomes. Key features of the model are: (i) rational voters interpret public good provision as a signal of incumbent...

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Information, polarization and delegation in democracy

Schultz, Christian - 2003

This paper investigates the merits of different democratic institutions when politics is uni-dimensional, there is uncertainty both about the preferences of the future electorate and the future polarization of political parties, and politicians have better information about the state of the...

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Wind of change? : experimental survey evidence on the COVID-19 shock and socio-political attitudes in Europe

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F. M.; … - 2020

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 crisis has affected the way we think about (political) institutions, as well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, well into the first wave of the...

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The words that keep people apart : official language, accountability and fiscal capacity

Baronchelli, Adelaide; Foresta, Alessandra; Ricciuti, … - 2020

This paper empirically evaluates the impact of accountability on fiscal capacity. It adopts an instrumental variable … reliable and is negatively correlated with our measure of accountability in line with the hypothesis. The results in the second …

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Testing

Bergbauer, Annika B.; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual …

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