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Competitively elected women as policy makers
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2019
While still far from parity, female representation in politics has continuously increased over the last two decades worldwide. In light of this development, we analyze whether higher female representation has substantive effects on policy choices using the example of child care - a public good...
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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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Exposition to corruption and political participation : evidence from Italian municipalities
Giommoni, Tommaso - 2017
press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … reduces citizens participation: voter turnout decreases but characteristics of elected politicians are not affected; second …, politicians participation modifies: number of candidates lowers along with proportion of running freshmen. These results suggest …
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The economics of politics : patronage and political selection in Italy
Quaresima, Federico; Fiorillo, Fabio - 2016
instrument to control and reward politicians' loyalty throughout a legislature. Especially in a majoritarian electoral system …
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A simple four quadrants model to monitor the performance of local governments
Ballanti, Danilo; Dispotico, Roberto; Porcelli, Francesco; … - 2014
This paper, conducted as part of the research activities of SOSE S.p.A., develops a simple and innovative model to evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of information and fewer assumptions than traditional...
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The political cost of being soft on crime : evidence from a natural experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017
findings indicate that voters keep incumbent politicians accountable by conditioning their vote on the observed effects of …
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When women take all : direct election and female leadership
Cipullo, Davide - 2023
of female mayors substantially. The results are stronger in cities with a high pre-reform share of female politicians and … that direct election regimes ease the selection of competent politicians into office. …
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Vetting for virtue : democracy’s challenge in excluding criminals from office
Arntzen, Sigurd S.; Fiva, Jon H.; Sørensen, Rune Jorgen - 2024
This paper assesses the effectiveness of democratic systems in preventing individuals with criminal backgrounds from holding political office. Unlike many countries, Norway has no legal restrictions against felons running for office. We analyze local election candidates from 2003 to 2019, paired...
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Distributive politics inside the city? : the political economy of Spain's Plan E
Carozzi, Felipe; Repetto, Luca - 2017 - First Version: December 2016, this Version: September 2017
across neighbourhoods. In particular, we ask whether politicians use investment to target their own supporters. To this aim …
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Evidence on the political principal-agent problem from voting on public finance for concert halls
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
Principal-agent problems can arise when preferences of voters are not aligned with preferences of political representatives. Often the consequence of the political principal-agent problem is political catering to special interests. In this paper I provide examples of principal-agent problems...
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