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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199719
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668874
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199710
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479915
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404317
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263741
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249272
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882348
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Voters' response to public policies : evidence from a natural experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017 - First Version: November 2016
We study voters' response to public policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the Italian 2006 collective pardon that created idiosyncratic incentives to recidivate across released individuals and municipalities. We show that municipalities where resident pardoned individuals had a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781786
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Fact-checking politicians
Mattozzi, Andrea; Nocito, Samuel; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2022
We investigate the reaction of Italian Members of Parliament to a rigorous fact-checking of their public statements. Our research design relies on a novel randomized field experiment in collaboration with the leading Italian fact-checking company. Our results show that politicians are responsive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463503