We analyze the effect of different legislature size on per capita regional expenditure in Italy. According to the theory, legislature size has an indefinite effect on government spending because logrolling and transaction costs may have canceling effects. We find a large and significantly...

This paper investigates on the demographic, economic, political and cultural determinants of direct democracy in European States using an index of citizen law-making for 43 countries. The test is interesting since there are important variations across European countries in the referendum and...

In questo lavoro si analizzano diverse determinanti della dimensione dei disavanzi nel Regno d'Italia durante il periodo 1861-1914. In particolare, utilizziamo un modello di elettore mediano che include l'ipotesi di illusione fiscale. L'analisi empirica, attraverso una metodologia VECM, da un...

La letteratura di storia economica del fascismo rileva come le politiche economiche del regime fossero indirizzate verso l'aumento di questo fattore della produzione. In questo lavoro si analizza il processo di accumulazione del capitale in Italia tra il 1881 e il 1938 per verificarne la...

The Italian fiscal history is characterised by a number of fiscal consolidations. In this paper we characterise fiscal policy in terms of non-linear deterministic processes. We find that government spending and taxes can be described as being non-linear trend stationary processes instead of unit...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate about the electoral rules in Italy. In particular, we simulate some voting rules to test what is the best electoral system on the basis of a utility function that takes into account two indices: representativeness and governability. As long as...

In questo lavoro viene analizzata la partecipazione dei cittadini ai referendum abrogativi con particolare riferimento a quattro possibili determinati. I risultati mostrano che i referendum distributivi hanno una partecipazione al voto maggiore di quella dei referendum di efficienza; maggiore...

In this note we empirically analyze the link between state capacity and civil conflict via the manufacturing sector, which is the source of wealth for an emerging new elite interested in obtaining political representation, and is the outcome of a new political equilibrium more in tune with...