In this paper, we consider the sentences of constitutional illegitimacy by the Italian Constitutional Court in the First Republic (1956--1992) as a measure of its independence from politicians. We focus on the Court's incidental review and test whether the Court's independence increases when...

This article analyzes the effects of the compliance relationship between the governing party and two competing bureaus producing differentiated goods. We assume that the three players simultaneously and independently take their decision in terms of production and rents with perfect knowledge of...

The literature on corruption makes unclear predictions on the relations between subsidiarity principle, according to which public decisions should be done at the lower level government possible, and corruption of public officials. In this paper, we compare two alternative regimes, centralised...