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Moderating political extremism: single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule

Bordignon, Massimo; Tabellini, Guido - 2009

We compare single ballot vs dual ballot elections under plurality rule, assuming sincere voting and allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under the dual ballot, the number of parties is larger but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy is smaller, because their...

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Who do you blame in local finance? An analysis of municipal financing in Italy

Bordignon, Massimo; Piazza, Santino - 2010

A 1999 reform allowed Italian Mayors to partially substitute a more accountable source of tax revenue (the property tax) with a less transparent one (a surcharge on the personal income tax). Theoretical analysis suggests this should give incompetent Mayors a less costly way to hide themselves,...

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The importance of the electoral rule: Evidence from Italy

Bordignon, Massimo; Monticini, Andrea - 2011

We employ bootstrap methods (Efron (1979)) to test the effect of an important electoral reform implemented in Italy from 1993 to 2001, that moved the system for electing the Par-liament from purely proportional to plurality rule (for 75% of the seats). We do not find any effect on either the...

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Sorge um Europa: Schuldenkrise und (drohendes) Defizitverfahren gegen Italien – wie geht es weiter?

Meyer, Dirk; Busch, Berthold; Matthes, Jürgen; Belke, … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 72 (2019) 01, pp. 3-22

-Haushaltsvorschriften noch immer nicht erfüllt. Stürzt Italien Europa in eine neue Krise? Dirk Meyer, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, sieht … den Fortbestand der Europäischen Währungsunion durch Italien infrage gestellt. Mangelndes Können und Wollen der …, Köln, schadet der Kurs der Regierung Italien. Die italienische Regierung habe jetzt zwar begrenzte Korrekturen an ihren …

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Electoral Rules and Municipal Finances: Evidence From Two Reforms in Italy

Bordignon, Massimo; Turati, Gilberto - In: CESifo DICE Report 12 (2014) 1, pp. 24-28

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Stop invasion! The electoral tipping point in anti-immigrant voting

Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Slerca, Edoardo; … - 2020

Why do anti-immigrant political parties have more success in areas that host fewer immigrants? Using regression discontinuity design, structural breaks search methods and data from a sample of Italian municipalities, we show that the relationship between the vote shares of anti-immigrant parties...

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