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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...
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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...
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has a hard time providing an instrumental explanation for the existence of "accountability journalism". According to the … apply when a group of voters shares a common goal such as accountability and information is delivered via mass media. In …
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The first part of this paper outlines the concept of democratic accountability of central banks, and compares the legal … accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve … System). In the second part, we present a theory of central bank accountability. Two aspects of accountability are considered …
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accountability and transparency. The particular emphasis is on the comparative overview of major state-owned enterprises' missions …
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I exploit a reform that required Italian municipalities to disclose their balance sheetsbefore elections to study whether having more informed voters aects the political budgetcycle. To start, investment spending in the year before elections is 28.5% higher thanin the election year and this...
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In experimental investigations of the effect of real incentives, accountability-the implicit or explicit expectation of … incentives themselves. This confounding of accountability with incentives makes causal attributions of any effects found … problematic. We separate accountability and incentives, and find different effects. Accountability is found to reduce preference …
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data with greater government accountability as well as improved service delivery in key sectors, including health and … levels of accountability and improved service delivery in developing countries? To answer this question, the paper constructs … a unique data set that operationalizes open government data, government accountability, service delivery, as well as …
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