We assess the effect of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws on public corruption in the United States. Specifically, we investigate the impact of switching from a weak to a strong state-level FOIA law on corruption convictions of state and local government officials. The evidence suggests...

A new section of the Italian constitution.

In the era of «small government», policy was considered the right way to conceive the role of the state in society and in the economy. This was intended as a perspective able to reduce the room for politics, considered a (dangerous) clash of power and party interests, and ideology. Given the...

The entrepreneurship wants to increase the income of the entrepreneur and the income of the society, which contributes to sustaining the economic growth and development. It is very interesting to notice how the nowadays society develops the initiative and the entrepreneurial spirit as being...

German Social Democracy is facing tremendous challenges of societal and economic changes: party dealignment, a bourgeoisification of society, the rise of media democracy, and economic and cultural globalisation. The party's reaction - a third order change in its ideological objectives and a...

The economic literature on PPPs has generally overlooked agency problems within private consortia. We provide a first contribution in this direction, relying on a simple incomplete contracts framework where a Builder and an Operator set up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to carry out a contract...

New Economy is characterized by a strong IT development, leading to a knowledge society. The EU set out the basic rules and starts programs in order to support efforts to align the businesses, citizens and governments to the new era. eEurope program establishes priorities that the community...

The introduction of e-Government services and applications leads to significant changes in the structure and organization of Public Administrations. In this paper we analyze a solution provided by a set of technological processes that can change the interaction between citizens and government

Although performance evaluation has received a lot of attention in the research literature in the last two decades, it still hasn’t reached an universal acceptance as an effective public management instrument. Many public institutions avoid designing and implementing performance evaluation...