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considerations, political factors such as the facilitation of mobility flows influenced the imposition of regional restrictions. The underlying premise is that if restrictions are solely driven by public health ... factors. Using probit and logit models on a regional panel dataset, our findings suggest potential indications of political manipulation. Regional classification of pandemic risk; Airport passenger flows
In recent decades, the rapid emergence of new political leaders capturing growing social discontent with populist promises has highlighted elements of the internal fragility of democracy. Schumpeter ... -making: the limited use of “conscious rationality” by voters and the potential unfairness of political leaders. These two elements introduce systematic distortions into the process of collective decision
new contribution by incorporating the insightful perspective of the political fragmentation approach. Using a dataset of Italian regions between 2001 and 2011 constructed from primary sources and a new ... Cattel 0 1 0 JEL Classification D72 1 Department of Political Science, University of Roma Tre , Via Gabriello Chiabrera 199, 00145 Rome , Italy Do government parties positively discriminate in favor of
The increase in income and wealth inequality in Italy is well documented, but less attention has been devoted to its association with social and political outcomes. This article investigates the ... Lega voting are distinct from those of other centre-right forces. While political and cultural factors are important to understand political changes, our findings show that a more unequal and distressed
Today’s European wine policy is centered on a system of appellations, implemented as geographical indications (GIs), that entail significant technological regulations—restricting the varieties that may be grown, while imposing maximum yields per hectare and other rules regarding grape production and winemaking practice. This paper outlines the historical development of European...
This paper provides a simple model of hierarchical education to study the political determination of public education spending and its allocation between different tiers of education. The model ... . Education expenditures; Individual preferences; Income inequality; Redistribution; Intergenerational mobility in education; Political economy - JEL Classification H23 · H26 · H42 · H52 · I28 The paper was
budgetary, political, or social limits call for a combination of two or more policies to overcome the above limits and get a higher overall level of greenness than that resulting from just one of them. ... two or more policies to get a higher overall level of greenness, when the intensity of application of a single policy cannot be further expanded due to budgetary, political, or social limits. For
is scrutinized under the framework of entangled political economy, revealing its origins in a process of bank and political bargains. The account clarifies the process by which the political and ... Runs . In: Boettke P, Herzberg R , Kogelmann B (eds.) The political economy & social philosophy of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom . Rowman and Littlefield , London Patrick M , Wagner R ( 2015 ) From mixed
markets maximize or minimize market outcomes and argues that they enable harmony between individual and common interests. According to the political-cultural approach, markets are political arenas with ... political-cultural approach fulfill critical-rationalist requirements. Therefore, the paper compares them and finds that there are reasons to prefer the political-cultural approach and to interpret the
information about public policies, increasing political accountability. However, rent-seeking politicians can bias information reducing citizens’ welfare. We show that the optimal distance depends on the pool ... distance depends on the pool of politicians, voters' political awareness and the cost of distorting information. As these elements differ across regions, a one-size-fits-all institutional reform may be
budget variables in the European Union over the 1995–2019 period. We focus on conditions regarding threshold effects, institutional characteristics and the government’s political orientation. We assess ... sustainable fiscal stance (Brunet and Pàrraga 2021) . Coherently, we believe that the topic object of this work is likely to be again an important part of the political debate at some point in the next years
the most gender equal countries. We show that gender inequalities in economic participation and opportunity as well as in political empowerment are the main drivers of this interaction effect. We find ... ) , gender inequality may also have a heterogeneous impact on the types of entrepreneurship. Gender inequality could introduce systematic distortions at multiple levels of an economic, social, and political
(emphasis added). This decision involved the unlawful political detention of Aleke Banda and Orton and Vera Chirwa. Mr. Banda had been arrested and held without trial for over twelve years, while the Chirwas ... hope that with political changes, "a new era of respect for the human rights of Malawi's citizens has begun." 203 There are many reasons why a successor government may not want to accept responsibility
profound socio-political change.1 The development process in Latin America attests to this salient fact.2 In spite of efforts to modernize, benefits seemed to elude Latin American leaders. 3 New ... in three parts. Part One explores the political climate which reshaped the relationship between the developed West and the developing Latin States. Part Two commences by addressing the economic
, Russia invaded Ukraine, bringing geopolitical tensions to the front end, and causing further GVC disruptions. This time the renewed political attention moved toward securing inputs, critical raw materials ... networks. Today, GVCs still represent a driver of world trade, just about as they did in 2008, but, particularly in the wealthiest economies, the political landscape and public opinion regarding
to be a political consensus to keep the rules, or at least the 3% and 60% thresholds (for deficit and debt) enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty, but at the same time allow a budget for green investments ... feedback coefficient (Blanchard 2023) . One reason is that there is, for economic and political factors, an upper limit to the primary surplus (i.e., the fiscal effort) that the government can sustain
restrictions and transaction cost, which may change over time quite drastically due to political action, technological and financial innovations and cultural changes. The growing importance of liabilities as ... fall. Both political measures as part of neoliberalism as much as genuine economic forces can be put forward here (see 6 It could be argued that the relative increase of financial assets in the balance
international ambitions and a political system where the leadership confronts few constraints on the exercise of power. Because China has become so integrated in the world economy since the late 1980s, this ... Practices. This entered into force in 1967 but was never signed by the United States. with dissimilar political systems, governance frameworks and core values, the WTO must accommodate variable geometry. Many
democratic legitimacy (Serota 2012). As a counterpart, the distance (regardless of what causes this, whether it be the misinterpretation of laws or political disaffection) between an institutional environment ... and its objectives through political policymaking processes. Important and unsolvable issues are transferred to the national government (Gelders et al. 2007). 3 In the middle of the 1970s the Anglo
