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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
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
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
in academic community in recent years, especially with his critical approach. In his works, the author tries to make the philosophy of sociology and the epistemology of politics on the one hand and to ... on the one hand and to problematize the political causes of the ontological crisis that contemporary civilization is covered by. As a cultural theorist, Han has done research on many topics ranging
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
, 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
, therefore, stated that the strong relationship between Islam, science and philosophy should been reestablishment. Although he was also a Islamist thinker, he had the distinctive ideas from other Islamists ... hareket edilecektir. - Theology of Political Islam, Political Islamism and Historical Islam. In this article, Ersoy was included into the historical tradition because of his mentioned ideas. This study
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
political efforts to tackle both multidimensional wellbeing and poverty. In these times of rising inequalities, these efforts seem particularly valuable for identifying the most vulnerable groups. While Italy ... wellbeing was the result of a participatory process in which experts from universities, the political sphere and civil society were involved in the definition of the indicators. This gave legitimacy to the
Introduction Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) is occasionally at the centre of important public debates covering decades, various topics, and many political contexts. Examples include the third London Airport
historical instruments. Specifically, we employ two instruments, borrowed from Tabellini (2010) . The first historical variable, HIST_INSTIT, is an indicator of the ‘quality of political institutions in the ... hospitals’ service provision. IV estimation is performed through standard 2SLS regression on (1) and (2). The intuition behind this IV strategy builds on the main mechanisms through which past political
, Corso Italia 55, 95123 Catania , Italy 2 Department of Political Sciences, University of Pisa , via F. Serafini 3, 56126 Pisa , Italy 3 Health Econometrics and Data Group, University of York , York , UK ... . Undoubtedly, transparency constitutes crucial support for the decisions of the political body at the top of the administration, as it increases the degree of accountability and enhances the bond of trust
phase, grow more than industry, both in terms of employment and their contributions to GDP. It is a wholly different new phase, where the political use of public spending by the governing parties has the ... the “productivity slowdown” exploiting the margins on the cost side, without fundamentally changing its economic structure, with low investment and innovation rates, while its political system gets
