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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
office due to felony disenfranchisement laws. Thus, habitual offender laws target a formally disenfranchised group—people with felony convictions. That creates an archetypal political process problem. As ... he should raise that concern in the political arena, not the courts, and cast his vote accordingly. The problem for Brooker, and the one that animates this Article, is that he cannot vote. Because of
could prevent hate crimes from occurring in the first place. Those measures potentially include educational initiatives, conflict resolution programs, political reforms, social services, or other ... , political reforms, social services, or other proactive efforts aimed at the root causes of hate crimes. Focusing on the public conversation around anti-Asian hate crimes, this Essay argues that very
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
popular and political will to pass the reforms must extend beyond the passage of the law and must also create mechanisms to scrutinize, guide, and support the judiciary’s implementation of the law. ... . Although these reforms were democratic and popular, judges were not sufficiently incentivized to properly implement the changes. If reforms are to succeed, the popular and political will to pass the reforms
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
, implementation, and financing.Aim:To analyze the “Choose a Healthy Lifestyle” enacted by Law 20,670 under Sabatier's “Advocacy Coalition Framework” (ACF), addressing the political discussion and its execution in ... , it is important to consider that if a complex problem reaches the political agenda, negotiations between different coalitions and actors are possible, enriching policies through consensus or stopping
Criminology by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENTRAPMENT RICHARD H. MCADAMS* INTRODUCTION By the time she was eighteen, Amy ... consider and critique the literature that seeks to justify the defense based on retributive theory, utilitarian theory, and political/institutional concerns. In each case, I do not claim that there is no
, INEQUALITY 247–48 (1993); G.A. Cohen, How to do Political Philosophy, in ON THE CURRENCY OF EGALITARIAN JUSTICE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 228–29 (Michael Otsuka ed., 2011). to be punished.162 ... grateful to participants at the Stanford Law and Philosophy workshop for feedback on an early draft of this paper. And I owe special thanks to Juliana Bidadanure, Jessica Eaglin, James Forman Jr., Aziz Huq
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
is (prima facie) wrongful because it puts wrongful pressure on [the target’s] freedom to do otherwise.”); Mitchell Berman, Blackmail, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW 37, 62 ... personal or social characteristics such as psychological or emotional vulnerability, economic hardship, lack of a social safety net, and experience of natural disasters or political instability.56
Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons Part of the Criminal Law Commons; Criminology Commons; and the Criminology and Criminal - AFTERWORD TO "LUNATICS AND ANARCHISTS: POLITICAL HOMICIDE IN
, 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
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
