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Would You Trust an Italian Politician? Evidence from Italian Regional Politics

In: Do They Walk Like They Talk?

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  • Emma Galli

    (Università di Roma)

  • Veronica Grembi

    (Istituto di Economia e Finanza, Universitá di Roma “La Sapienza,”)

  • Fabio Padovano

    (Economia e Societá, Universitá Roma Tre)

Abstract

This chapter evaluates the erosion of electoral accountability of the “Governors” of the Italian Regions in three subsequent political moments: (1) the elections, (2) the inaugural speeches of the Governor, (3) their first important policy decision, the long-term regional budget (DPEFR). We use content analysis (Laver et al. 2003) to assess the position of each Governor on a left to right distribution at the moment of the inaugural speeches and of the DPEFR. We then analyze the correlation between the distributions of (1) the electoral results and the inaugural speeches and (2) the inaugural speeches and the DPEFR, under the hypothesis that greater similarity can be interpreted as greater accountability. The analysis detects some erosion of accountability from the elections to the inaugural speeches, and a more serious one from the inaugural speeches to the DPEFR. A series of ANOVA tests suggest that the Region’s relative economic position/dependency on transfers from the central governments partly explains such loss of accountability.

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  • Emma Galli & Veronica Grembi & Fabio Padovano, 2009. "Would You Trust an Italian Politician? Evidence from Italian Regional Politics," Studies in Public Choice, in: Louis M. Imbeau (ed.), Do They Walk Like They Talk?, chapter 0, pages 109-129, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stpchp:978-0-387-89672-4_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89672-4_7
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    1. Pierre-Marc Daigneault & Dominic Duval & Louis M. Imbeau, 2018. "Supervised scaling of semi-structured interview transcripts to characterize the ideology of a social policy reform," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 52(5), pages 2151-2162, September.
    2. Alexander Herzog & Slava Mikhaylov, 2010. "A new Database of Parliamentary Debates in Ireland, 1922--2008," The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series iiisdp338, IIIS, revised Jul 2010.
    3. Alexander Herzog & Slava Mikhaylov, 2010. "Estimating Government Discretion in Fiscal Policy Making," The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series iiisdp339, IIIS, revised Jul 2010.

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