739 research outputs found
Joint Custody in the Italian Courts
No full textWe study the effect of a 2006 reform to Italian family law that made joint custody the default for
separating couples. The reform boosted joint legal custody by about 75 percentage points. Our research
design uses difference-in-differences to estimate reform effects on the likelihood of a contested
settlement, length of trial and transfers between separating parents. The analysis is based on Italian
individual-level administrative data, which cover the entire population. The joint custody default appears to
have increased dispute rates and length of trial markedly, without affecting transfers. There is no evidence
that mothers buy custody rights back through reduced support. Our findings are consistent with the
excessive discretion given to the judges on some aspects of the law implementation, which resulted in a
partial application of the reform
Evaluating the impact of innovation incentives: evidence from an unexpected shortage of funds
No full textTo evaluate the effect of an R&D subsidy, one needs to know what the subsidized firms would have done without the incentive. This article studies an Italian pro- gram of subsidies for the applied development of innovations, exploiting a discontinuity in program financing due to an unexpected shortage of public money. To identify the effect of the program, the study implements a regression discontinuity design and compares firms that applied before and after the shortage occurred. The results indicate that the program was not effective in stimulating innovative investment
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Populisms among technology, e-democracy and the depoliticisation process
No full textIn the last decade, the economic crisis and the mistrust in democratic institutions have contributed to a major crisis of political parties across Europe. These are some of the causes that led to the formation of political movements with purely populist characteristics as replacement of the traditional delegitimized intermediary bodies. The crisis of representation is the crisis of the post 1945 idea of representation as a tool to increase the people’s participation. We have noted a convergence between some populist appeals to direct democracy and the more radical neo-liberal approaches that pretend to reduce people’s participation, even if by appealing to some forms of “surrogate representation”. The theoretical background of this paper is based upon the relationships between “surrogate representation” and the institutionalization of the neo-populist movements, quickly transformed in neo-populist parties. In other words, we can highlight the strange coming together of technological storytelling on direct democracy with technocracy myths and the overlap of technopopulism with direct democracy and “direct e-democracy” (that is profoundly different from deliberative and participatory e-democracy). The aim of the paper is to analyse the connections between the emerging forms of populism (such as techno-populism), the rhetoric on the importance of digital communication for the improvement of democracy, and the depoliticisation processes.En la última década, la crisis económica y la desconfianza en las instituciones democráticas han contribuido a una gran crisis de los partidos políticos en toda Europa. Estas son algunas de las causas que llevaron a la formación de movimientos políticos con características puramente populistas como reemplazo de los organismos intermediarios tradicionalmente deslegitimados. La crisis de la representación es la crisis de la idea de representación posterior a 1945 como una herramienta para aumentar la participación popular. Hemos notado una convergencia entre algunos llamamientos populistas a la democracia directa y los enfoques neoliberales más radicales que pretenden reducir la participación de la gente, incluso si apelamos a algunas formas de “representación sustituta”. Los antecedentes teóricos de este documento se basan en las relaciones entre la “representación sustituta” y la institucionalización de los movimientos neopopulistas, que se transformaron rápidamente en partidos neopopulistas. En otras palabras, podemos destacar la extraña unión de narraciones tecnológicas sobre democracia directa con mitos de tecnocracia y la superposición de tecnopopulismo con democracia directa y “democracia electrónica directa” (que es profundamente diferente de democracia electrónica participativa y deliberativa). El objetivo del documento es analizar las conexiones entre las formas emergentes de populismo (como el tecopopulismo), la retórica sobre la importancia de la comunicación digital para el mejoramiento de la democracia y los procesos de despolitización
Understanding McDonald's Among the "World’s Most Ethical Companies"
No full textThe animal welfare policies and related public communication initiatives
of McDonald’s corporation are examined in the context of the organization being named as one of the world’s most ethical organizations.
The result is a framework for understanding how McDonald’s and similar organizations could warrant
the status of a most ethical company. Specifically, the narrative strength of the company’s articulation
of an animal welfare policy and its ongoing promotion as a legitimizing
strategy illustrate how McDonald’s
might address the social and ethical issues it encounters through its operations and how its stakeholding
publics are likely to respond. By maintaining narrative strength in communication initiatives and attaining legitimacy, an organization can be perceived as operating within ethical and social norms regardless of policies, perceptions, and reputation
that suggest otherwise
Perinatal programming of metabolic homeostasis
No full textJulie A Owens, Kathryn L Gatford, Miles J De Blasio, Dane M Horton, Karen L Kind and Jeffrey S Robinsonhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/2022035
The Legacy of History for Economic Development: The Case of Putnam's Social Capital
No full textPutnam (1993) argues that (i) center-northern Italy has developed faster than southern Italy because the former was better endowed with social capital; and (ii) that the endowments of social capital across Italian territories have been highly persistent over centuries. This paper provides an empirical investigation of PutnamÂ’s case. To evaluate the relevance of social capital, we present a test based on worker productivity, entrepreneurship, and female labor market participation. Using as instruments regional differences in civic involvement in the late ninetieth century and local systems of government in the middle age, we show that social capital does have economic effects.Social Capital, Economic Development
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