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ALLE ORIGINI DELLA SCISSIONE TRA DEMOCRAZIA E CONTROLLO DI BILANCIO IN ITALIA. UNA POSSIBILE SPIEGAZIONE IN CHIAVE ISTITUZIONALE
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L’assistenza Informale Nella Malattia Di Alzheimer: Rassegna Delle Metodologie di Misurazione e Valutazione Economica
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What lies behind the promise of fiscal austerity? Unveiling the determinants of party positioning in the EU
No full textThe salience of orthodox economic policy in party manifestos is an essential piece of information towards an ex-post assessment of the accountability of politicians in fiscal matters. Using data on political manifestos from the Comparative Manifesto Project database and from additional sources for 15 European Union countries in the 1990-2006 period, we estimate linear and non-linear econometric models to understand the determinants of cross-country variation in pro-austerity manifesto statements. In particular, we present estimates of OLS, Fractional Logit, Beta, and Zero-Inflated Beta models. Here is a summary of our main results. First, support to austerity by left-wing and special interest parties has been mild, and left-wing parties shun austerity in the face of high public debts and high primary surpluses, while right-wing parties take an opposite stance. Second, incumbent parties signal more support to austerity than their competitors, but end up relaxing their commitments when they persist in office for long time. Third, party fractionalization reduces the frequency of orthodox economic policy promises. Finally, the austerity commitments in countries that currently suffer from bad fiscal performance were not necessarily weaker than in “virtuous” countries, but departures from the orthodox economic recipe were not rare
Does Euroscepticism or the economy drive parties’ orientation towards the European Union? A comparison between EMU and non-EMU countries
No full textSupposing that parties in EMU countries behave differently from other EU parties in supporting the integration process, this paper explores, simultaneously, the role of economic variables as well as voters’ attitudes and party characteristics in the EU positioning of European national political parties. Empirical analysis relies on CHES data for 84 parties in 14 European countries in the period 1999-2010. Fractional logistic regression results show that public Euroscepticism drives parties positioning only in the EU countries. Ideological extremism is, instead, negatively related to European integration only in the Eurozone. EU positioning is responsive to larger parties in all the countries. Among economic determinants, party support for the EU is conditioned only by price stability in Eurozone countries, while all the economic determinants affect non-Eurozone parties
Does Euroscepticism or the economy drive parties’ orientation towards the European Union? A comparison between EMU and non-EMU countries
No full textSupposing that parties in EMU countries behave differently from other EU parties in supporting the integration process, this paper explores, simultaneously, the role of economic variables as well as voters’ attitudes and party characteristics in the EU positioning of European national political parties. Empirical analysis relies on CHES data for 84 parties in 14 European countries in the period 1999-2010. Fractional logistic regression results show that public Euroscepticism drives parties positioning only in the EU countries. Ideological extremism is, instead, negatively related to European integration only in the Eurozone. EU positioning is responsive to larger parties in all the countries. Among economic determinants, party support for the EU is conditioned only by price stability in Eurozone countries, while all the economic determinants affect non-Eurozone parties
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