Political Sciences

A model by Passarelli and Tabellini introduces the psychological variable and studies its effects

There is a relation between the competitiveness of districts and the quality of candidates, explains a paper by Nannicini and Galasso

To understand it better requires studying the relationship between the distribution of votes and the overall distributuion of power, as Massimo Morelli, Salvatore Nunnari and Helios Herrera explain in a paper

Percoco and Graziano analyze reactions to the choice of stories to be reported. More reporting on crime leads to an increased probability of rightwing voting

A paper by Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini explains how political candidates are selected

Twentyfive years of research on government transparency have taught that it works only under certain conditions. Maria Cucciniello, with an experiment, finds that it's effective in improving policy understanding, but it doesn't affect citizens' compliance when policies pertain to sacred values