Ascertaining whether local election results are driven by incumbents� performance while in office or mechanically reflect constituencies� ideological affiliation and macroeconomic conditions is crucial for evaluating the alleged accountability-enhancing property of decentralization. Based on a unique score of urban environmental performance and the results of all elections held in the major Italian cities over a decade, we investigate the role of local (fiscal and environmental) versus national issues in municipal elections. While the empirical evidence points to a strong ideological attachment and a somewhat weaker fiscal conservatism, it reveals that media reported environmental ranking has a considerable impact on the popularity of city ...
Examining the record of Green parties that have been involved in government at national level, two d...
The importance of the 2016 municipal elections in Italy was a consequence not only of the number and...
Why do parties offer environmental policies in their political programs? While a number of papers ex...
Ascertaining whether local election results are driven by incumbents’performance while in office or ...
This paper examines the effect of green parties on environmental policy in Norway. Environmental pol...
For many governments, enacting green policies is a priority, but such policies often impose on citiz...
Recently several countries have experienced a drop in popularity of national political parties, acco...
The consequences of climate change urges researchers to investigate the issues of environmental sust...
Do differently oriented political parties implement radically divergent policies which impact the ci...
The consequences of climate change urges researchers to investigate the issues of environmental sust...
Using micro-level data on local Italian elections and exploiting a discontinuity at a population cut...
We examined if local governments exercised de facto the role that the United Nations and European Un...
There is a growing interest in voluntary programmes for climate change mitigation, including greenho...
Examining the record of Green parties that have been involved in government at national level, two d...
The importance of the 2016 municipal elections in Italy was a consequence not only of the number and...
Why do parties offer environmental policies in their political programs? While a number of papers ex...
Ascertaining whether local election results are driven by incumbents’performance while in office or ...
This paper examines the effect of green parties on environmental policy in Norway. Environmental pol...
For many governments, enacting green policies is a priority, but such policies often impose on citiz...
Recently several countries have experienced a drop in popularity of national political parties, acco...
The consequences of climate change urges researchers to investigate the issues of environmental sust...
Do differently oriented political parties implement radically divergent policies which impact the ci...
The consequences of climate change urges researchers to investigate the issues of environmental sust...
Using micro-level data on local Italian elections and exploiting a discontinuity at a population cut...
We examined if local governments exercised de facto the role that the United Nations and European Un...
There is a growing interest in voluntary programmes for climate change mitigation, including greenho...
Examining the record of Green parties that have been involved in government at national level, two d...
The importance of the 2016 municipal elections in Italy was a consequence not only of the number and...
Why do parties offer environmental policies in their political programs? While a number of papers ex...