Transparency and Performance in the Italian Large Municipalities

Galli, Emma; Rizzo, Ilde; Scaglioni, Carla

doi:10.3280/ep2018-002001

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“…Data are taken from: https://www.opencivitas.it/. For further details regarding the relationship between transparency and municipalities' performance see Galli et al (2017). allowed to run a second term and 0 otherwise.…”

Section: Ols Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As regards measuring transparency in Italy, 3 Galli et al (2017) have built a composite indicator (CTI) based on the transparency obligations requested to the public administration since the 2013 legislation. 4 Specifically, the CTI 2 For a recent survey on the concept of social capital, see de Blasio et al (2014).…”

Section: Measuring Transparencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…where our measure of transparency in city i is regressed over civic capital and a set of control variables. Transparency is measured with the CTI index built by Galli et al (2017), as described in Section 3.…”

Section: Estimating the Relationship Between Civic Capital And Tranmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The relationship between transparency and civic capital could be driven by several confounding factors. Therefore, our OLS estimates in Section 4.1 take into account a wide set of (socio-economic, fiscal, politico-institutional, and geographical) control variables selected according to the literature on the determinants of transparency (Galli et al, 2017(Galli et al, , 2019. Table 1 illustrates the summary of the statistics of the variables employed in our study, while a description of the variables used, and the relative sources, is available in the SI (Table A2).…”

Section: Estimating the Relationship Between Civic Capital And Tranmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To this end, we firstly estimate a model where the Composite Transparency Index (CTI) ‐ a new indicator of institutional transparency constructed on a completely new data set (Galli et al, 2017) ‐ is regressed over a few indicators of civic capital and several other controls. We find that civic capital positively affects transparency.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transparency, civic capital and political accountability: A virtuous relation?

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Our paper investigates the intertwined relation among transparency, civic capital and political accountability in a large sample of Italian municipalities using a new indicator of institutional transparency. Firstly, we test the hypothesis that civic capital affects transparency of public administrations; secondly, we verify whether in municipalities where civic capital is high, citizens' attention toward government accountability is also high, making it politically unfeasible to disregard the demand for transparency. We find that civic capital positively affects transparency and the latter, in turn, is politically rewarding for the local administrators only conditional to the level of civic capital. Our findings are robust to different samples and endogeneity concerns. | INTRODUCTIONFostering transparency is one of the policies undertaken in contemporary democracies to monitor the performance of the public administrations, promote the integrity of public officials and favor accountability (OECD, 2015). Transparency represents a useful tool to address the problems of information asymmetry characterizing the relationship between the principal, i.e., the stakeholders, and the agent, i.e., policy makers, whose interests may indeed be conflicting (Heald, 2006). On the one hand, making available clear and free information on public activities, transparency may lower for citizens the costs of getting informed, reducing free-riding and enhancing their monitoring capability (Aguiar-Conraria et al., 2019). On the other hand, sharing a set of values which goes beyond narrow self-interest, We acknowledge that this paper is a research outcome of the project MIUR PRIN 2017 -2017CRLZ3F "PolitiCanti. The Politicisation of Corruption and

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Attitudes towards lockdown, trust in institutions, and civic engagement: A study on Sicilians during the coronavirus lockdown

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Italy was the first European country to be affected by the Covid‐19. To limit the contagion, an emergency protocol was triggered on March 10, 2020, which imposed a lockdown for 69 days. Many Italians considered the restrictions imposed by the government excessive and unnecessary. We hypothesized that agreement with government restrictions and compliance with imposed rules was positively correlated with trust in institutions, civic engagement, and the sense of community. To this end, during the lockdown period, we administered an online questionnaire to 189 Sicilians. The results showed that trust in institutional organizations and the attitude component of civic engagement facilitate the approval of limitations imposed during the lockdown period and the acceptance of future restrictions. Unexpectedly, the behavioral component of civic engagement leads to the rejection of restrictions and behaviors that could contain a further spread of the virus. Indeed, participants who declared that they were engaged in beneficial actions for their community disapproved of the measures already adopted and were unwilling to adopt future behaviors to limit the spread of the virus.

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