Ricerca

Ricerca

Ricerca

On April 21st, at LUISS Guido Carli, the CISE convened a panel of international scholars to attend a one-day brainstorming workshop on the feasibility of a research agenda dedicated to the increasing political instability across Western countries, and its relationship with economic change in recent decades. The program featured, among scholars from top international institutions (see below), the presence of Nobel laureate Michael Spence. (canablue.com) Presenters: David Brady, Stanford University, Hoover Institution Alessandro Chiaramonte, University of Florence Roberto D’Alimonte, LUISS Lorenzo De Sio, LUISS Vincenzo Emanuele, LUISS John Ferejohn, New York University Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute Pedro Magalhães, University of Lisbon Leonardo Morlino, LUISS Aldo Paparo, Stanford University,...

Lorenzo De Sio e Davide Angelucci hanno recentemente pubblicato una ricerca - The Cultural (Even More Than Political) Legacy of Entertainment TV - in cui indagano gli effetti di lungo termine dell'esposizione precoce alla televisione di intrattenimento (in particolare Mediaset) sui valori dei cittadini. Qui una breve intervista di Matteo Boldrini ai due autori. Gli effetti della televisione sulle opinioni, in particolare politiche, e quindi sul voto. Fu un argomento molto discusso negli anni Novanta, all'indomani della discesa in campo di Berlusconi, ma oggi diciamo che non sembra un argomento molto attuale. Da dove...

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D’ALIMONTE, R. D. R., & CHIARAMONTE, A. (Eds.). (2010). Proporzionale se vi pare. Le elezioni politiche del 2008, 1–273.

This paper proposes a general theory of individual-level heterogeneity in economic voting based on the perspective that the strength of the relationship varies with factors that influence the relevance of the economic evaluation to the vote choice. We posit that the electoral relevance of the economic evaluation increases with the strength of partisanship as well as political sophistication. Given the strong correlation between partisanship and sophistication, this theoretical perspective casts doubt on extant evidence that more sophisticated voters are more likely to hold the incumbent party electorally accountable for macroeconomic performance since this result might be an artifact of failing to control for the economic evaluation being more relevant to the vote choice of stronger partisans. Our statistical investigation of this question finds no significant evidence that sophistication conditions the economic voting relationship once the conditioning effect of partisanship is included in the model. This finding suggests that individual-level heterogeneity in the strength of the economic voting relationship is largely due to stronger partisans voting more consistently with their national economic evaluation than to more sophisticated voters being more policy-oriented by holding the incumbent party more electorally accountable for macroeconomic performance.