Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case

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Autor(a) principal: Piattoni, Simona
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Giglioli, Matteo Fabio Nels
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i2.2913
Resumo: The literature on forms of particularism explores the impact of institutional variables on what is denoted, alternatively, as constituency service, pork-barrel politics, or corruption. Attention has mostly been given to electoral systems, but other institutional provisions and political factors, such as party strength, are also relevant. The present contribution investigates the likely effects of electoral reforms on corruption control and seeks confirmation of the hypothesis that single member plurality (even within mixed member) systems are conducive to a type of particularism that might help fight corruption, taking Italy as a case. We test the impact of two electoral reforms and three electoral systems enacted in Italy between 1996 and 2016, whose primary aim was bolstering enfeebled party leaderships and facilitating the formation of durable governments, and we compare the effort at corruption control of the Italian governments born under these different electoral systems with those of other European democracies.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case
title Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case
spellingShingle Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case
Piattoni, Simona
corruption; electoral reforms; Italy; particularism; personalism
title_short Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case
title_full Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case
title_fullStr Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case
title_full_unstemmed Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case
title_sort Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case
author Piattoni, Simona
author_facet Piattoni, Simona
Giglioli, Matteo Fabio Nels
author_role author
author2 Giglioli, Matteo Fabio Nels
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Piattoni, Simona
Giglioli, Matteo Fabio Nels
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv corruption; electoral reforms; Italy; particularism; personalism
topic corruption; electoral reforms; Italy; particularism; personalism
description The literature on forms of particularism explores the impact of institutional variables on what is denoted, alternatively, as constituency service, pork-barrel politics, or corruption. Attention has mostly been given to electoral systems, but other institutional provisions and political factors, such as party strength, are also relevant. The present contribution investigates the likely effects of electoral reforms on corruption control and seeks confirmation of the hypothesis that single member plurality (even within mixed member) systems are conducive to a type of particularism that might help fight corruption, taking Italy as a case. We test the impact of two electoral reforms and three electoral systems enacted in Italy between 1996 and 2016, whose primary aim was bolstering enfeebled party leaderships and facilitating the formation of durable governments, and we compare the effort at corruption control of the Italian governments born under these different electoral systems with those of other European democracies.
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