Seminario de Investigación del GIDE

El 28 de octubre a las 13h tendrá lugar en modalidad virtual un Seminario de Investigación del GIDE titulado Do Incompetent Politicians Breed Populist Voters? Evidence from Italian Mayors a cargo del Profesor Ph.D. Federico Boffa (Faculty of Economics and Management at the Free University of Bozen - Bolzano). Autores: Federico Boffa, Vincenzo Mollisi and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto.

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Abstract

Poor performance by the established political class can drive voters towards anti-politics and anti-establishment outsiders. Is the ineffectiveness of incumbent politicians an important driver of the recent rise of populist parties? We provide an empirical test exploiting a sharp discontinuity in the wage of local politicians as a function of population in Italian municipalities. We find that the more skilled local politicians and more efficient local government in municipalities above the threshold cause a significant drop in voter support for the populist Five-Star Movement in regional and national elections.

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