Published in:Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper ; No. 32
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1 Online-Ressource (33 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2509762
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 20, 2014 erstellt
Description:
We empirically investigate the role of civic capital (proxied by voter turnout) in Italy's economic development in the second half of the Twentieth century. Using a unique dataset at the city level, we show that over a fifty-year span voter turnout was steadily correlated with economic development and that this reflected some causality running from the former to the latter. We also find that the impact of civic capital was greater in the period immediately after the Second World War and gradually waned in the following decades