Decentralization and Party Organizational Change: The Case of Italy

Hopkin, Jonathan

doi:10.1057/9780230582941_5

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“…The electorally timed release of arrears has also been observed elsewhere, e.g., in Russia (Akhmedov and Zhuravskaya 2004). 7 The influence of the central party organizations on their peripheral structures is a long-standing feature of the relationship between centre and regions (Tarrow 1977), and it has been reinforced by the electoral systems used in national elections from 1994 on, which have centralized the selection of national candidates (Bardi 2007;Giannetti and Laver 2001;Hopkin 2009). 8 For Trentino-Alto Adige, each of its two autonomous provinces have separately been entered into the database.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Health care constitutes by far the largest competence of regions, representing as it does more than 70 per cent of regional expenditure (ISAE 2004). Given its large size, health care provides ample opportunities for clientelistic manipulation of spending (Hopkin 2009;Tronconi and Rioux 2009). We specifically focus on personnel spending as this type of spending is especially prone to redistributive manipulations (Alesina et al 1999;Ames et al 2005;Calvo and Murillo 2004;Robinson and Verdier 2013).…”

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“…The health service, and in particular patronage through hiring by the health system, has long been a preferred reservoir for clientelistic politicians, especially in the southern regions (Azzolina 2013;Azzolina and Pavolini 2012;Costabile 2007;Fantozzi and De Luca 2010;Hopkin 2009;Politi 2015;Tronconi and Rioux 2009), and in fact often regional and local politicians in the South have a professional background in the health sector (Fantozzi and De Luca 2010;Tronconi and Rioux 2009).…”

Section: Politics and The Health Service In Italymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Clientelistic budget cycles: evidence from health policy in the Italian regions

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Hallerberg²

2015

Journal of European Public Policy

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Clientelistic budget cycles: evidence from health policy in the Italian regions

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Hallerberg²

2015

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…Several studies examine, for example, the "paradigmatic" cases of Québec, Scotland and Catalonia based on Keating's earlier work on regional nationalism (Keating 1996). Other well-studied countries are Belgium and Italy (Agnew 2002;Deschouwer 2009b;Hopkin 2009 Relatively free and open elections were held before the death of President Tuąman. Yet I concur with Cohen (1997) that the way President Tuąman led the country was authoritarian because his power was not controlled by independent institutions and checks and balances.…”

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Political Elites and Decentralization Reforms in the Post-Socialist Balkans

Kleibrink¹

2015

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South-East Europe presents a compelling agenda: a region that has challenged European identities, values and interests like no other at formative periods of modern history, and is now undergoing a set of complex transitions. It is a region made up of new and old European Union member states, as well as aspiring ones; early 'democratising' states and new post-communist regimes; states undergoing liberalizing economic reforms, partially inspired by external forces, whilst coping with their own embedded nationalisms; and states obliged to respond to new and recurring issues of security, identity, well-being, social integration, faith and secularization.This series examines issues of inheritance and adaptation. The disciplinary reach incorporates politics and international relations, modern history, economics and political economy and sociology. It links the study of South-East Europe across a number of social sciences to European issues of democratization and economic reform in the post-transition age. It addresses ideas as well as institutions, policies as well as processes. It will include studies of the domestic and foreign policies of single states, relations between states and peoples in the region, and between the region and beyond. The EU is an obvious reference point for current research on South-East Europe, but this series also highlights the importance of South-East Europe in its eastern context: the Caucuses, the Black Sea and the Middle East.

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“…This party can be defined as At the same time, as pointed out by Hopkin (2008), within the internal organization of the state-wide party Forza Italia-PdL, the Lombard branch has de facto acted as an autonomous territorial party, following an independent political line and forming social and political alliances with a broad range of regional interest groups. This has not occurred in the Venetian branch of the party.…”

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confidence: 99%