Transparency, civic capital and political accountability: A virtuous relation?
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Our paper investigates the intertwined relation among transparency, civic capital and political accountability in a large sample of Italian municipalities using new indicator institutional transparency. Firstly, we test hypothesis that affects transparency public administrations; secondly, verify whether where is high, citizens’ attention toward government also making it politically unfeasible to disregard demand for We find positively latter, turn, rewarding local administrators only conditional level capital. findings are robust different samples endogeneity concerns.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Kyklos
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1467-6435', '0023-5962']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12260