Social Capital, Culture and Government Performance
This paper makes three contributions in understanding the link between social capital and economic performances. First, it conducts a deeper investigation into how the social capital channel might work by conducting a large-scale on-line experiment involving 1,500 individuals from three of the largest cities in Italy, Rome, Milan, and Turin. Second, it presents a simple theoretical political agency model that shows how this pattern of behaviour can arise in equilibrium. Third, it uses a new dataset on Italian municipalities to investigate the link between local government performance and electoral behaviour.
Date:
11 February 2020, 12:30
Venue:
Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details:
Conference Room
Speaker:
Michela Redoano Coppede (University of Warwick)
Organising department:
Nuffield College
Organisers:
Noah Bacine (University of Oxford),
Professor Raymond Duch (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
noah.bacine@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Noah Bacine
