The Determinants of Political Discussion: How important are audit courts and local autonomy?

Benno Torgler and Christoph Schaltegger

Berkeley Program in Law and Economics, Working Paper Series from Berkeley Program in Law and Economics

Abstract: The intention of this paper is to analyse how audit courts and local autonomy affect political discussion, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a broad variety of potential factors focusing on Switzerland, due to its variety of audit court competences and its strong decentralised structure. With data from the World Values Survey 1995-1997 (Swiss data 1996) evidence has been found that a higher audit court competence and a lower level of centralization is correlated with a higher level of political discussion. Thus, the results in Switzerland suggest that such institutions help improve citizens’ willingness to acquire information costs and discuss political matters.

Keywords: D720; H410 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-12-13
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