Laws and Legislature Size in Italian Regions: Which Will Be the Effect of an Increase in the Number of Legislators?

Nadia Fiorino and Roberto Ricciuti
Additional contact information
Nadia Fiorino: Università of L'Aquila

Chapter Chapter 5 in Italian Institutional Reforms: A Public Choice Perspective, 2008, pp 77-88 from Springer

Abstract: We analyze the effect of differences in legislature size on the number of laws enacted in Italian regions and the relationship between regional public expenditure and laws. According to the theory, legislature size has an indefinite effect on these variables because logrolling and transaction costs may have canceling effects. We find a significantly negative effect of the number of legislators on laws. We also uncover a strong political-cycle effect, which increases legislation in voting years. We use these findings to forecast the effects of the increase in the number of legislators that is taking place in most regions. Key words: Legislature size, law, logrolling.

Date: 2008
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-72141-5_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9780387721415

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72141-5_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().