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The study aims to contribute to the existing experimental literature on FOIA compliance and concordance. The study proposes an experiment targeted at Italian municipalities. Such an experiment aims to check whether in case of a simple request of information by one citizen: 1) municipalities’ response rate is higher, and the responses are faster if the request includes a specific reference to FOIA law; 2) municipalities’ response rate is higher, and the responses are faster if the request includes a specific reference to the title of the requester (e.g., Avv - lawyer).

Finding a non-academic job in line with both doctoral graduates’ degree and acquired know-how can be difficult because of insufficient demand for R&D skills in public administration and private enterprise and/or because of the lack of matching between the existing demand and the Ph.D. holders’ specialization. The aim of this paper is to test whether migrating from some regions may improve job-education matching in Italy. The econometric strategy takes into account Ph.D. holders’ selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration seems to facilitate the possibility of finding better job opportunities. More specifically, only migration within the regions of the centre and north of Italy seems to improve jobeducation matching.

Supposing that parties in EMU countries behave differently from other EU parties in supporting the integration process, this paper explores, simultaneously, the role of economic variables as well as voters’ attitudes and party characteristics in the EU positioning of European national political parties. Empirical analysis relies on CHES data for 84 parties in 14 European countries in the period 1999-2010. Fractional logistic regression results show that public Euroscepticism drives parties positioning only in the EU countries. Ideological extremism is, instead, negatively related to European integration only in the Eurozone. EU positioning is responsive to larger parties in all the countries. Among economic determinants, party support for the EU is conditioned only by price stability in Eurozone countries, while all the economic determinants affect non-Eurozone parties.

In this paper we study the Musgravian notion of community value, related to the extent and the worthiness of the cultural heritage located in the historical centers of Italian chief towns. Our aim is to detect the existence of this value through quantitative data, considered the well-known difficulties in finding mechanisms of collective decisions in frameworks that are not paternalist, but democratic. More in detail, we believe that a relevant and not-generic community value, representing the identity symbolized by the cultural heritage, is supposable only if the differential between the market prices of the historical centers' real estates and those of other urban areas is positive. The conclusions, drawn from the apparent relation between the community value and the socio-economic conditions of cities, are about the characteristics of good government policies.

Il presente lavoro si pone l’obiettivo di indagare la consistenza delle elargizioni volontarie alla cultura in Italia, mediante un’analisi descrittiva dei principali incentivi tributari per i contribuenti Irpef in Italia nel periodo 2001-2012. Successivamente, si tenterà di spiegare l’inconsistenza quantitativa delle donazioni da persone fisiche sulla base di una letteratura multidisciplinare sul significato di dono e processo di scambio. Le riflessioni finali metteranno in evidenza come il sostegno da parte dei privati sia strettamente legato al ruolo dello Stato in quel settore, dal momento che la donazione sembra aver il ruolo di supplire ad un’offerta di beni e servizi pubblici che appare inadeguata. In tal senso, la preferenza che i donatori mostrano nei confronti di altri settori di intervento quali salute e povertà rivela la necessità di promuovere la cultura come bene comune e relazionale al fine di stimolare l’elemento di reciprocità che è alla base della donazione., La finanza della cultura – La spesa, il finanziamento e la tassazione