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Choosing between the government and the regions: An empirical analysis of the I talian constitutional court decisions
Author(s) -
Pellegrina Lucia Dalla,
Garoupa Nuno
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/1475-6765.12003
Subject(s) - politics , government (linguistics) , odds , hard rime , mechanism (biology) , empirical evidence , central government , political science , empirical research , law , law and economics , positive economics , economics , local government , linguistics , logistic regression , philosophy , medicine , epistemology , art , literature
In this article the extent to which political variables can explain the behaviour of constitutional judges in I taly when dealing with conflicts between the central government and regions is explored. Two competing hypotheses are tested. One hypothesis argues that one should expect some alignment between the political preferences of the judges and the success of the central government primarily due to the appointment mechanism. The other hypothesis suggests that there should be no systematic alignment between the political preferences of the judges and the success of the central government. Unlike previous literature, the empirical results presented in this article seem to confirm that when the R apporteur and the court's majority are allegedly affiliated with the P rime M inister's coalition, the odds of success of the P rime M inister go up.