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Instagram and political campaigning in the 2017 German federal election. A quantitative content analysis of German top politicians’ and parliamentary…

2021

This article compares the communication strategies of party and candidate accounts on Instagram during the 2017 German federal election. Building upon previous research, we conceptualize how the di...

Campaigns, candidate evaluations, and vote choice: Evidence from German federal election campaigns, 1980–2002

2007

Abstract This article examines the effect of German federal election campaigns on citizens' attitudes toward chancellor candidates. Building on previous research, it puts forward three hypotheses tested using survey data gathered during seven German federal election campaigns. The results confirm that campaigns polarize the voters' perception of the chancellor candidates. During campaigns, voters also bring their opinions about candidates into line with their partisan attitudes. Moreover, during three campaigns candidate preferences become increasingly powerful predictors of vote choice. The findings also suggest that election-specific factors condition campaign effects. The paper concludes…

Un "cospiratore" federalista siciliano: Giuseppe Motta

2015

Il siciliano Giuseppe Motta (1902-1984), sebbene circoscritto all’ambito della storia locale, fu figura non priva di interesse se rapportata alla temperie ambientale in cui visse e al suo travaglio ideologico che lo portò, come Altiero Spinelli, dal marxismo al federalismo, tanto da auspicare la costituzione di un partito federalista che fosse artefice dell’unificazione politica europea. Nei suoi lavori, redatti tra il 1934 e il 1983, Motta difese tenacemente l’aggregazione federalista degli Stati europei nella convinzione che tale assetto avrebbe consentito alla Sicilia di collocarsi tra le regioni economicamente più sviluppate.

Riorganizzazione del Sistema di Giustizia Sportiva e funzione nomofilattica delle Corti Federali di ultima istanza

2010

Ivan Fedorovic Sponka, ovvero l'immobilismo di un antieroe

2019

Il saggio analizza la figura del protagonista della povest' di N. Gogol' "Ivan Fedorovic Sponka i ego tetuska", mirando ad evidenziare le peculiarità di un eroe che si caratterizza per l'inerzia che distingue la sua esistenza incolore. L'analisi testuale si divide in due parti: nella prima si evidenziano i procedimenti autoriali che marcano il contrasto fra l'immobilità di questo antieroe e il dinamismo di ciò che lo circonda, al fine di far emergere il vuoto esitenziale di questo antieroe. La seconda parte dell'analisi prende in esame alcuni oggetti simbolo, nello specifico la valigia del protagonista ed alcune tipologie di abitazione; ciò allo scopo di sottolineare sempre l'incapacità del…

Ženskie obrazy N. V. Gogolâ i F. M. Dostoevskogo

1998

España inacabada. Organización territorial del Estado, autonomía política y reconocimiento de la diversidad nacional

2021

S’han complert més de tres dècades de vigència de la Constitució de 1978 i, per tant, ja es disposa de prou perspectiva per analitzar el grau d’eficàcia d’un model d’Estat, per alguns, gairebé federal i, per a uns altres, senzillament molt descentralitzat. D’altra banda, a Espanya segueix plenament obert el debat sobre Espanya. Sigui quina sigui l’opinió, la veritat és que el nostre antic problema consumeix una gran part de les energies col·lectives, condiciona àmpliament l’agenda política, genera notables tensions socials i projecta ombres d’incertesa respecte al futur. En aquest treball, s’hi presenta un balanç de les dues qüestions. Després d’oferir un resum breu del procés de construcci…

International Fiscal-Financial Spillovers:the Effect of Fiscal Shocks on Cross-Border Bank Lending

2019

This paper sheds new light on the degree of international fiscal-financial spillovers by investigating the effect of domestic fiscal policies on cross-border bank lending. By estimating the dynamic response of U.S. cross-border bank lending towards the 45 recipient countries to exogenous domestic fiscal shocks (both measured by spending and revenue) between 1990Q1 and 2012Q4, we find that expansionary domestic fiscal shocks lead to a statistically significant increase in cross-border bank lending. The magnitude of the effect is also economically significant: the effect of 1 percent of GDP increase (decrease) in spending (revenue) is comparable to an exogenous decline in the federal funds ra…

Assessing Long-Term Fiscal Developments: A New Approach

2009

We use a new approach to assess long-term fiscal developments. By analyzing the time-varying behaviour of the two components of government spending and revenue - responsiveness and persistence - we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal behaviour. Drawing on quarterly data we estimate recursively these components within a system of government revenue and spending equations using a Three-Stage Least Square method. In this way we track fiscal developments, i.e. possible fiscal deteriorations and/or improvements for eight European Union countries plus the US. Results suggest that positions have not significantly changed for Finland, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the US,…

Threshold Effects in the US Budget Deficit

2003

We contribute to the debate on whether the large U.S. federal budget deficits are sustainable in the long run. We model the U.S. government deficit per capita as a threshold autoregressive process. We find evidence that the U.S. budget deficit is sustainable in the long run and that economic policymakers will intervene to reduce per capita deficit only when it reaches a certain threshold.