Dynamics in Legislative Budgeting in Italy: 1982-2001

• Main Authors: Forestiere, Carolyn, Pelizzo, Riccardo
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/129; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1128/viewcontent/forestiere_pelizzo.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

For much of the First Republic, the Italian Parliament was notorious for its fiscal irresponsibility. However, using data over a 20-year period we note that the performance of the Parliament during the passage of the national budget changed over time. During most the 1980s the Parliament always spen...