Autori:
Sacchi, Agnese,
Lo Prete, AnnaTitolo:
Civic engagement and government spending: Lessons from global warming.Periodico:
Università degli studi di Torino. Dip. Di Economia e Statistica Cognetti de Martiis. Working paper seriesAnno:
2023 - Volume:
9 - Fascicolo:
19 - Pagina iniziale:
1 - Pagina finale:
44This article examines the relationship between civic engagement and government
spending. We define civic engagement along three dimensions of citizens’ participation: in civil society associations; on e-government platforms; by voting at national elections. To exogenously vary the willingness to engage, we assume that reactions to global warming differ across countries due to preferences for collectivism, attitudes toward interacting
behind a screen, and geo-climate features. We consistently estimate that civil and electronic participation increase government spending and welfare programs, compatibly with the hypothesis that more participative societies are associated with redistributive policies.
Instead, electoral participation decreases it, compatibly with a selection mechanism
whereby the fraction of voters, moved by the environmental threat that global warming
represents for the collectivity, distance themselves from political engagement through the traditional electoral channels.
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