It is well known that one of the features of Public Choice, political realism, in Italy is embedded in a time-honored tradition going back to Machiavelli, and perpetuated by G. Mosca and Pareto in their political and sociological writings. The scientific spirit, which in their era led to the...

In this paper we use data generated within an electronic learning environment to explore the relationship between procrastination and academic performance. Our findings suggest that while procrastinators do obtain lower marks, they show the same cognitive capabilities and the same level of...

La geografia giudiziaria Italiana, rimasta sostanzialmente invariata dai tempi dell’Unità d’Italia, ha subito una radicale trasformazione con la riforma contenuta nella Legge n. 148 del 2011 e nei relativi decreti attuativi n. 155 e 156 del 2012. Nel dettaglio, il Decreto Legislativo n. 155...

The entrance of the market into scholarly publishing has resulted in the emergence of research incentives that approach, in the production model, the traditional business activities. In particular, the norm of the publish or perish that should ensure the production of knowledge, intersects with...

In this work we use data from two sets of midterm exams and question-by-question evaluations of confidence levels and construct different indicators in order to study predictive ability and overconfidence. Our results show that (1) there is a significant evidence of a good ability of...

We develop a theory of endogenous regimes transitions (with a focus on democratic consolidation), which emphasizes the role of political culture and of its interaction with political institutions. Political culture reflects the extent of individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy...

The advocates of correspondence testing (CT) argue that it provides the most clear and convincing evidence of discrimination. The common view is that the standard CT can identify what is typically defined as discrimination in a legal sense - what we label total discrimination in the current...

This paper places genocide or mass murder in a continuum of actions that a ruling power can take to remove an unwanted group from a society; that is, it views extermination as a means to an end, and it assumes that perpetrators are rational in the sense that they will choose the combination of...

In the recent past, expectations concerning universities have emphasised their active role in enhancing economic and regional development. The universities in geographical areas suffering from structural problems are particularly required to play this role. Moreover, the correlation between the...

L'efficienza giudiziaria è uno dei principali obiettivi di ogni stato democratico. Un sistema giudiziario efficiente è cruciale sia dal punto di vista economico sia dal punto di vista sociale poiché costituisce uno dei pilastri fondamentali delle società moderne. Lo studio qui proposto si...