caa a22 4500 44587161X CHVBK 20180317145513.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10824-011-9145-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10824-011-9145-3 The political economy of cultural spending: evidence from Italian cities [Elektronische Daten] [Chiara Dalle Nogare, Matteo Galizzi] We investigate the relationship between Italian municipalities' spending on culture in the 1990s and 2000s and a number of political variables—such as a left/right dummy, an election-year dummy and a term-limit indicator—controlling, among other things, for economic and socio-demographic characteristics of the population, the level of human capital and instruction, proxies of social capital, the extent of private financing of cultural provisions and touristic and artistic relevance. We use a panel-data regression analysis and find that, indeed, some determinants of public expenditures on culture are political. In particular, we identify an electoral cycle in which the incumbent spends less on culture in an election year. This result is robust for variations in the empirical model accounting for both the persistence and spatial interdependence of cultural expenditures by municipalities. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2011 Public cultural expenditure nationallicence Political economy nationallicence Local government nationallicence Dalle Nogare Chiara Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, University of Brescia, Via San Faustino 74b, 25122, Brescia, Italy aut Galizzi Matteo Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, University of Brescia, Via San Faustino 74b, 25122, Brescia, Italy aut Journal of Cultural Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/3(2011-08-01), 203-231 0885-2545 35:3<203 2011 35 10824 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-011-9145-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-011-9145-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dalle Nogare Chiara Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, University of Brescia, Via San Faustino 74b, 25122, Brescia, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Galizzi Matteo Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, University of Brescia, Via San Faustino 74b, 25122, Brescia, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Cultural Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/3(2011-08-01), 203-231 0885-2545 35:3<203 2011 35 10824 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer