Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214342 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2005-28
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel
Abstract: 
The intention of this paper is to analyse how audit courts and local autonomy affect political discussion, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a broad variety of potential factors focusing on Switzerland, due to its variety of audit court competences and its strong decentralised structure. With data from the World Values Survey 1995-1997 (Swiss data 1996) evidence has been found that a higher audit court competence and a lower level of centralization is correlated with a higher level of political discussion. Thus, the results in Switzerland suggest that such institutions help improve citizens' willingness to acquire information costs and discuss political matters.
Subjects: 
Political Discussion
Institutions
Audit Courts
Local Autonomy
Decentralisation
Switzerland
JEL: 
D72
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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