【Empirical seminar】Historical anti-fascism and right-wing voting in Italy
2022/11/01
研討會日期 : 2022-11-01
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Eik Leong Swee
地點 : Conference room B110
主持人 : Professor Tzu-Ting Yang
演講者簡介 : Professor Eik Leong Swee received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toronto in 2010. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne. His research interests are Development Economics, Political Economics, Economics of Conflict, Applied Microeconomics.
演講摘要 : We study how the experience of anti-fascism during Mussolini's dictatorship affects post-war political preferences for right-wing parties. Using newly-digitized historical data, we construct a measure of anti-fascism from the universe of regime opponents recorded in the Casellario Politico Centrale, and an instrumental variable that leverages the random assignment of judges of the Tribunale speciale per la difesa dello Stato and that resolves the simultaneity between the supply of opposition and the demand for repression of opponents. We find that stronger opposition to fascism before and during WWII weakens the support for the post-fascist party in democratic elections by between 0.3 and 1.2 percentage points. Weaker effects are detected for post-1992 conservative right-wing parties not directly tied to the Partito Nazionale Fascista.
