The law of survival of the political class:an analysis of the Italian Parliament (1946-2010)
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Keywords
Political enterprise; political class; survival analysis; Italian Parliament.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2012-02-27 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-POL-2012-02-27 (Positive Political Economics)
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