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1 results foundAuthor: Drago, Francesco Title: The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Summary: We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the Italian 2006 collective pardon releasing about one third of the prison population. The pardon created idiosyncratic incentives to recidivate across released individuals and municipalities. We show that municipalities where resident pardoned individuals have a higher incentive to recidivate experienced higher recidivism. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government experienced a worse electoral performance in the April 2008 national elections relative to the opposition coalition. Overall, our findings indicate that voters keep incumbent politicians accountable by conditioning their vote on the observed effects of their policies. Details: Unpublished paper, 2017. 54p. Source: Internet Resource: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6532: Accessed October 3, 2017 at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2875317 Year: 2017 Country: Italy URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2875317 Shelf Number: 147531 Keywords: Politics and CrimeRecidivismVoting Behavior |