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Resistance To Institutions And Cultural Distance: Brigandage In Post-Unification Italy, Giampaolo Lecce, Laura Ogliari, Tommaso Orlando
Resistance To Institutions And Cultural Distance: Brigandage In Post-Unification Italy, Giampaolo Lecce, Laura Ogliari, Tommaso Orlando
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
We study how cultural distance affects the rejection of imposed institutions. To this purpose, we exploit the transplantation of Piedmontese institutions on Southern Italy which occurred during the Italian unification. We assemble a novel and unique dataset containing information on episodes of brigandage, a form of violent uprising against the unitary government, at the municipal level. We use geographic distance from local settlements of Piedmontese descent as a proxy for cultural distance between each municipality and the new rulers. We find robust evidence that cultural distance from the origins of the transplanted institutions is significantly associated with more intense resistance …
Resistance To Institutions And Cultural Distance: Brigandage In Post-Unification Italy, Giampaolo Lecce, Laura Ogliari, Tommaso Orlando
Resistance To Institutions And Cultural Distance: Brigandage In Post-Unification Italy, Giampaolo Lecce, Laura Ogliari, Tommaso Orlando
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
We study how cultural distance affects the rejection of imposed institutions. To do so, we exploit the transplantation of Piedmontese institutions on Southern Italy that occurred during the Italian unification. We assemble a novel and unique dataset containing municipal-level information on episodes of brigandage, a form of violent uprising against the unitary government. We use the geographic distance from local settlements of Piedmontese descent as a proxy for the cultural distance between each municipality and the new rulers. We find robust evidence that cultural distance from the origins of the transplanted institutions is significantly associated with more intense resistance to …