Antonella Seddone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1272111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonella Seddone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonella |
| FAMILY NAME | Seddone |
| SIGNATURE | SEDDONE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9490-7599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
On/off(line): Patterns of party membership in digital environments. Insights from the Italian case
Digital technologies provide a novel environment for political activities and, more specifically, for interactions between citizens and political actors. The scholarly literature on these topics is flourishing. On the one hand, studies of political communication emphasise the changing nature of election campaigns and the reshaped relationship between leaders and supporters. On the other hand, the literature on political parties examines the organ…
Analyzing ideological disparities in multi-speed membership parties: The case of the Italian Democratic Party
Party organizations are undergoing notable transformations. The existing literature commonly indicates a shift towards participatory models and membership forms that blur the distinction between party members and sympathizers. These transformations have significant implications for internal party unity and coherence. This study examines the ideological cohesion among members, sympathizers, and voters, using the Italian Democratic Party as a case …
Securing Democracy: Online Political Advertising Regulations and Practices in the EU and its Member States
Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies. While facilitating innovative modes of direct engagement between politics and citizens, online political advertising also allows parties and other political actors to enact strategies that …
Party Resources and Facebook Advertising Ahead of the Italian 2022 General Elections
Politicization and domestication of European issues: Italian citizen engagement on social media during the 2024 European election campaign
The second-order election (SOE) paradigm suggests that citizens generally perceive European elections as less important than national ones. However, recent research shows that European Union (EU) politicization has increased the salience of its institutions and policies in national political debates. This growing prominence is often accompanied by contentiousness, marked by critical and negative tones from political actors and the media. Moreover…
Investigating Media Populism Worldwide
Growing evidence suggests that news media significantly contribute to disseminating, endorsing, or merely increasing the visibility of populist rhetoric. While a large amount of literature has focused on the type and volume of news coverage provided to populist actors and parties (populism through the media), there is more scarcity of knowledge regarding the media's orientation towards populism (populism by the media), partly due to a lack of sys…
The (new) Democratic Party: Ideology, values and strategies of sympathizers, members and delegates
The PD has always been a composite and complex party, where different and sometimes opposing political cultures converge. The 2023 primary elections overturned the predictions by handing over the party leadership to Elly Schlein, interpreted by many as the beginning of a renewal process. However, it is precisely the logic of open primaries that brings into play different actors, bearers of values and strategies that are not always congruent. Will…
Perceived victimhood in Italian politics: Political Ideology, Populism, and Economic Grievance
Perceptions of populist radical right mainstreaming as a threat to democracy: Evidence from Italian voters
This paper explores a little-studied side of populist radical right (PRR) mainstreaming: if and to what extent these parties are considered to be legitimate democratic players by voters. Using survey data from Italy, we find that both Brothers of Italy (FdI) and the League are perceived as threats to democracy by specific groups of voters, although the former raises more widespread concern than the latter. Additionally, this perception is not uni…
Between the Ideological and Communicative Approaches: Hard and Soft Populism in France and Italy
In the last decades populism has been studied as an ideology or a communication style. Using the French and Italian cases as an illustration, this article suggests that these two approaches should not be considered as mutually exclusive by proposing a novel analytical framework. Per each country, the six most voted parties in 2014 EP elections were analysed in relation to their degree of populism, from both ideological and communication perspecti…
Negativity in the news and electoral behavior between first- and second-order elections
The effects of news coverage on political attitudes in election campaigns have been widely studied in academic research. In particular, a fertile branch of the literature investigated the impact of news media negativity on turnout. To date, however, findings are mixed, precluding to state a clear relationship. This paper aims to shed a light on this topic by testing whether negative coverage may affect voters' turnout and to what extent. It appro…
The Politics of Loyalty: Understanding Voters’ Attitudes after Primary Elections
What happens after primary elections? Strategies of loyalty or defection in general elections have been addressed by US literature mainly by means of aggregate data. However, we lack similar studies in non-US contexts. This article investigates the strategies followed after primary elections by taking the case of the Italian Partito Democratico as an illustration. We addressed the individual drivers of loyalty or defection strategies by consideri…
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites: Investigating the Impact of Inclusive Candidate and Party Leader Selection Methods
International audience
Going social: The 2020 regional election campaigns on Facebook between the local and the national
This article focuses on the campaigns for the 2020 regional elections in Italy. Building on the literature referring to the second-order election model, we assess whether, and if so to what extent, regional election campaigns have been nationalized. Indicators of nationalization of the campaigns can be found in the relevance of national actors in political communication strategies thanks to their endorsement of local candidates and their presence…
Juntos pero no revueltos. Miembros, simpatizantes, y el Partido Democrático en Italia
En este artículo investigamos el caso del Partido Demócrata en Italia (Partito Democratico - PD). Observamos cómo los miembros y simpatizantes se integran dentro del partido y su papel respectivo en la selección del líder. El PD aplica un procedimiento de dos pasos para seleccionar a los líderes. Primero, los afiliados seleccionan a los candidatos que se postulan para el liderazgo del partido, de modo que solo tres candidatos tienen derecho a pas…
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites
Losers get sick? The effects of electoral defeat on perceptions of pandemic risk
Research in political behavior shows that citizens update their past perceptions and future expectations over several phenomena depending on whether their favorite party wins or loses the elections. This bias is explained by different psychological mechanisms triggered by individuals' attachment and trust in political parties. In this paper we investigate whether such a winner-loser effect conditions people's concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic.…
Beyond the crisis … resilience and adaptation. Italian political parties and their organizational transformations
Why (and when) did we stop studying parties for what they are, that is, as organizations? First of all, for epistemological reasons. Following the assumptions of the many shades of so-called neo-in
La Lega di Salvini: Estrema destra di governo
The (Northern) League represents a very intriguing case study for scholars interested in party organizational change and transformation. The story of this party, indeed, offers several examples of
Primary elections and party grassroots: Participation, innovation and resistance
Drawing upon both the “party democratization” and “decline in party membership” literature, this paper explores how party members perceive the introduction of primary elections as procedures for selecting candidates and/or party leaders. Using Italy as an illustration, the analysis of survey data on party members from three major parties (Partito Democratico, Lega Nord, Movimento 5 Stelle) reveals three main findings. First, members approve and p…
Media political parallelism and political agenda setting in Italy
The issue of whether and how political parallelism could play a role in the agendadynamics between media and politics is relevant. Yet, this issue has been exploredonly rarely and the findings are unclear. Using Italy as an illustration, this studyinvestigates the interactions between parallel media and the political agenda between2006 and 2011. Based on the analysis of a longitudinal dataset, this investigation aimsto assess whether and to what …
Would-be M.E.P.s: Backgrounds, profiles and trajectories
The characteristics of the elected representatives and candidates are an important element for understanding political systems. For this reason, this article, focusing on the Italian case, examines the socio-demographic peculiarities and the political-professional background of the candidates and elected to the 2019 elections for the European Parliament. The article has at least three reasons of interest. First, the work is based on an original a…
The European Union in the media coverage of the 2019 European election campaign in Italy: Towards the Europeanization of the Italian public sphere
This article investigates the patterns of Europeanization of the Italian public sphere during the 2019 European Elections campaign. Europeanization is meant as a multifaceted process. The visibility and salience of the European Union (E.U.) within the public debate is realized by dynamics involving different actors, in terms of interactions, connections and contaminations between different public spheres. The aim of the article is to clarify whet…
The Democratic Party between change and settlement. Chronicle of a particular year
The year 2017 represents a key moment in the political life of the PD. The party celebrated 10 years of existence and did so by electing a new leader via open primaries, following the same symbolic process of its founding moment in 2007. However, the party has radically changed in the last decade and in the last year in particular. Not only has a dynamic of personalization started (and continued) to characterize the functioning of the party’s cen…
Populism and the Gender Gap: Comparing Digital Engagement with Populist and Non-populist Facebook Pages in France, Italy, and Spain
This paper clarifies whether and to what extent populist communication could drive different gender-oriented reactions. We adopted an original research design intending Facebook as a natural environment where investigating the interaction between social media users and populist and non-populist parties. Our case selection considers three countries falling into the pluralist polarized media system: France, Italy, and Spain. A human content analysi…
No regionalism please, we are Leghisti !’ The transformation of the Italian Lega Nord under the leadership of Matteo Salvini
Whilst the Lega Nord has traditionally been defined as a regionalist populist party, since Matteo Salvini became its leader in 2013 it has undergone a process of profound ideological transformation. This article assesses this momentous change and the impact it could have on the future of the Lega, drawing on a content analysis of Salvini’s and the party’s Facebook posts, as well as interviews with regional leaders. It argues that, under Salvini’s…
Challenges of political participation and intra-party democracy: Bittersweet symphony from party membership and primary elections in Italy
Rebel Rebel. Do Primary Elections Affect Legislators’ Behaviour? Insights from Italy
MPs elected in 2013 Italian parliamentary elections have been selected through \nthree main procedures: open primaries, closed primaries and exclusive methods, \nmeaning that they have been appointed directly by the party e ́lites or party leaders. \nThis peculiar layout of the Italian Parliament offers the opportunity to analyse the \nimpact on the parliamentary behaviour of different selection methods within the \nsame political context. Drawin…
The Politics of Loyalty: Understanding Voters’ Attitudes after Primary Elections
What happens after primary elections? Strategies of loyalty or defection in general elections have been addressed by US literature mainly by means of aggregate data. However, we lack similar studies in non-US contexts. This article investigates the strategies followed after primary elections by taking the case of the Italian Partito Democratico as an illustration. We addressed the individual drivers of loyalty or defection strategies by consideri…
Primary elections and party grassroots: Participation, innovation and resistance
Drawing upon both the “party democratization” and “decline in party membership” literature, this paper explores how party members perceive the introduction of primary elections as procedures for selecting candidates and/or party leaders. Using Italy as an illustration, the analysis of survey data on party members from three major parties (Partito Democratico, Lega Nord, Movimento 5 Stelle) reveals three main findings. First, members approve and p…
Between the Ideological and Communicative Approaches: Hard and Soft Populism in France and Italy
In the last decades populism has been studied as an ideology or a communication style. Using the French and Italian cases as an illustration, this article suggests that these two approaches should not be considered as mutually exclusive by proposing a novel analytical framework. Per each country, the six most voted parties in 2014 EP elections were analysed in relation to their degree of populism, from both ideological and communication perspecti…
How do Eurosceptic parties and economic crisis affect news coverage of the European Union? Evidence from the 2014 European elections in Italy
This article aims at understanding to what extent the presence of Eurosceptic actors, along with the effects of the economic crisis, have affected the news coverage on Europe and the European Union during the 2014 EP election campaign in Italy. We rely on an original dataset based on content analysis of the 50 days prior to the 2014 EP elections in four mainstream newspapers (n = 2,499) and four mainstream TV newscasts (n = 519). Our findings sho…
Perceptions of populist radical right mainstreaming as a threat to democracy: Evidence from Italian voters
This paper explores a little-studied side of populist radical right (PRR) mainstreaming: if and to what extent these parties are considered to be legitimate democratic players by voters. Using survey data from Italy, we find that both Brothers of Italy (FdI) and the League are perceived as threats to democracy by specific groups of voters, although the former raises more widespread concern than the latter. Additionally, this perception is not uni…
Measuring mediated deliberation in a comparative perspective: An analysis of Italian, French and Spanish newspapers
Mediated deliberation aims to investigate whether and to what extent media may contribute to the public debate by offering deliberative elements. This article investigates press mediated deliberation by presenting the results of a comparative research on Italy, France and Spain. The corpus of the analysed articles amounts to 2074 units from 15 widely circulated newspapers. Our findings suggest French newspapers are characterised by a higher degre…
Sense or sensibility? Political attitudes and voting behaviour of party members, voters, and supporters of the Italian centre-left
We consider the effect of primary elections on party membership and electoral behaviour. Direct democracy instruments trigger significant changes in the role and behaviour of grassroots members. The case of the Italian centre-left parties, and particularly the Democratic Party, is in this sense relevant, as for over a decade these parties have been reaching out to supporters in order to include them into decision-making processes, such as the sel…
Perceived victimhood in Italian politics: Political Ideology, Populism, and Economic Grievance
Juntos pero no revueltos. Miembros, simpatizantes, y el Partido Democrático en Italia
En este artículo investigamos el caso del Partido Demócrata en Italia (Partito Democratico - PD). Observamos cómo los miembros y simpatizantes se integran dentro del partido y su papel respectivo en la selección del líder. El PD aplica un procedimiento de dos pasos para seleccionar a los líderes. Primero, los afiliados seleccionan a los candidatos que se postulan para el liderazgo del partido, de modo que solo tres candidatos tienen derecho a pas…
The European Union in the media coverage of the 2019 European election campaign in Italy: Towards the Europeanization of the Italian public sphere
This article investigates the patterns of Europeanization of the Italian public sphere during the 2019 European Elections campaign. Europeanization is meant as a multifaceted process. The visibility and salience of the European Union (E.U.) within the public debate is realized by dynamics involving different actors, in terms of interactions, connections and contaminations between different public spheres. The aim of the article is to clarify whet…
The Partito Democratico after the 2013 elections: All change
This article analyzes the changes that occurred within the Partito Democratico (PD, Democratic Party) from the fiasco of the general election in February 2013 until the European elections in May 2014, focusing in particular on the extent to which the presence of a new, distinctive type of leadership has contributed to such transformations. The first section describes the most relevant events affecting the party in the period considered, such as t…
Le primarie comunali di Firenze del 15 febbraio 2009: Partecipazione E Partecipanti
Le interviste su cui si basa questo lavoro sono state rese possibili dalla disponibilità e cortesia di numerose persone. L’Ufficio Elettorale della Regione Toscana ha garantito un insostituibile supporto logistico. Antonio Floridia, dirigente del medesimo Ufficio, e Osvaldo Miraglia, responsabile organizzativo del Partito Democratico di Firenze, ci hanno orientato con la loro conoscenza del territorio comunale. Mimmo Talò ha contribuito in manier…
Investigating Media Populism Worldwide
Growing evidence suggests that news media significantly contribute to disseminating, endorsing, or merely increasing the visibility of populist rhetoric. While a large amount of literature has focused on the type and volume of news coverage provided to populist actors and parties (populism through the media), there is more scarcity of knowledge regarding the media's orientation towards populism (populism by the media), partly due to a lack of sys…
The (new) Democratic Party: Ideology, values and strategies of sympathizers, members and delegates
The PD has always been a composite and complex party, where different and sometimes opposing political cultures converge. The 2023 primary elections overturned the predictions by handing over the party leadership to Elly Schlein, interpreted by many as the beginning of a renewal process. However, it is precisely the logic of open primaries that brings into play different actors, bearers of values and strategies that are not always congruent. Will…
Media political parallelism and political agenda setting in Italy
The issue of whether and how political parallelism could play a role in the agendadynamics between media and politics is relevant. Yet, this issue has been exploredonly rarely and the findings are unclear. Using Italy as an illustration, this studyinvestigates the interactions between parallel media and the political agenda between2006 and 2011. Based on the analysis of a longitudinal dataset, this investigation aimsto assess whether and to what …
The Democratic Party between change and settlement. Chronicle of a particular year
The year 2017 represents a key moment in the political life of the PD. The party celebrated 10 years of existence and did so by electing a new leader via open primaries, following the same symbolic process of its founding moment in 2007. However, the party has radically changed in the last decade and in the last year in particular. Not only has a dynamic of personalization started (and continued) to characterize the functioning of the party’s cen…
Populism and the Gender Gap: Comparing Digital Engagement with Populist and Non-populist Facebook Pages in France, Italy, and Spain
This paper clarifies whether and to what extent populist communication could drive different gender-oriented reactions. We adopted an original research design intending Facebook as a natural environment where investigating the interaction between social media users and populist and non-populist parties. Our case selection considers three countries falling into the pluralist polarized media system: France, Italy, and Spain. A human content analysi…
Visions of Europe: Emerging challenges for the European project in the aftermath of the 2014 European Parliament elections
The European Union (EU) is facing a profound political crisis of leadership, legitimacy, and purpose. This article provides an analysis of these key dimensions of crisis. It does so by examining the way in which they intersect and their impact on the EU’s institutional architecture, on the politicization of the European public sphere, on the wider dynamics of representation that underpin these processes, and on the political systems and polities …
Le primarie comunali di Firenze del 15 febbraio 2009: Partecipazione E Partecipanti
Le interviste su cui si basa questo lavoro sono state rese possibili dalla disponibilità e cortesia di numerose persone. L’Ufficio Elettorale della Regione Toscana ha garantito un insostituibile supporto logistico. Antonio Floridia, dirigente del medesimo Ufficio, e Osvaldo Miraglia, responsabile organizzativo del Partito Democratico di Firenze, ci hanno orientato con la loro conoscenza del territorio comunale. Mimmo Talò ha contribuito in manier…
Bringing voters back in leader selection: The open primaries of the Italian Democratic Party
According to the penalty hypothesis, primaries are considered damaging for parties because of the social and political distinctiveness of the electorate, who usually choose unpalatable candidates for the median voter in general elections. This article deals with two leader selections organised by the Italian Partito Democratico (PD) in 2007 and 2009. Using survey data, voters' characteristics in the two primaries relating to the 2008 parliamentar…
The Partito Democratico after the 2013 elections: All change
This article analyzes the changes that occurred within the Partito Democratico (PD, Democratic Party) from the fiasco of the general election in February 2013 until the European elections in May 2014, focusing in particular on the extent to which the presence of a new, distinctive type of leadership has contributed to such transformations. The first section describes the most relevant events affecting the party in the period considered, such as t…
Sense or sensibility? Political attitudes and voting behaviour of party members, voters, and supporters of the Italian centre-left
We consider the effect of primary elections on party membership and electoral behaviour. Direct democracy instruments trigger significant changes in the role and behaviour of grassroots members. The case of the Italian centre-left parties, and particularly the Democratic Party, is in this sense relevant, as for over a decade these parties have been reaching out to supporters in order to include them into decision-making processes, such as the sel…
Selecting the leader, Italian style
This article examines the promotion of open and direct procedures for selecting party leaders by focusing on the case of Italy. These inclusive procedures are presented as adaptive strategies adopted by political parties to deal with the deep-rooted anti-party sentiments that are spreading among citizens, and to enable them to re-connect with their own supporters, regardless of whether they are formally enrolled in the party or not. Even though t…
Visions of Europe: Emerging challenges for the European project in the aftermath of the 2014 European Parliament elections
The European Union (EU) is facing a profound political crisis of leadership, legitimacy, and purpose. This article provides an analysis of these key dimensions of crisis. It does so by examining the way in which they intersect and their impact on the EU’s institutional architecture, on the politicization of the European public sphere, on the wider dynamics of representation that underpin these processes, and on the political systems and polities …
Challenges of political participation and intra-party democracy: Bittersweet symphony from party membership and primary elections in Italy
How do Eurosceptic parties and economic crisis affect news coverage of the European Union? Evidence from the 2014 European elections in Italy
This article aims at understanding to what extent the presence of Eurosceptic actors, along with the effects of the economic crisis, have affected the news coverage on Europe and the European Union during the 2014 EP election campaign in Italy. We rely on an original dataset based on content analysis of the 50 days prior to the 2014 EP elections in four mainstream newspapers (n = 2,499) and four mainstream TV newscasts (n = 519). Our findings sho…
Measuring mediated deliberation in a comparative perspective: An analysis of Italian, French and Spanish newspapers
Mediated deliberation aims to investigate whether and to what extent media may contribute to the public debate by offering deliberative elements. This article investigates press mediated deliberation by presenting the results of a comparative research on Italy, France and Spain. The corpus of the analysed articles amounts to 2074 units from 15 widely circulated newspapers. Our findings suggest French newspapers are characterised by a higher degre…
Rebel Rebel. Do Primary Elections Affect Legislators’ Behaviour? Insights from Italy
MPs elected in 2013 Italian parliamentary elections have been selected through \nthree main procedures: open primaries, closed primaries and exclusive methods, \nmeaning that they have been appointed directly by the party e ́lites or party leaders. \nThis peculiar layout of the Italian Parliament offers the opportunity to analyse the \nimpact on the parliamentary behaviour of different selection methods within the \nsame political context. Drawin…
Winds of Change
In the lead-up to the 2013 parliamentary election, four Italian parties used primaries to select candidates. Primaries, which were autonomously decided upon by the parties' central offices, have operated according to different rules. These quasi-experimental circumstances allow an assessment of the effects of rules and selectors' predispositions in the promotion of legislator renewal. An examination of three aspects of renewal–gender balance, rej…
The Democratic Party between change and settlement. Chronicle of a particular year
The year 2017 represents a key moment in the political life of the PD. The party celebrated 10 years of existence and did so by electing a new leader via open primaries, following the same symbolic process of its founding moment in 2007. However, the party has radically changed in the last decade and in the last year in particular. Not only has a dynamic of personalization started (and continued) to characterize the functioning of the party’s cen…
Populism and the Gender Gap: Comparing Digital Engagement with Populist and Non-populist Facebook Pages in France, Italy, and Spain
This paper clarifies whether and to what extent populist communication could drive different gender-oriented reactions. We adopted an original research design intending Facebook as a natural environment where investigating the interaction between social media users and populist and non-populist parties. Our case selection considers three countries falling into the pluralist polarized media system: France, Italy, and Spain. A human content analysi…
No regionalism please, we are Leghisti !’ The transformation of the Italian Lega Nord under the leadership of Matteo Salvini
Whilst the Lega Nord has traditionally been defined as a regionalist populist party, since Matteo Salvini became its leader in 2013 it has undergone a process of profound ideological transformation. This article assesses this momentous change and the impact it could have on the future of the Lega, drawing on a content analysis of Salvini’s and the party’s Facebook posts, as well as interviews with regional leaders. It argues that, under Salvini’s…
Would-be M.E.P.s: Backgrounds, profiles and trajectories
The characteristics of the elected representatives and candidates are an important element for understanding political systems. For this reason, this article, focusing on the Italian case, examines the socio-demographic peculiarities and the political-professional background of the candidates and elected to the 2019 elections for the European Parliament. The article has at least three reasons of interest. First, the work is based on an original a…
The European Union in the media coverage of the 2019 European election campaign in Italy: Towards the Europeanization of the Italian public sphere
This article investigates the patterns of Europeanization of the Italian public sphere during the 2019 European Elections campaign. Europeanization is meant as a multifaceted process. The visibility and salience of the European Union (E.U.) within the public debate is realized by dynamics involving different actors, in terms of interactions, connections and contaminations between different public spheres. The aim of the article is to clarify whet…
Beyond the crisis … resilience and adaptation. Italian political parties and their organizational transformations
Why (and when) did we stop studying parties for what they are, that is, as organizations? First of all, for epistemological reasons. Following the assumptions of the many shades of so-called neo-in
La Lega di Salvini: Estrema destra di governo
The (Northern) League represents a very intriguing case study for scholars interested in party organizational change and transformation. The story of this party, indeed, offers several examples of
Primary elections and party grassroots: Participation, innovation and resistance
Drawing upon both the “party democratization” and “decline in party membership” literature, this paper explores how party members perceive the introduction of primary elections as procedures for selecting candidates and/or party leaders. Using Italy as an illustration, the analysis of survey data on party members from three major parties (Partito Democratico, Lega Nord, Movimento 5 Stelle) reveals three main findings. First, members approve and p…
Media political parallelism and political agenda setting in Italy
The issue of whether and how political parallelism could play a role in the agendadynamics between media and politics is relevant. Yet, this issue has been exploredonly rarely and the findings are unclear. Using Italy as an illustration, this studyinvestigates the interactions between parallel media and the political agenda between2006 and 2011. Based on the analysis of a longitudinal dataset, this investigation aimsto assess whether and to what …
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites: Investigating the Impact of Inclusive Candidate and Party Leader Selection Methods
International audience
Going social: The 2020 regional election campaigns on Facebook between the local and the national
This article focuses on the campaigns for the 2020 regional elections in Italy. Building on the literature referring to the second-order election model, we assess whether, and if so to what extent, regional election campaigns have been nationalized. Indicators of nationalization of the campaigns can be found in the relevance of national actors in political communication strategies thanks to their endorsement of local candidates and their presence…
Juntos pero no revueltos. Miembros, simpatizantes, y el Partido Democrático en Italia
En este artículo investigamos el caso del Partido Demócrata en Italia (Partito Democratico - PD). Observamos cómo los miembros y simpatizantes se integran dentro del partido y su papel respectivo en la selección del líder. El PD aplica un procedimiento de dos pasos para seleccionar a los líderes. Primero, los afiliados seleccionan a los candidatos que se postulan para el liderazgo del partido, de modo que solo tres candidatos tienen derecho a pas…
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites
Losers get sick? The effects of electoral defeat on perceptions of pandemic risk
Research in political behavior shows that citizens update their past perceptions and future expectations over several phenomena depending on whether their favorite party wins or loses the elections. This bias is explained by different psychological mechanisms triggered by individuals' attachment and trust in political parties. In this paper we investigate whether such a winner-loser effect conditions people's concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic.…
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