Carolyn Forestiere
Biographic Data
| ID | 4135620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Forestiere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Forestiere |
| SIGNATURE | FORESTIERE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sleeping Giant or Herd of Cats? An Experimental Investigation of Nonreligious Americans’ Responsiveness to Issue- and Group-Based Political Cues
The rise of the “religious nones” has garnered significant interest among journalists and scholars. Whereas very few people reported that they were not affiliated with an established religious tradition just 20 years ago, currently as many as 30 percent of Americans claim no religion when asked their religious preference on public opinion surveys. This seismic shift in the religious composition of the country precipitates important questions abou…
The Formation of the Renzi Government
The formation of cognitive locks in single party dominant regimes
Cognitive locks’ are ideational path dependencies in policy making (Blyth, 2001). This article argues that one source of cognitive locks is the presence of single party dominant regimes. Single party dominant regimes exist where a single party has managed to control the process of executive formation for an unusually long period of time. Because of their long tenure in executive office, dominant parties are often in positions to implement strong …
Political Volatility and Governance in East Central Europe
In this article, Carolyn Forestiere investigates political volatility as a way to explain varying levels of governance across the new democracies of east central Europe. Specifically, legislative and executive volatility are examined. The results suggest that differences in legislative volatility help explain variations in governance, especially during the beginning of a new democracy. Once party systems begin to consolidate, however, differences…
Party Size, Ideology, and Executive‐Level Representation in Advanced Parliamentary Democracies
How do party size and ideology matter for executive‐level representation in parliamentary systems? This paper attempts to answer this question by providing and analyzing comparative data on 105 parties across 16 advanced parliamentary democracies. The electoral performance of each party is assessed, alongside the extent of each party's legislative and executive representation over time, from roughly 1945 to 1995. Two main conclusions are derived …
Kirchheimer Italian Style
In this article, I use the Italian case to demonstrate that Kirchheimer’s catch-all thesis can be applied in various ways. Unlike parties in many European nations, Italian parties did not undergo a catch-all transformation in the post-war period. However, after the parties and party system were dramatically reformed in the 1990s, some catch-all characteristics — with clarifications — in Italy are in evidence. Specifically, an important distinctio…
New Institutionalism and Minority Protection in the National Legislatures of Finland and Denmark
The individual camps within the new institutionalist paradigm generally argue that every political actor operates within a specific framework of opportunities and that the physical environment in which bargaining takes place is very important to understanding political outcomes. This article uses three of the new institutionalisms to answer two important questions concerning minority‐protecting institutions in the national constitutions of Denmar…
Dynamics in Legislative Budgeting in Italy
For much of the First Republic, the Italian parliament was notorious for its fiscal irresponsibility. However, using data over a 20-year period we note that the performance of the parliament during the passage of the national budget changed over time. During most of the 1980s the parliament always spent more than the final amount specified in the government's Budget Bill. But this trend slowed towards the late 1980s, and of particular interest is…
Assessing Patterns of Executive Representation in Parliamentary Systems
This paper examines the concept of executive disproportionality, which serves as a complement to standard notions of legislative disproportionality. Legislative disproportionality measures the collective discrepancy between electoral vote and legislative seat share among the parties in a political system; similarly executive disproportionality measures the collective discrepancy between electoral vote and cabinet seat share (called ED1) and legis…
Kirchheimer Italian Style
In this article, I use the Italian case to demonstrate that Kirchheimer’s catch-all thesis can be applied in various ways. Unlike parties in many European nations, Italian parties did not undergo a catch-all transformation in the post-war period. However, after the parties and party system were dramatically reformed in the 1990s, some catch-all characteristics — with clarifications — in Italy are in evidence. Specifically, an important distinctio…
The formation of cognitive locks in single party dominant regimes
Cognitive locks’ are ideational path dependencies in policy making (Blyth, 2001). This article argues that one source of cognitive locks is the presence of single party dominant regimes. Single party dominant regimes exist where a single party has managed to control the process of executive formation for an unusually long period of time. Because of their long tenure in executive office, dominant parties are often in positions to implement strong …
The Formation of the Renzi Government
Party Size, Ideology, and Executive‐Level Representation in Advanced Parliamentary Democracies
How do party size and ideology matter for executive‐level representation in parliamentary systems? This paper attempts to answer this question by providing and analyzing comparative data on 105 parties across 16 advanced parliamentary democracies. The electoral performance of each party is assessed, alongside the extent of each party's legislative and executive representation over time, from roughly 1945 to 1995. Two main conclusions are derived …
New Institutionalism and Minority Protection in the National Legislatures of Finland and Denmark
The individual camps within the new institutionalist paradigm generally argue that every political actor operates within a specific framework of opportunities and that the physical environment in which bargaining takes place is very important to understanding political outcomes. This article uses three of the new institutionalisms to answer two important questions concerning minority‐protecting institutions in the national constitutions of Denmar…
Dynamics in Legislative Budgeting in Italy
For much of the First Republic, the Italian parliament was notorious for its fiscal irresponsibility. However, using data over a 20-year period we note that the performance of the parliament during the passage of the national budget changed over time. During most of the 1980s the parliament always spent more than the final amount specified in the government's Budget Bill. But this trend slowed towards the late 1980s, and of particular interest is…
Assessing Patterns of Executive Representation in Parliamentary Systems
This paper examines the concept of executive disproportionality, which serves as a complement to standard notions of legislative disproportionality. Legislative disproportionality measures the collective discrepancy between electoral vote and legislative seat share among the parties in a political system; similarly executive disproportionality measures the collective discrepancy between electoral vote and cabinet seat share (called ED1) and legis…
Assessing Patterns of Executive Representation in Parliamentary Systems
This paper examines the concept of executive disproportionality, which serves as a complement to standard notions of legislative disproportionality. Legislative disproportionality measures the collective discrepancy between electoral vote and legislative seat share among the parties in a political system; similarly executive disproportionality measures the collective discrepancy between electoral vote and cabinet seat share (called ED1) and legis…
New Institutionalism and Minority Protection in the National Legislatures of Finland and Denmark
The individual camps within the new institutionalist paradigm generally argue that every political actor operates within a specific framework of opportunities and that the physical environment in which bargaining takes place is very important to understanding political outcomes. This article uses three of the new institutionalisms to answer two important questions concerning minority‐protecting institutions in the national constitutions of Denmar…
Dynamics in Legislative Budgeting in Italy
For much of the First Republic, the Italian parliament was notorious for its fiscal irresponsibility. However, using data over a 20-year period we note that the performance of the parliament during the passage of the national budget changed over time. During most of the 1980s the parliament always spent more than the final amount specified in the government's Budget Bill. But this trend slowed towards the late 1980s, and of particular interest is…
Party Size, Ideology, and Executive‐Level Representation in Advanced Parliamentary Democracies
How do party size and ideology matter for executive‐level representation in parliamentary systems? This paper attempts to answer this question by providing and analyzing comparative data on 105 parties across 16 advanced parliamentary democracies. The electoral performance of each party is assessed, alongside the extent of each party's legislative and executive representation over time, from roughly 1945 to 1995. Two main conclusions are derived …
Kirchheimer Italian Style
In this article, I use the Italian case to demonstrate that Kirchheimer’s catch-all thesis can be applied in various ways. Unlike parties in many European nations, Italian parties did not undergo a catch-all transformation in the post-war period. However, after the parties and party system were dramatically reformed in the 1990s, some catch-all characteristics — with clarifications — in Italy are in evidence. Specifically, an important distinctio…
Political Volatility and Governance in East Central Europe
In this article, Carolyn Forestiere investigates political volatility as a way to explain varying levels of governance across the new democracies of east central Europe. Specifically, legislative and executive volatility are examined. The results suggest that differences in legislative volatility help explain variations in governance, especially during the beginning of a new democracy. Once party systems begin to consolidate, however, differences…
The formation of cognitive locks in single party dominant regimes
Cognitive locks’ are ideational path dependencies in policy making (Blyth, 2001). This article argues that one source of cognitive locks is the presence of single party dominant regimes. Single party dominant regimes exist where a single party has managed to control the process of executive formation for an unusually long period of time. Because of their long tenure in executive office, dominant parties are often in positions to implement strong …
The Formation of the Renzi Government
Sleeping Giant or Herd of Cats? An Experimental Investigation of Nonreligious Americans’ Responsiveness to Issue- and Group-Based Political Cues
The rise of the “religious nones” has garnered significant interest among journalists and scholars. Whereas very few people reported that they were not affiliated with an established religious tradition just 20 years ago, currently as many as 30 percent of Americans claim no religion when asked their religious preference on public opinion surveys. This seismic shift in the religious composition of the country precipitates important questions abou…
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