Pasquale Colloca
Biographic Data
| ID | 4165550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pasquale Colloca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pasquale |
| FAMILY NAME | Colloca |
| SIGNATURE | COLLOCA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0163-266X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rally 'round the flag effects are not for all
Using the Consequences of COVID-19 (COCO) dataset (quota sample of the adult Italian population, surveyed seven times by email), we analysed the trend of trust in political (political parties, parliament and local administrations), super partes (president of the Republic, judiciary and police) and international (the European Union and the United Nations) institutions from June 2019 to October 2022. Three latent growth curve models showed that tru…
Left and right in the age of populism
This article explores whether the current populist zeitgeist has changed the social representation of the political labels ‘left’ and ‘right’ in terms of their relevance, understanding and meaning. We merged two post-electoral quota samples of the Italian adult population. The first (N = 1,377) was collected in 2006 by the ITANES research group, the second in 2019 (N = 1,504) for this study. We analysed the relevance of left and right in politics…
Coping with the Covid‐19 pandemic through institutional trust
Objective: Exogenous shocks trigger rally effects, leading the public opinion toward increased trust in institutions. Rally effects have an important social function because they help society react to shocks rapidly and efficiently as a single unit and cohesively face the threat. However, little is known about the individual functions that these effects fulfil. In this study, we aimed to analyze the individual functions of the rally effect. Metho…
The Lasting Effects of the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems
Objectives We aimed to analyze the enduring effects exerted by COVID‐19 exposure and subjective economic threats on support for anti‐democratic political systems. Method We performed a two‐wave longitudinal study on a quota panel of the Italian adult population ( N = 1,073), surveyed first in April 2020, during the first peak of the pandemic ( T 1 ) and the first lockdown, and second in October 2020, at the onset of the second peak of the pandemi…
A Democratic Emergency After a Health Emergency? Exposure to Covid‐19, Perceived Economic Threat and Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems
An authoritarian personality is not a necessary precondition for individual anti-democracy: when facing severe personal threats, anyone could restore a subjective sense of control over the social world by becoming anti-democratic, independent of their initial predisposition to support anti-democratic political systems
Three Roads to Populism? An Italian Field Study on the 2019 European Election
Objectives We predicted populist orientation and vote for two populist parties, the Five Star Movement (FSM) and the League, in the 2019 European election by focusing on perceived economic threat, perceived cultural threat, dissatisfaction with representative democracy, and on first‐order interactions. Method We surveyed a quota sample of the Italian adult general population ( N = 1,504) and tested a latent moderated structural equations model ai…
The Dynamics of the Electoral Geography of the Five Star Movement
The aim of the article is to trace the evolution of the Movimento 5 Stelle (Five Star Movement [M.5.S.]) over the last four national elections (the 2013 and 2018 general elections and the 2014 and 2019 European elections). In particular, our goal is to understand how the electoral support for the party changed, in the context of the broad transformations of the Italian electoral geography. In order to accomplish this goal, we investigate the expl…
Strangers in Their Own Land’
Individuals and communities all over the world are experiencing rapid societal changes due to economic, social, cultural, and political cross-national interconnections. Social scientists agree on the importance of understanding the psychological, social, and cultural implications of this globalization process (Diaz & Zirkel, 2012; Scholte, 2005). These analyses cannot ignore the reaction of people who feel threatened in their consolidated social …
Assessment of Citizens’ Populist Orientations
Objectives We developed and validated the POPulist ORientation (POPOR) Scale (composed of six five‐category items), operationalizing populist orientation as a unidimensional construct composed of six facets: (1) anti‐economic, financial, and intellectual establishment attitude; (2) anti‐political establishment; (3) conception of the people as a homogeneous and virtuous entity; (4) consideration of the people as legitimated to take part directly i…
Lega and Five-star Movement voters
We explore the motivations behind the electoral success of the Lega and the Five-star Movement at the 2018 Italian general election. In most of the literature on populism, the success of the new European populist parties is interpreted as stemming from the process of globalisation, which has produced the so-called ‘modernisation losers’: ‘cultural losers’ (people who are disorientated by changes in values, by new waves of migration and by the los…
The impact of economic crisis on civic attitudes
Purpose In times of crisis, the deterioration of living standards may also have direct consequences on civic culture of people and become dangerous for the health of democracy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the recent economic crisis directly influences the civic attitudes in some European democracies focusing on two questions: how much does crisis exposure affect civic attitudes? And what is the role played by e…
Uso delle euristiche nella scelta elettorale
Designed by the American social psychologists Richard Lau and David Redlawsk, the Dynamic Process-Tracing Environment is a tool which simulates an election campaign and ensuing voter choice. This article describes its implementation in the ltalian context. The simulation involves sitting participants in front of a computer screen which displays a continuous fiow of boxes containing information on four candidates in a hypo thetical campaign for th…
Job Precariousness and Political Orientations
This paper explores the role played by job precariousness in political orientations, and examines the extent to which job precariousness could represent a new political division in Italian society. We have investigated the explanatory role of job precariousness for political orientations and analysed its interaction with the declining traditional cleavages (territory, class, religion). Based on a national sample of 15,000 workers, our results pro…
Il Significato Politico Dell’astensionismo Intermittente in Italia
Una delle problematiche meno indagate nell’ambito degli studi sulla partecipazione politica, ma allo stesso tempo più carica di conseguenze, è quella dell’intermittenza elettorale. L’aumento quasi ininterrotto del non voto negli ultimi due decenni in Italia ha interessato tutte le consultazioni, sia quelle politiche sia, soprattutto, quelle regionali ed europee dove il fenomeno ha raggiunto dimensioni considerevoli. Più che la crescita quantitati…
Le elezioni europee del 6-7 giugno 2009
A livello di saldi finali, le tendenze più rilevanti alle elezioni europee del 6-7 giugno 2009, sono costituiti sostanzialmente da: 1) il sostanziale equilibrio finale tra le macro-aree politiche di centrosinistra e centrodestra; 2) la diminuzione del consenso per i partiti maggiori e la significativa crescita dei partiti minori; 3) l’elevato livello di astensionismo.Queste tendenze generali, oramai note a tutti, hanno caratterizzato l’esito fina…
The moderation of ambivalence on attitude–intention relations as mediated by attitude importance
Attitudinal ambivalence has been found to moderate attitude–intention relations. However, no prior work has investigated the mechanisms by which this moderation effect occurs. The present research attempted to address this issue. Across two studies, there was evidence that an Ambivalence × Attitude interaction was mediated through judgements about attitude importance. Additionally, the present research ruled out the possibility that attitude cert…
Job Precariousness and Political Orientations
This paper explores the role played by job precariousness in political orientations, and examines the extent to which job precariousness could represent a new political division in Italian society. We have investigated the explanatory role of job precariousness for political orientations and analysed its interaction with the declining traditional cleavages (territory, class, religion). Based on a national sample of 15,000 workers, our results pro…
The Lasting Effects of the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems
Objectives We aimed to analyze the enduring effects exerted by COVID‐19 exposure and subjective economic threats on support for anti‐democratic political systems. Method We performed a two‐wave longitudinal study on a quota panel of the Italian adult population ( N = 1,073), surveyed first in April 2020, during the first peak of the pandemic ( T 1 ) and the first lockdown, and second in October 2020, at the onset of the second peak of the pandemi…
Assessment of Citizens’ Populist Orientations
Objectives We developed and validated the POPulist ORientation (POPOR) Scale (composed of six five‐category items), operationalizing populist orientation as a unidimensional construct composed of six facets: (1) anti‐economic, financial, and intellectual establishment attitude; (2) anti‐political establishment; (3) conception of the people as a homogeneous and virtuous entity; (4) consideration of the people as legitimated to take part directly i…
Lega and Five-star Movement voters
We explore the motivations behind the electoral success of the Lega and the Five-star Movement at the 2018 Italian general election. In most of the literature on populism, the success of the new European populist parties is interpreted as stemming from the process of globalisation, which has produced the so-called ‘modernisation losers’: ‘cultural losers’ (people who are disorientated by changes in values, by new waves of migration and by the los…
Coping with the Covid‐19 pandemic through institutional trust
Objective: Exogenous shocks trigger rally effects, leading the public opinion toward increased trust in institutions. Rally effects have an important social function because they help society react to shocks rapidly and efficiently as a single unit and cohesively face the threat. However, little is known about the individual functions that these effects fulfil. In this study, we aimed to analyze the individual functions of the rally effect. Metho…
Three Roads to Populism? An Italian Field Study on the 2019 European Election
Objectives We predicted populist orientation and vote for two populist parties, the Five Star Movement (FSM) and the League, in the 2019 European election by focusing on perceived economic threat, perceived cultural threat, dissatisfaction with representative democracy, and on first‐order interactions. Method We surveyed a quota sample of the Italian adult general population ( N = 1,504) and tested a latent moderated structural equations model ai…
Rally 'round the flag effects are not for all
Using the Consequences of COVID-19 (COCO) dataset (quota sample of the adult Italian population, surveyed seven times by email), we analysed the trend of trust in political (political parties, parliament and local administrations), super partes (president of the Republic, judiciary and police) and international (the European Union and the United Nations) institutions from June 2019 to October 2022. Three latent growth curve models showed that tru…
A Democratic Emergency After a Health Emergency? Exposure to Covid‐19, Perceived Economic Threat and Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems
An authoritarian personality is not a necessary precondition for individual anti-democracy: when facing severe personal threats, anyone could restore a subjective sense of control over the social world by becoming anti-democratic, independent of their initial predisposition to support anti-democratic political systems
Left and right in the age of populism
This article explores whether the current populist zeitgeist has changed the social representation of the political labels ‘left’ and ‘right’ in terms of their relevance, understanding and meaning. We merged two post-electoral quota samples of the Italian adult population. The first (N = 1,377) was collected in 2006 by the ITANES research group, the second in 2019 (N = 1,504) for this study. We analysed the relevance of left and right in politics…
The Dynamics of the Electoral Geography of the Five Star Movement
The aim of the article is to trace the evolution of the Movimento 5 Stelle (Five Star Movement [M.5.S.]) over the last four national elections (the 2013 and 2018 general elections and the 2014 and 2019 European elections). In particular, our goal is to understand how the electoral support for the party changed, in the context of the broad transformations of the Italian electoral geography. In order to accomplish this goal, we investigate the expl…
Strangers in Their Own Land’
Individuals and communities all over the world are experiencing rapid societal changes due to economic, social, cultural, and political cross-national interconnections. Social scientists agree on the importance of understanding the psychological, social, and cultural implications of this globalization process (Diaz & Zirkel, 2012; Scholte, 2005). These analyses cannot ignore the reaction of people who feel threatened in their consolidated social …
Uso delle euristiche nella scelta elettorale
Designed by the American social psychologists Richard Lau and David Redlawsk, the Dynamic Process-Tracing Environment is a tool which simulates an election campaign and ensuing voter choice. This article describes its implementation in the ltalian context. The simulation involves sitting participants in front of a computer screen which displays a continuous fiow of boxes containing information on four candidates in a hypo thetical campaign for th…
The moderation of ambivalence on attitude–intention relations as mediated by attitude importance
Attitudinal ambivalence has been found to moderate attitude–intention relations. However, no prior work has investigated the mechanisms by which this moderation effect occurs. The present research attempted to address this issue. Across two studies, there was evidence that an Ambivalence × Attitude interaction was mediated through judgements about attitude importance. Additionally, the present research ruled out the possibility that attitude cert…
Le elezioni europee del 6-7 giugno 2009
A livello di saldi finali, le tendenze più rilevanti alle elezioni europee del 6-7 giugno 2009, sono costituiti sostanzialmente da: 1) il sostanziale equilibrio finale tra le macro-aree politiche di centrosinistra e centrodestra; 2) la diminuzione del consenso per i partiti maggiori e la significativa crescita dei partiti minori; 3) l’elevato livello di astensionismo.Queste tendenze generali, oramai note a tutti, hanno caratterizzato l’esito fina…
Il Significato Politico Dell’astensionismo Intermittente in Italia
Una delle problematiche meno indagate nell’ambito degli studi sulla partecipazione politica, ma allo stesso tempo più carica di conseguenze, è quella dell’intermittenza elettorale. L’aumento quasi ininterrotto del non voto negli ultimi due decenni in Italia ha interessato tutte le consultazioni, sia quelle politiche sia, soprattutto, quelle regionali ed europee dove il fenomeno ha raggiunto dimensioni considerevoli. Più che la crescita quantitati…
Uso delle euristiche nella scelta elettorale
Designed by the American social psychologists Richard Lau and David Redlawsk, the Dynamic Process-Tracing Environment is a tool which simulates an election campaign and ensuing voter choice. This article describes its implementation in the ltalian context. The simulation involves sitting participants in front of a computer screen which displays a continuous fiow of boxes containing information on four candidates in a hypo thetical campaign for th…
Job Precariousness and Political Orientations
This paper explores the role played by job precariousness in political orientations, and examines the extent to which job precariousness could represent a new political division in Italian society. We have investigated the explanatory role of job precariousness for political orientations and analysed its interaction with the declining traditional cleavages (territory, class, religion). Based on a national sample of 15,000 workers, our results pro…
Lega and Five-star Movement voters
We explore the motivations behind the electoral success of the Lega and the Five-star Movement at the 2018 Italian general election. In most of the literature on populism, the success of the new European populist parties is interpreted as stemming from the process of globalisation, which has produced the so-called ‘modernisation losers’: ‘cultural losers’ (people who are disorientated by changes in values, by new waves of migration and by the los…
The impact of economic crisis on civic attitudes
Purpose In times of crisis, the deterioration of living standards may also have direct consequences on civic culture of people and become dangerous for the health of democracy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the recent economic crisis directly influences the civic attitudes in some European democracies focusing on two questions: how much does crisis exposure affect civic attitudes? And what is the role played by e…
The Dynamics of the Electoral Geography of the Five Star Movement
The aim of the article is to trace the evolution of the Movimento 5 Stelle (Five Star Movement [M.5.S.]) over the last four national elections (the 2013 and 2018 general elections and the 2014 and 2019 European elections). In particular, our goal is to understand how the electoral support for the party changed, in the context of the broad transformations of the Italian electoral geography. In order to accomplish this goal, we investigate the expl…
Strangers in Their Own Land’
Individuals and communities all over the world are experiencing rapid societal changes due to economic, social, cultural, and political cross-national interconnections. Social scientists agree on the importance of understanding the psychological, social, and cultural implications of this globalization process (Diaz & Zirkel, 2012; Scholte, 2005). These analyses cannot ignore the reaction of people who feel threatened in their consolidated social …
Assessment of Citizens’ Populist Orientations
Objectives We developed and validated the POPulist ORientation (POPOR) Scale (composed of six five‐category items), operationalizing populist orientation as a unidimensional construct composed of six facets: (1) anti‐economic, financial, and intellectual establishment attitude; (2) anti‐political establishment; (3) conception of the people as a homogeneous and virtuous entity; (4) consideration of the people as legitimated to take part directly i…
A Democratic Emergency After a Health Emergency? Exposure to Covid‐19, Perceived Economic Threat and Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems
An authoritarian personality is not a necessary precondition for individual anti-democracy: when facing severe personal threats, anyone could restore a subjective sense of control over the social world by becoming anti-democratic, independent of their initial predisposition to support anti-democratic political systems
Three Roads to Populism? An Italian Field Study on the 2019 European Election
Objectives We predicted populist orientation and vote for two populist parties, the Five Star Movement (FSM) and the League, in the 2019 European election by focusing on perceived economic threat, perceived cultural threat, dissatisfaction with representative democracy, and on first‐order interactions. Method We surveyed a quota sample of the Italian adult general population ( N = 1,504) and tested a latent moderated structural equations model ai…
Left and right in the age of populism
This article explores whether the current populist zeitgeist has changed the social representation of the political labels ‘left’ and ‘right’ in terms of their relevance, understanding and meaning. We merged two post-electoral quota samples of the Italian adult population. The first (N = 1,377) was collected in 2006 by the ITANES research group, the second in 2019 (N = 1,504) for this study. We analysed the relevance of left and right in politics…
Coping with the Covid‐19 pandemic through institutional trust
Objective: Exogenous shocks trigger rally effects, leading the public opinion toward increased trust in institutions. Rally effects have an important social function because they help society react to shocks rapidly and efficiently as a single unit and cohesively face the threat. However, little is known about the individual functions that these effects fulfil. In this study, we aimed to analyze the individual functions of the rally effect. Metho…
The Lasting Effects of the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems
Objectives We aimed to analyze the enduring effects exerted by COVID‐19 exposure and subjective economic threats on support for anti‐democratic political systems. Method We performed a two‐wave longitudinal study on a quota panel of the Italian adult population ( N = 1,073), surveyed first in April 2020, during the first peak of the pandemic ( T 1 ) and the first lockdown, and second in October 2020, at the onset of the second peak of the pandemi…
Rally 'round the flag effects are not for all
Using the Consequences of COVID-19 (COCO) dataset (quota sample of the adult Italian population, surveyed seven times by email), we analysed the trend of trust in political (political parties, parliament and local administrations), super partes (president of the Republic, judiciary and police) and international (the European Union and the United Nations) institutions from June 2019 to October 2022. Three latent growth curve models showed that tru…
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