Marta Regalia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4165626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Regalia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Regalia |
| SIGNATURE | REGALIA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5405-0906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Opening, Polling, Counting
International election observation has been scrutinized over the past two decades by scholars trying to explain its aim, scope, and consequences. As it is now a standard practice in democratizing countries, scholarly literature has almost reached a consensus on the ability of observers to deter election-day fraud, one of the most positive unintended consequences of election observation. Using data from the 2004 Ukraine presidential election, this…
How do Gender Quotas get Subverted? Insights from the Italian 2018 General Elections
In 2018, the Italian Parliament was elected with a new electoral law introducing gender quotas. However, results in terms of gender representation were not as positive as one could expect. What went wrong? Why are women still under-represented? The literature has sometimes reached diverging conclusions on the effects of quotas on gender representation. The present article traces the process from candidate selection to taking office, showing how i…
Conceptualizing and measuring free and fair elections
The quality of elections is a rapidly growing field of study. There are numerous research methods and analysis techniques to examine it. However, literature still needs to shed full light on one of the main concepts associated with this area of research. Often, scholars refer to the concept of “free and fair elections” without providing a precise definition and identifying the dimensions connected to it. This article aims to help fill this gap by…
The Effect of Election Observation
International election observation has become a standard practice in democratizing countries. Doubts have been cast on the ability of electoral observers to accurately judge the freedom and fairness of an electoral process, and the scholarly literature has still not reached a consensus on the unintended consequences of election observation. This article empirically tests the hypothesis that observers can deter election-day fraud through a natural…
Gender quotas in the 2019 European elections
In the European elections of May 2019, Italy enforced for the first time the provisions of national law n. 65 of 22 April 2014 aimed at balancing gender representation. In particular, the law provides that: (a) party and coalition lists cannot be composed of candidates more than half of whom are of the same gender; (b) the first two candidates in a list must be of different genders; c) if a voter expresses three preferences, they must include can…
Electoral Reform as an Engine of Party System Change in Italy
After more than forty years of proportional representation, in 1991 Italy embarked on a period of electoral law revision. The ongoing debate about how to engineer an electoral system capable of producing the preferred political outcomes stands out against the stasis in constitutional reform, most recently demonstrated in the rejection by popular referendum of Matteo Renzi’s package of reforms. The extent to which the different electoral reforms h…
With or without parliamentary primaries? Some evidence from the Italian laboratory
In the last 10 years, Italy has slowly and quite unexpectedly become the European home of primary elections. On the eve of the 2013 legislative elections, three political parties decided, for the first time, to use primaries as the main method of candidate selection. The aim of this article is to analyse some of the characteristics and consequences of the parliamentary primaries in terms of the socio-demographic composition of Parliament and the …
Vent’anni di elezione diretta del sindaco a Bologna
The article retraces the last 20 years of direct mayoral election in Bologna. It shows how the changes in institutional and electoral settings influenced both the party system and voters' electoral responses. By analysing the electoral history of the city, we also show that personalization raised, electoral competition became more (bi)polarized, electoral turnout gradually decreased, voting results became less and less predictable attenuating Bol…
Rappresentanza Totale. Un nuovo sistema elettorale per l’Italia in crisi
This book, published in December 2013, has the unquestionable merit of being very well-timed even if (and this is not a criticism of the book, but of the Italian political system) treating electora
Electoral Reform as an Engine of Party System Change in Italy
After more than forty years of proportional representation, in 1991 Italy embarked on a period of electoral law revision. The ongoing debate about how to engineer an electoral system capable of producing the preferred political outcomes stands out against the stasis in constitutional reform, most recently demonstrated in the rejection by popular referendum of Matteo Renzi’s package of reforms. The extent to which the different electoral reforms h…
With or without parliamentary primaries? Some evidence from the Italian laboratory
In the last 10 years, Italy has slowly and quite unexpectedly become the European home of primary elections. On the eve of the 2013 legislative elections, three political parties decided, for the first time, to use primaries as the main method of candidate selection. The aim of this article is to analyse some of the characteristics and consequences of the parliamentary primaries in terms of the socio-demographic composition of Parliament and the …
Gender quotas in the 2019 European elections
In the European elections of May 2019, Italy enforced for the first time the provisions of national law n. 65 of 22 April 2014 aimed at balancing gender representation. In particular, the law provides that: (a) party and coalition lists cannot be composed of candidates more than half of whom are of the same gender; (b) the first two candidates in a list must be of different genders; c) if a voter expresses three preferences, they must include can…
How do Gender Quotas get Subverted? Insights from the Italian 2018 General Elections
In 2018, the Italian Parliament was elected with a new electoral law introducing gender quotas. However, results in terms of gender representation were not as positive as one could expect. What went wrong? Why are women still under-represented? The literature has sometimes reached diverging conclusions on the effects of quotas on gender representation. The present article traces the process from candidate selection to taking office, showing how i…
Rappresentanza Totale. Un nuovo sistema elettorale per l’Italia in crisi
This book, published in December 2013, has the unquestionable merit of being very well-timed even if (and this is not a criticism of the book, but of the Italian political system) treating electora
With or without parliamentary primaries? Some evidence from the Italian laboratory
In the last 10 years, Italy has slowly and quite unexpectedly become the European home of primary elections. On the eve of the 2013 legislative elections, three political parties decided, for the first time, to use primaries as the main method of candidate selection. The aim of this article is to analyse some of the characteristics and consequences of the parliamentary primaries in terms of the socio-demographic composition of Parliament and the …
Vent’anni di elezione diretta del sindaco a Bologna
The article retraces the last 20 years of direct mayoral election in Bologna. It shows how the changes in institutional and electoral settings influenced both the party system and voters' electoral responses. By analysing the electoral history of the city, we also show that personalization raised, electoral competition became more (bi)polarized, electoral turnout gradually decreased, voting results became less and less predictable attenuating Bol…
Electoral Reform as an Engine of Party System Change in Italy
After more than forty years of proportional representation, in 1991 Italy embarked on a period of electoral law revision. The ongoing debate about how to engineer an electoral system capable of producing the preferred political outcomes stands out against the stasis in constitutional reform, most recently demonstrated in the rejection by popular referendum of Matteo Renzi’s package of reforms. The extent to which the different electoral reforms h…
Gender quotas in the 2019 European elections
In the European elections of May 2019, Italy enforced for the first time the provisions of national law n. 65 of 22 April 2014 aimed at balancing gender representation. In particular, the law provides that: (a) party and coalition lists cannot be composed of candidates more than half of whom are of the same gender; (b) the first two candidates in a list must be of different genders; c) if a voter expresses three preferences, they must include can…
The Effect of Election Observation
International election observation has become a standard practice in democratizing countries. Doubts have been cast on the ability of electoral observers to accurately judge the freedom and fairness of an electoral process, and the scholarly literature has still not reached a consensus on the unintended consequences of election observation. This article empirically tests the hypothesis that observers can deter election-day fraud through a natural…
Opening, Polling, Counting
International election observation has been scrutinized over the past two decades by scholars trying to explain its aim, scope, and consequences. As it is now a standard practice in democratizing countries, scholarly literature has almost reached a consensus on the ability of observers to deter election-day fraud, one of the most positive unintended consequences of election observation. Using data from the 2004 Ukraine presidential election, this…
How do Gender Quotas get Subverted? Insights from the Italian 2018 General Elections
In 2018, the Italian Parliament was elected with a new electoral law introducing gender quotas. However, results in terms of gender representation were not as positive as one could expect. What went wrong? Why are women still under-represented? The literature has sometimes reached diverging conclusions on the effects of quotas on gender representation. The present article traces the process from candidate selection to taking office, showing how i…
Conceptualizing and measuring free and fair elections
The quality of elections is a rapidly growing field of study. There are numerous research methods and analysis techniques to examine it. However, literature still needs to shed full light on one of the main concepts associated with this area of research. Often, scholars refer to the concept of “free and fair elections” without providing a precise definition and identifying the dimensions connected to it. This article aims to help fill this gap by…
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