Silvia Bolgherini
Biographic Data
| ID | 636784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Bolgherini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolgherini |
| SIGNATURE | BOLGHERINI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Perugia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6647-4538 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 47 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The 2024 European Parliament elections in Greece
The 2024 European Parliament elections in Greece tested both New Democracy’s (ND) trajectory towards predominant party status and the second-order election (SOE) model’s relevance. Drawing on aggregate results and survey data, this article examines the election’s macro-patterns and micro-foundations. The election aligned with SOE expectations – low turnout, underperformance by major parties, and gains for smaller and radical parties – yet diverge…
Better Against Than in Favor
The environmental issue has become prominent in the public debate and, consequently, is likely to correlate with voting preferences. We explore this by addressing the voting demand-side and the support to parties according to their distance from the voters’ position on the environment. We considered the European Parliament elections in 2019 and employed both individual and party-level data to assess the role of environmental issue voting. We foun…
I Quaderni dell’Osservatorio Elettorale – Italian Journal of Electoral Studies. La più originale e duratura invenzione di Mario Caciagli
Il 17 maggio 2024 ci ha lasciati Mario Caciagli, fondatore e primo Direttore di questa rivista. Vogliamo ricordarlo in queste pagine dando merito a quella che è stata una delle sue imprese scientifiche maggiori e, dal nostro punto di vista, quella fondamentale: la fondazione della rivista nella sua prima veste, quella dei Quaderni dell’Osservatorio elettorale (QOE). Ripercorriamo dunque la nascita di questa impresa scientifica e editoriale e dedi…
Dissent is the word
Evidence on the electoral participation at the municipal level usually points to a detrimental effect of an enlarged size (due to amalgamation) at the following municipal elections. Differently from most previous studies, our results show an overall positive effect of amalgamation on municipal turnout. In a quasi-experimental Difference-in-difference design following Callaway and Sant’Anna (2020) applied to the Italian case, we find that the cros…
Process matters
Most literature finds a detrimental effect of amalgamation on voter turnout in municipal elections. Some other studies reveal instead null or even positive effects. We argue that this inconsistency derives from the fact that previous research has only analysed the amalgamation/turnout relation in single case studies. The contribution of this article is therefore twofold. First, it proposes a unified framework to investigate the amalgamation/turno…
Politicization without institutionalization
This article considers how intergovernmental relationships (Igr) between the State and the Regions in Italy changed during 2021, the second year of the pandemic outbreak. Three events altered significantly the previous cooperative arrangements and opened a new phase: the vaccination campaign, the new government led by Mario Draghi, and the launch of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). These events helped to shift the former cooperat…
National and local effects in the Italian regional elections (2018-2020). Beyond second-order election expectations
This article investigates Italian regional elections held between 2018 and 2020 in order to assess whether, and if so, to what extent, regional elections present nationalized or localized features. We argue that the Italian regional elections do not perfectly reflect the expectations deriving from the Second Order Elections (SOE) theory. However, they are not completely ‘localized’, and they often mirror the national climate, as captured by Reif …
Italian regional elections 2018–2020. Re-alignment beyond populism
Context-driven Local Autonomy. The importance of differentiated assessments in asymmetric countries
L’autonomie locale est une question centrale dans les démocraties, et de nombreuses tentatives ont été faites pour la mesurer. La plupart de ces efforts fournissent des données comparables entre les pays, basées sur des scores au niveau national, négligeant ainsi nécessairement les différences territoriales au sein des pays. Cette étude souligne le caractère multidimensionnel de l’autonomie locale, sa variabilité en fonction du contexte, et l’imp…
Assessing multi-level congruence in voting in comparative perspective
This article widens the theoretical debate on congruence in voting by including the municipal level on top of the consolidated national-regional comparisons. The concept of multi-level congruence (MLC) is introduced and an original dataset is computed in order to investigate two distinct territorial-level comparisons in Italy and Spain: the national-municipal and the regional-municipal. By building on several strands of literature, the article te…
Oblique-change matters
In the last 30 years, Local Governments all over Europe experienced an intense season of institutional change of unprecedented width and intensity. This paper focuses on a neglected type of institutional change, a more indirect one – here labeled oblique-change – that however strongly influences the overall LG institutional change and local autonomy. Taking 2012 as the climax of the austerity period in Europe and Italy as a pilot case for future …
New year, new phase for QOE-Ijes
With the current issue, the first of 2020, Quaderni dell’Osservatorio Elettorale – Italian Journal of Electoral Studies enters a new stage of its long life as a journal devoted to publishing high-quality articles in the field of election studies. This forty-third birthday signals many changes: with its new Italian-English name and acro-nym, QOE-IJEL becomes the official journal of the Ital-ian Society for Electoral Studies (SISE – Società Italian…
A shallow rationalisation? ‘Merger mania‘ and side-effects in the reorganisation of public-service delivery
This article focuses on the mix of reorganisation measures recently adopted by Italian governments in the delivery of public services in four policy sectors that are (co)managed at different levels of government, but all mostly delivered locally. The aim is twofold: to understand whether a single, coherent approach to rationalisation can be identified in the policy provisions; and how – and how much – the onset of austerity affected governments’ …
Pursuing defragmentation at the municipal level
Municipal fragmentation is a real historical issue in Italy but its relevance has been differently perceived over time. With a focus on the municipal unions and amalgamations as the main tools for defragmentation, we will present an overview of the last quarter century (1990–2017) of territorial policy at the local level. The reforms introduced since 2010 marked a step change in this area: in fact, empirical evidence shows that the most recent de…
From the Change of the Pattern to the Change in the Pattern. The Trilateral Game in the Italian Intergovernmental Relations
Studies on federalism, regionalism and devolution often tackle the processes of institutional change in a country's polity merely as transitions from an institutional pattern to another, thus mainly focusing on the role of legal frameworks and Constitutional setting in the transition from an equilibrium to another. Such an approach overlooks the role of incremental dynamics: what happens after a new constitutional equilibrium has been reached? Do…
Critical election and a new party system
Although party system change has been widely explored, it is less so for the regional level. The article provides the first systematic attempt to discuss party system change at the regional level in Italy. Through a comprehensive overview of the five 1995–2015 regional elections, indicators of party system change, based on an original database, are explored. It will be showed that in the 2013–15 election cycle while party system fragmentation, vo…
Crisis-driven reforms and local discretion
The recent and still enduring global economic and financial crisis deeply impacted the institutional framework in Italy and Spain by prompting a series of reforms, which ultimately re-shaped the local government features. Based on a qualitative comparative analysis of recent reforms, the author shows that (directly and indirectly) crisis-driven provisions have significantly impacted the local levels and changed the central/local relations in both…
Gennaio-Giugno 2014
Europe Belgio/ Belgium Lituania /Lithuania Serbia Slavomacedonia / Macedonia Slovacchia /Slovakia Ucraina / Ukraine Ungheria / Hungary Africa Egitto / Egypt Sud Africa / South Africa Americhe / Americas Colombia Costarica El Salvador Panama Asia India Indonesia Assemblee sovranazionali / Supranational Assemblies Parlamento Europeo / European Parliament
Can Austerity Lead to Recentralisation? Italian Local Government during the Economic Crisis
The relationship between the remarkable changes that have occurred at the local level and the overlapping crises affecting Italy in recent years has yet to be fully tackled by political scientists. This article aims to contribute to the debate by arguing that anti-crisis measures have also produced structural effects that may actually weaken Italian local autonomies, suggesting the existence of an ongoing recentralisation. Several major questions…
Le elezioni nel mondo - Luglio-Dicembre 2013
Europa: Austria, Georgia, Germania, Lussemburgo, Norvegia, Repubblica Ceca; Africa: Mali; Americhe: Argentina, Cile, Honduras; Asia: Giappone; Oceania: Australia
Elezioni nel mondo - Gennaio-Giugno 2013
Europa: Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Cipro, Islanda, Malta, Montenegro, Repubblica Ceca; Africa: Kenya; Americhe: Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela; Asia: Filippine, Israele, Mongolia
Elezioni nel mondo - Gennaio-Giugno 2012
Europa: Armenia, Finlandia, Francia, Grecia, Islanda, Russia, Serbia, Slovacchia; Africa: Egitto, Lesotho, Senegal; Americhe: Bahamas, El Salvador, Repubblica Dominicana; Asia: Corea del Sud, Mongolia, Timor Est
Elezioni nel Mondo - Luglio-Dicembre 2012
Europa: Georgia, Lituania, Montenegro, Paesi Bassi, Repubblica Ceca, Romania, Slovenia, Ucraina; Africa: Ghana, Senegal; Americhe: Messico, Stati Uniti, Venezuela; Asia: Corea del Sud, Giappone, Timor Est
Le elezioni nel mondo. Luglio-Dicembre 2011
Elezioni nel mondo tra Luglio e Dicembre 2011
Elezioni nel mondo – Gennaio-Giugno 2011
Europe: Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, FYROM, Ireland, Portugal; Africa: Benin, Cape Verde, Nigeria; Americas: Canada, Peru; Asia: Turkey
Can Austerity Lead to Recentralisation? Italian Local Government during the Economic Crisis
The relationship between the remarkable changes that have occurred at the local level and the overlapping crises affecting Italy in recent years has yet to be fully tackled by political scientists. This article aims to contribute to the debate by arguing that anti-crisis measures have also produced structural effects that may actually weaken Italian local autonomies, suggesting the existence of an ongoing recentralisation. Several major questions…
Assessing multi-level congruence in voting in comparative perspective
This article widens the theoretical debate on congruence in voting by including the municipal level on top of the consolidated national-regional comparisons. The concept of multi-level congruence (MLC) is introduced and an original dataset is computed in order to investigate two distinct territorial-level comparisons in Italy and Spain: the national-municipal and the regional-municipal. By building on several strands of literature, the article te…
Critical election and a new party system
Although party system change has been widely explored, it is less so for the regional level. The article provides the first systematic attempt to discuss party system change at the regional level in Italy. Through a comprehensive overview of the five 1995–2015 regional elections, indicators of party system change, based on an original database, are explored. It will be showed that in the 2013–15 election cycle while party system fragmentation, vo…
Crisis-driven reforms and local discretion
The recent and still enduring global economic and financial crisis deeply impacted the institutional framework in Italy and Spain by prompting a series of reforms, which ultimately re-shaped the local government features. Based on a qualitative comparative analysis of recent reforms, the author shows that (directly and indirectly) crisis-driven provisions have significantly impacted the local levels and changed the central/local relations in both…
Le primarie in Italia
In Italia il recente fenomeno delle primarie ha contribuito a riportare nella discussione politica alcuni grandi temi delle democrazie contemporanee. Il dibattito sorto, soprattutto, in occasione delle primarie nel 2005, se da un lato ha riguardato gli scopi e le potenzialità di questo strumento, dall’altro si è poi allargato ed ha spaziato su molti aspetti della vita democratica: dalla partecipazione politica al direttismo, dal potere delle olig…
Process matters
Most literature finds a detrimental effect of amalgamation on voter turnout in municipal elections. Some other studies reveal instead null or even positive effects. We argue that this inconsistency derives from the fact that previous research has only analysed the amalgamation/turnout relation in single case studies. The contribution of this article is therefore twofold. First, it proposes a unified framework to investigate the amalgamation/turno…
Politicization without institutionalization
This article considers how intergovernmental relationships (Igr) between the State and the Regions in Italy changed during 2021, the second year of the pandemic outbreak. Three events altered significantly the previous cooperative arrangements and opened a new phase: the vaccination campaign, the new government led by Mario Draghi, and the launch of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). These events helped to shift the former cooperat…
Oblique-change matters
In the last 30 years, Local Governments all over Europe experienced an intense season of institutional change of unprecedented width and intensity. This paper focuses on a neglected type of institutional change, a more indirect one – here labeled oblique-change – that however strongly influences the overall LG institutional change and local autonomy. Taking 2012 as the climax of the austerity period in Europe and Italy as a pilot case for future …
A shallow rationalisation? ‘Merger mania‘ and side-effects in the reorganisation of public-service delivery
This article focuses on the mix of reorganisation measures recently adopted by Italian governments in the delivery of public services in four policy sectors that are (co)managed at different levels of government, but all mostly delivered locally. The aim is twofold: to understand whether a single, coherent approach to rationalisation can be identified in the policy provisions; and how – and how much – the onset of austerity affected governments’ …
Italian regional elections 2018–2020. Re-alignment beyond populism
New year, new phase for QOE-Ijes
With the current issue, the first of 2020, Quaderni dell’Osservatorio Elettorale – Italian Journal of Electoral Studies enters a new stage of its long life as a journal devoted to publishing high-quality articles in the field of election studies. This forty-third birthday signals many changes: with its new Italian-English name and acro-nym, QOE-IJEL becomes the official journal of the Ital-ian Society for Electoral Studies (SISE – Società Italian…
From the Change of the Pattern to the Change in the Pattern. The Trilateral Game in the Italian Intergovernmental Relations
Studies on federalism, regionalism and devolution often tackle the processes of institutional change in a country's polity merely as transitions from an institutional pattern to another, thus mainly focusing on the role of legal frameworks and Constitutional setting in the transition from an equilibrium to another. Such an approach overlooks the role of incremental dynamics: what happens after a new constitutional equilibrium has been reached? Do…
Elezioni primarie
This article is available on the website of the old publisher Franco Angeli ( http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/sommario.asp?IDRivista=152 )
The Technology Trap and the Role of Political and Cultural Variables
More than a decade after the first introduction of the e‐government policies, early enthusiasms on its immediate benefits on the quality of democracy have undergone critical review. E‐government implementation worldwide has proved that technology alone does not necessarily provide more access and more participation. Massive technological intervention is not enough for reinventing government online. Hence, other variables should be taken into cons…
Mutations DE Facto et conséquences DE Jure dans les rapports État-régions
L’objet de cet article consiste à prendre en considération un certain nombre d’actions extérieures des régions et de rechercher d’éventuelles modifications dans les rapports de force entre État central et autorités régionales. Quatre canaux d’activation des Régions sont analysés: la coopération décentralisée, les coopérations interrégionales, la présence des Régions au sein des associations interrégionales et auprès de l’UE à travers leurs bureau…
Elezioni, famiglie politiche e sistema partitico nella Grecia democratica (1974-2000)
L'andamento elettorale dal 1974 al 2000: partiti e famiglie politiche. Il sistema elettorale: la disproporzionalità di un sistema proporzionale. Cicli elettorali e alternanza. Alcune determinanti del comportamento elettorale. Il sistema partitico: pluralismo medio-estremo e limitato, bipolarismo e depolarizzazione
Elezioni nel mondo – Gennaio-Giugno 2004
Europe: Austria, FYROM, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain; Africa: South Africa; Americas: Canada, El Salvador, Panama, Dominican Republic; Asia: India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Korea. Supranational Assemblies: European Parliament
Elezioni nel mondo – Luglio-Dicembre 2003
Europe: Croatia, Georgia, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland; Americas: Guatemala, Mexico; Asia: Japan
Mutations DE Facto et conséquences DE Jure dans les rapports État-régions
L’objet de cet article consiste à prendre en considération un certain nombre d’actions extérieures des régions et de rechercher d’éventuelles modifications dans les rapports de force entre État central et autorités régionales. Quatre canaux d’activation des Régions sont analysés: la coopération décentralisée, les coopérations interrégionales, la présence des Régions au sein des associations interrégionales et auprès de l’UE à travers leurs bureau…
Administrative adaptation in Southern regions
In recent decades, regions have dramatically emerged on the Community arena, and sub-national actors began to be considered legitimate partners in the European Union (EU) context. Europeanisation t
Elezioni nel mondo – Luglio-Dicembre 2004
Europe: Czeck Republic, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine; Africa: Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger; Americas: United States, Uruguay; Asia: Japan; Oceania: Australia
Elezioni nel mondo – Gennaio-Giugno 2005
Europe: Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Moldova, Portugal, United Kingdom; Africa: Ethiopia; Americas: Suriname; Asia: Mongolia, Thailand
Le primarie in Italia
In Italia il recente fenomeno delle primarie ha contribuito a riportare nella discussione politica alcuni grandi temi delle democrazie contemporanee. Il dibattito sorto, soprattutto, in occasione delle primarie nel 2005, se da un lato ha riguardato gli scopi e le potenzialità di questo strumento, dall’altro si è poi allargato ed ha spaziato su molti aspetti della vita democratica: dalla partecipazione politica al direttismo, dal potere delle olig…
Elezioni nel mondo – Luglio-Dicembre 2005
Europe: Albania, Germany, Norway, Poland; Africa: Burkina Faso, Burundi, Egypt, Gabon, Liberia; Americas: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Honduras, Venezuela; Asia: Japan, Sri Lanka; Oceania: New Zealand
The Technology Trap and the Role of Political and Cultural Variables
More than a decade after the first introduction of the e‐government policies, early enthusiasms on its immediate benefits on the quality of democracy have undergone critical review. E‐government implementation worldwide has proved that technology alone does not necessarily provide more access and more participation. Massive technological intervention is not enough for reinventing government online. Hence, other variables should be taken into cons…
Elezioni nel mondo – Luglio-Dicembre 2006
Europe: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, FYROM, Latvia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Sweden; Americas: Brasil, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, United States of America, Venezuela
Elezioni nel mondo – Gennaio-Giugno 2006
Europe: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Portugal, Slovakia, Ukraine; Africa: Benin, Cape Verde; Americas: Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Peru; Asia: Israel, Thailand
Os presidentes de Câmara italianos
Durante a década de 1990, em Itália, ocorreram várias reformas radicais: tratou-se da conjugação de transformações políticas, eleitorais, administrativas, institucionais e constitucionais sem precedentes, que vieram alterar a estrutura da política italiana. A eleição directa dos presidentes de Câmara, introduzida em 1993, é considerada a mais bem sucedida destas reformas e desencadeou, sem dúvida, uma verdadeira transição para uma Segunda Repúbli…
Elezioni nel mondo – Gennaio-Giugno 2007
Europe: Armenia, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Serbia Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Lesotho, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal; Asia: Timor Est
Elezioni nel mondo – Luglio-Dicembre 2007
Europe: Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine; Africa: Kenia, Mali, Morocco; Americas: Argentina, Guatemala, Jamaica; Asia: Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey; Oceania: Australia
Elezioni nel mondo – Luglio-Dicembre 2008
Europe: Austria, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia;Africa: Angola, Ghana;Americas: Canada, United States of America;Oceania: New Zealand
Le elezioni nel mondo - Gennaio-Giugno 2008
Europe: Armenia, Cyprus, FYROM, Georgia, Malta, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Spain;Africa: Djibouti;Americas: Barbados, Belize, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago;Asia: Nepal, South Korea, Thailand
Elezioni nel Mondo - Luglio-Dicembre 2009
Europa:Bulgaria, Croazia, Germania, Grecia, Moldavia, Norvegia, Portogallo, RomaniaAfrica:Botswana,Gabon, Mozambico, Namibia, NigerAmeriche:Bolivia, Cile, Honduras, Messico, UruguayAsia:Giappone, Indonesia
Elezioni nel mondo - Gennaio-Giugno 2009
Europa:Albania, Islanda, Lituania, Lussemburgo, Moldavia, Montenegro, Slavomacedonia, SlovacchiaAfrica:Sud AfricaAmeriche:Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, PanamaAsia:India, Indonesia, Israele, MongoliaAssemblee sovranazionali
Elezioni primarie
This article is available on the website of the old publisher Franco Angeli ( http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/sommario.asp?IDRivista=152 )
Elezioni nel mondo – Luglio-Dicembre 2010
Europe: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Latvia, Moldova, Sweden; Africa: Burkina Faso, Egypt; Americas: Brasil, United States of America, Venezuela; Asia: Japan; Oceania: Australia
Le elezioni nel mondo – Gennaio-Giugno 2010
Europe: Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, United Kingdom; Africa: Burundi, Ethiopia; Americas: Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic; Asia: Sri Lanka
Le elezioni nel mondo. Luglio-Dicembre 2011
Elezioni nel mondo tra Luglio e Dicembre 2011
Elezioni nel mondo – Gennaio-Giugno 2011
Europe: Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, FYROM, Ireland, Portugal; Africa: Benin, Cape Verde, Nigeria; Americas: Canada, Peru; Asia: Turkey
Elezioni nel mondo - Gennaio-Giugno 2012
Europa: Armenia, Finlandia, Francia, Grecia, Islanda, Russia, Serbia, Slovacchia; Africa: Egitto, Lesotho, Senegal; Americhe: Bahamas, El Salvador, Repubblica Dominicana; Asia: Corea del Sud, Mongolia, Timor Est
Political science (30 works) · Geography (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Historical and Environmental Studies (15 works) · Humanities (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · History (14 works) · Art (13 works) · History (13 works)