Guido Legnante
Biographic Data
| ID | 641699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guido Legnante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guido |
| FAMILY NAME | Legnante |
| SIGNATURE | LEGNANTE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pavia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6411-052X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 369 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Climate change and attribution in Italian TV news coverage of the Emilia-Romagna flood: A missing story
While extreme weather events may make climate change feel more immediate and personally relevant, this potential depends largely on how such events are framed in the media. This article examines how Italian prime-time television news covered the May 2023 floods in Emilia-Romagna, focusing on the salience of climate change, the framing of causal attribution, the visibility of political and scientific actors, and the presence of obstructionist narr…
Assessing public sphere influence on political attitudes across generations: A mixed-methods study of generational political structuring in Italy
We present a project investigating the impact of social media on ideological structuring of political attitudes in a generational perspective, with Italy (around the 2024 European Parliament elections) as a case study. We introduce an innovative mixed-methods, sequential, quantitative-driven, multi-stage design combining surveys, qualitative interviews, and social media data, which effectively integrates qualitative and quantitative components to…
A hyper-politicized policy: Coalition dynamics and media coverage of the Italian Reddito di Cittadinanza (2018–2023)
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…
Gender quotas in the 2019 European elections: Insights from the Italian case
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…
Political communication in a high-choice media environment: A Challenge for Democracy
During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will …
Political balance in the news: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings
Balance is a notoriously difficult concept to operationalize. It has typically been investigated by examining the issues raised in elections, as well as the volume and favorability of coverage of political actors. However, even after collecting these measures, it is difficult to determine precisely what would constitute ‘balanced’ coverage. Based on a comprehensive overview of previous research in western democracies, we argue that political bala…
Hard and soft news: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings
Over 30 years, a large body of research on what is often called ‘hard’ and ‘soft news’ has accumulated in communication studies. However, there is no consensus about what hard and soft news exactly is, or how it should be defined or measured. Moreover, the concept has not been clearly differentiated from or systematically related to concepts addressing very similar phenomena – tabloidization and ‘infotainment’. Consequently, the results of variou…
Political Information Opportunities in Europe: A Longitudinal and Comparative Study of Thirteen Television Systems
This study examines the supply of political information programming across thirteen European broadcast systems over three decades. The cross-national and cross-temporal design traces the composition and development of political information environments with regard to the amount and placement of news and current affairs programs on the largest public and private television channels. It finds that the televisual information environments of Israel a…
Intermittent abstentionism and multi-level mobilisation in Italy
This article is focused on one of the most relevant novelties in the Italian electoral market of the past decade: the emerging phenomenon of intermittent abstentionism. Rather than an increase in overall abstentionism rates, aggregate and survey data show a clear increase in the number of floating voters who swing between voting and non-voting. After a description of the characteristics of intermittent abstensionists, the article discusses the re…
The Italian Local Elections of 2003: A National Campaign (and Consequences), a Local Vote
This article presents an analysis of the dynamics of the Italian local elections 2003. It begins by shortly discussing the role of by-elections in Italy, the incentives provided by electoral systems and the way parties and coalitions chose their candidates. It then presents the results, with particular focus on the reasons for the unexpected success of the centre-left in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, the results of the main parties in provinc…
Trent'anni, 253 Autori, 14422 Pagine Di Scienza Politica
Introduzione Questa rivista ha compiuto da poco i trent'anni di vita. Creata agli inizi degli anni settanta per iniziativa di Giovanni Sartori, la Risp ha proseguito il suo cammino grazie alle con-direzioni di Leonardo Morlino (1986–1991), Maurizio Cotta (1992–1997), e Maurizio Ferrera (1998–2000). Essi si sono avvalsi della collaborazione di molti volenterosi studiosi, giovani e meno giovani, che hanno contribuito alla vita della rivista. Del pr…
Quanto Ha Contato La Comunicazione Politica
Introduzione Sottolineare l'importanza che assumono i processi, i contenuti e l'audience della comunicazione politica nel corso delle campagne elettorali può sembrare superfluo, ma questo è un punto che va ribadito e dal quale conviene prendere le mosse, perché esso coinvolge con potenziali significative conseguenze molti se non tutti i principali attori politici delle contemporanee democrazie e finisce con l'avere effetti significativi sul verde…
Political communication in a high-choice media environment: A Challenge for Democracy
During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will …
Political Information Opportunities in Europe: A Longitudinal and Comparative Study of Thirteen Television Systems
This study examines the supply of political information programming across thirteen European broadcast systems over three decades. The cross-national and cross-temporal design traces the composition and development of political information environments with regard to the amount and placement of news and current affairs programs on the largest public and private television channels. It finds that the televisual information environments of Israel a…
Gender quotas in the 2019 European elections: Insights from the Italian case
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…
Quanto Ha Contato La Comunicazione Politica
Introduzione Sottolineare l'importanza che assumono i processi, i contenuti e l'audience della comunicazione politica nel corso delle campagne elettorali può sembrare superfluo, ma questo è un punto che va ribadito e dal quale conviene prendere le mosse, perché esso coinvolge con potenziali significative conseguenze molti se non tutti i principali attori politici delle contemporanee democrazie e finisce con l'avere effetti significativi sul verde…
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…
Trent'anni, 253 Autori, 14422 Pagine Di Scienza Politica
Introduzione Questa rivista ha compiuto da poco i trent'anni di vita. Creata agli inizi degli anni settanta per iniziativa di Giovanni Sartori, la Risp ha proseguito il suo cammino grazie alle con-direzioni di Leonardo Morlino (1986–1991), Maurizio Cotta (1992–1997), e Maurizio Ferrera (1998–2000). Essi si sono avvalsi della collaborazione di molti volenterosi studiosi, giovani e meno giovani, che hanno contribuito alla vita della rivista. Del pr…
Quanto Ha Contato La Comunicazione Politica
Introduzione Sottolineare l'importanza che assumono i processi, i contenuti e l'audience della comunicazione politica nel corso delle campagne elettorali può sembrare superfluo, ma questo è un punto che va ribadito e dal quale conviene prendere le mosse, perché esso coinvolge con potenziali significative conseguenze molti se non tutti i principali attori politici delle contemporanee democrazie e finisce con l'avere effetti significativi sul verde…
The Italian Local Elections of 2003: A National Campaign (and Consequences), a Local Vote
This article presents an analysis of the dynamics of the Italian local elections 2003. It begins by shortly discussing the role of by-elections in Italy, the incentives provided by electoral systems and the way parties and coalitions chose their candidates. It then presents the results, with particular focus on the reasons for the unexpected success of the centre-left in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, the results of the main parties in provinc…
Intermittent abstentionism and multi-level mobilisation in Italy
This article is focused on one of the most relevant novelties in the Italian electoral market of the past decade: the emerging phenomenon of intermittent abstentionism. Rather than an increase in overall abstentionism rates, aggregate and survey data show a clear increase in the number of floating voters who swing between voting and non-voting. After a description of the characteristics of intermittent abstensionists, the article discusses the re…
Political balance in the news: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings
Balance is a notoriously difficult concept to operationalize. It has typically been investigated by examining the issues raised in elections, as well as the volume and favorability of coverage of political actors. However, even after collecting these measures, it is difficult to determine precisely what would constitute ‘balanced’ coverage. Based on a comprehensive overview of previous research in western democracies, we argue that political bala…
Hard and soft news: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings
Over 30 years, a large body of research on what is often called ‘hard’ and ‘soft news’ has accumulated in communication studies. However, there is no consensus about what hard and soft news exactly is, or how it should be defined or measured. Moreover, the concept has not been clearly differentiated from or systematically related to concepts addressing very similar phenomena – tabloidization and ‘infotainment’. Consequently, the results of variou…
Political Information Opportunities in Europe: A Longitudinal and Comparative Study of Thirteen Television Systems
This study examines the supply of political information programming across thirteen European broadcast systems over three decades. The cross-national and cross-temporal design traces the composition and development of political information environments with regard to the amount and placement of news and current affairs programs on the largest public and private television channels. It finds that the televisual information environments of Israel a…
Political communication in a high-choice media environment: A Challenge for Democracy
During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will …
Gender quotas in the 2019 European elections: Insights from the Italian case
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…
A hyper-politicized policy: Coalition dynamics and media coverage of the Italian Reddito di Cittadinanza (2018–2023)
Climate change and attribution in Italian TV news coverage of the Emilia-Romagna flood: A missing story
While extreme weather events may make climate change feel more immediate and personally relevant, this potential depends largely on how such events are framed in the media. This article examines how Italian prime-time television news covered the May 2023 floods in Emilia-Romagna, focusing on the salience of climate change, the framing of causal attribution, the visibility of political and scientific actors, and the presence of obstructionist narr…
Assessing public sphere influence on political attitudes across generations: A mixed-methods study of generational political structuring in Italy
We present a project investigating the impact of social media on ideological structuring of political attitudes in a generational perspective, with Italy (around the 2024 European Parliament elections) as a case study. We introduce an innovative mixed-methods, sequential, quantitative-driven, multi-stage design combining surveys, qualitative interviews, and social media data, which effectively integrates qualitative and quantitative components to…
Political science (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works)