Marco Valbruzzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 89820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Valbruzzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Valbruzzi |
| SIGNATURE | VALBRUZZI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Naples Federico II |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8019-1024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The personal efficacy of party youth wing members
Although young people are said to be increasingly withdrawing from participation in political parties, some still join because they believe they can influence them to achieve change. We examine this sense of personal efficacy among contemporary youth wing members and ask: how is youth wing members’ personal efficacy associated with their activity levels and membership length, and with intra-party democracy and youth wing integration into the part…
More social, less material, more influenced by family ties
Do young women and men join political parties for different reasons? To investigate, we theorize the following: first, women will be more attracted by social incentives and men by material ones, while purposive incentives will be equally appealing to both; second, before signing up, women will have more party-affiliated family ties than men; and third, these ties will moderate the gender gap in incentives. Drawing on YOUMEM survey data from over …
The added value of youth wings
Political parties expect youth wings to recruit and socialize young people into the norms and values of the party, nurturing aligned future grassroots members, officials, and candidates. However, embeddedness in youth wings – understood in terms of membership length and activity levels – may not necessarily deliver this. In our study, we examine whether youth wings nurture the members parties want using YOUMEM survey data from over 5000 members o…
Party Youth Wings as Forces of Renovation
Party youth wings are a vital pipeline to power, but have been overlooked by gender scholars. We investigate the political socialization that youth wings offer their women members, focusing on gendered trends as regards two key political attitudes. We ask: Do women and men in youth wings differ in their acquisition of personal efficacy and electoral ambition? Using YOUMEM survey data from over 3,100 youth wing members in Australia, Austria, Germa…
On/off(line)
Digital technologies provide a novel environment for political activities and, more specifically, for interactions between citizens and political actors. The scholarly literature on these topics is flourishing. On the one hand, studies of political communication emphasise the changing nature of election campaigns and the reshaped relationship between leaders and supporters. On the other hand, the literature on political parties examines the organ…
Analyzing ideological disparities in multi-speed membership parties
Party organizations are undergoing notable transformations. The existing literature commonly indicates a shift towards participatory models and membership forms that blur the distinction between party members and sympathizers. These transformations have significant implications for internal party unity and coherence. This study examines the ideological cohesion among members, sympathizers, and voters, using the Italian Democratic Party as a case …
Inside party youth wings
Youth wings fulfil vital democratic functions. They connect parties with young people, socialise them into political life, and train future candidates and officials. Yet, youth wings have been largely overlooked by party scholars. In this article, we present the Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) dataset. With responses from over 5000 members of 12 centre-left and centre-right youth wings in Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Swede…
Young radicals, moderates and aligned
The ideological fit between party grassroots and leaderships has long been a concern for political science, with members in general, and young members in particular, thought to be more radical. However, we do not know, first, whether this is still the case and, if it is, what drives members in different ideological directions. To investigate, we propose a new typology of members as radicals, moderates and aligned, and develop a theoretical framew…
Max Weber meets Silvio Berlusconi’s charismatic parties. The history of a spectacular failure
Economic voting goes local
This article investigates the pattern of economic voting at the regional level in Italy. It focuses on the elections held in 18 out of 20 Italian regions from 1995 to 2020. Retrospective voting is examined by using the theory of economic voting, measured at the subnational level. By providing some inferential models and controlling for the impact of phases of recession, this article tests the hypothesis whereby the incumbent regional government i…
To vote or not to vote in the homeland elections? Insights into voting abstention in Italy's constituency abroad
Since its introduction in the early 2000s, legislation relating to the voting rights of Italians abroad has enabled millions of residents of voting age outside of Italy to engage in homeland elections and elect their own MPs. The inclusion of Italian citizens abroad in the Italian polity has nevertheless translated into a patchy electoral engagement. This article does not intend to provide an analysis of the voting choices in Italy's overseas con…
The presidential ‘accordion’ plays for us all
More than any other president of a contemporary parliamentary democracy, the Italian head of state has played a significant political role. Indeed, since the transformation of the Italian party system in 1992–3 and especially in times of economic crisis or political turmoil, Italian presidents have actively intervened in a significant way to safeguard the Constitution and improve the working of the Italian political system. In this context, the ‘…
It's about the type of career
One of the main supply‐side explanations for women's underrepresentation in politics is the gender gap in nascent political ambition. While this has been examined in terms of electoral ambition, the aspiration to pursue non‐electoral careers within parties has been overlooked. In our study, we therefore investigate whether both types of ambition – electoral and non‐electoral – vary among young women and men participating in a key entry point for …
Special Issue Introduction – The 2022 Italian general election
This introduction to the special issue places the 2022 Italian general election within the recent electoral history of Italy and the broader European context. Following the same multidimensional structure adopted for this collection of articles, here we address general questions regarding the significance of the last election, its dynamics, and implications. Firstly, to what extent did it represent a change compared to previous Italian elections?…
The impact of the pandemic on the Italian party system. The Draghi government and the ‘new’ polarisation
In 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic dominated the agenda of Italian politics as much as it had done in 2020. Political conflicts within the parties were relegated to the background or else were heavily influenced by the debate concerning management of the health emergency. The global scale of the pandemic and the measures taken at European level to mitigate the economic impact helped first to put an end to the Conte II government and then to bring to …
The 2022 general Italian elections. The long-awaited victory of the right
The 2022 Italian parliamentary elections had an announced winner: the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's party (Fratelli d'Italia [F.d.I.]). Despite the low level of competitiveness, caused mainly by divisions in the centre-left camp, and the high predictability of the election outcome, the elections have had profound consequences for the Italian party system and also for decision-making within the European Union. In addition to provi…
Italian regions turn fifty. A new typology of regional party systems in Italy, 1970-2020
The article analyses the transformations of the regional party systems that have occurred since the first elections held in 1970. In particular, after a preliminary analysis of the massive changes observed in the electoral arena before and after the 1995 turning point, the article discusses existing typologies of Italian regions and suggests a new analytical framework that accounts for the transformations that have occurred at the regional level …
Italian regional elections 2018–2020. Re-alignment beyond populism
Technocratic cabinets
This chapter aims to show that technocracy is neither a complex nor a multidimensional concept. It discusses the possibility for future research based on the analyses and the conceptualizations/operationalizations of technocracy put forward. The concept of technocracy can be applied to different political regimes. In other words, technocracy as a type of cabinet can occur in a democratic as well as in a non-democratic setting. Technocracy as a mo…
Beyond the crisis … resilience and adaptation. Italian political parties and their organizational transformations
Why (and when) did we stop studying parties for what they are, that is, as organizations? First of all, for epistemological reasons. Following the assumptions of the many shades of so-called neo-in
Populism Put to the Polarisation Test
One year after the birth of an unprecedented government characterised by the strong populist stance of both coalition partners (M5S and the Lega) and amid a growing polarisation in party positions on a number of political issues, the European and regional elections of 2019–20 marked an important test for Italy. After presenting the results of the 2019–20 election cycle, the article investigates the most salient lines of party competition and the …
L'Italia sovranista e la sfida all'Europa
The 2019 European Elections
In this article we provide a general interpretation of the results of the 2019 elections of the European Parliament in Italy. The Italian case contains several elements that are, at the same time, ambivalent and interesting, especially if observed in a larger, European-wide comparative perspective. Besides a general interpretation of the vote for the European Parliament, the article discuss also the consequences of the elections results for the t…
Sovereignty in the Italian polling booths
This article provides a general interpretation of the 2019 European parliamentary elections, with a special focus on the vote in Italy and on its consequences for the functioning of the Italian political system. It also offers a short description of the articles included in this special issue dedicated to the 2019 E.U. election. In the last section this introduction discusses critically the interpretation of the 2019 European vote as a case of so…
When populists meet technocrats. The Italian innovation in government formation
This article provides an analysis of how the 4 March Italian electoral results have affected the formation of the government. Numerically there existed four possible governing coalitions: Five Star Movement (M.5.S.) plus Centre-Right; M.5.S. plus Democratic Party; Centre-Right plus Democratic Party; M.5.S. plus League. Once the resigning secretary of the Democratic Party decided that his party had to go and remain in the opposition and the M.5.S.…
Defining and classifying technocrat‐led and technocratic governments
Governments led by technocrats remain a nebulous category in political science literature, with little clarity about how they differ from party governments, how many have existed and how we can differentiate between them. This article aims to provide that conceptual and empirical clarity. Having proposed an ideal type definition of ‘technocratic government’, it sets out three conditions for an operational definition of a ‘technocrat’ and, on that…
Non-partisan governments Italian-style
Three non-partisan governments in less than 20 years, Italy reveals once more her deviance from European parliamentary democracies. This article explores the reasons why and how non partisan governments have been formed. It evaluates their contributions in terms of problem-solving and decision-making capabilities. It identifies their major democratic inconvenient in their almost total lack of accountability. Non-partisan governments are the conse…
It's about the type of career
One of the main supply‐side explanations for women's underrepresentation in politics is the gender gap in nascent political ambition. While this has been examined in terms of electoral ambition, the aspiration to pursue non‐electoral careers within parties has been overlooked. In our study, we therefore investigate whether both types of ambition – electoral and non‐electoral – vary among young women and men participating in a key entry point for …
Populism Put to the Polarisation Test
One year after the birth of an unprecedented government characterised by the strong populist stance of both coalition partners (M5S and the Lega) and amid a growing polarisation in party positions on a number of political issues, the European and regional elections of 2019–20 marked an important test for Italy. After presenting the results of the 2019–20 election cycle, the article investigates the most salient lines of party competition and the …
When populists meet technocrats. The Italian innovation in government formation
This article provides an analysis of how the 4 March Italian electoral results have affected the formation of the government. Numerically there existed four possible governing coalitions: Five Star Movement (M.5.S.) plus Centre-Right; M.5.S. plus Democratic Party; Centre-Right plus Democratic Party; M.5.S. plus League. Once the resigning secretary of the Democratic Party decided that his party had to go and remain in the opposition and the M.5.S.…
Italy says no
On 4 December 2016, Italians went to the polls to say yes or no in a popular referendum called by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on his package of constitutional reforms. Turnout was very high: 65.5 per cent. The No vote scored an impressive victory: 59.1 per cent rejected those reforms; 40.9 per cent supported them. This article puts those reforms in the context of previous attempts to modify several articles of the Italian constitution. The author…
Is trasformismo a useful category for analysing modern Italian politics
The Italian vice, a historic stain, national character or simply a system of government? For many years and certainly since the founding of the Italian state, transformism/trasformismo has been one of the concepts most used and abused by scholars to describe the (mal)functioning of Italian political institutions and the low yields of its political system. This essay reconstructs the entire political and historical trajectory of transformism in It…
The 2022 general Italian elections. The long-awaited victory of the right
The 2022 Italian parliamentary elections had an announced winner: the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's party (Fratelli d'Italia [F.d.I.]). Despite the low level of competitiveness, caused mainly by divisions in the centre-left camp, and the high predictability of the election outcome, the elections have had profound consequences for the Italian party system and also for decision-making within the European Union. In addition to provi…
The 2019 European Elections
In this article we provide a general interpretation of the results of the 2019 elections of the European Parliament in Italy. The Italian case contains several elements that are, at the same time, ambivalent and interesting, especially if observed in a larger, European-wide comparative perspective. Besides a general interpretation of the vote for the European Parliament, the article discuss also the consequences of the elections results for the t…
Inside party youth wings
Youth wings fulfil vital democratic functions. They connect parties with young people, socialise them into political life, and train future candidates and officials. Yet, youth wings have been largely overlooked by party scholars. In this article, we present the Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) dataset. With responses from over 5000 members of 12 centre-left and centre-right youth wings in Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Swede…
The impact of the pandemic on the Italian party system. The Draghi government and the ‘new’ polarisation
In 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic dominated the agenda of Italian politics as much as it had done in 2020. Political conflicts within the parties were relegated to the background or else were heavily influenced by the debate concerning management of the health emergency. The global scale of the pandemic and the measures taken at European level to mitigate the economic impact helped first to put an end to the Conte II government and then to bring to …
Post-electoral politics in Italy
A dysfunctional electoral law and an obsolete bicameral Parliament contributed to the surprising results of the 24-25 February 2013 Italian elections, which have solved none of Italy's institutional and political problems. This article briefly analyses the distribution of votes, stressing especially that the success of the Five Stars Movement derives from the dissatisfaction and the protest of a significant sector of the electorate. Beppe Grillo,…
Still an outlier
There are many superficial reasons to believe that the Italian political system does not work in a satisfactory way. In this paper, we explore three different areas: parties and the party system; the governments; and the satisfaction of Italian citizens with their politics and their personal life. We utilize a variety of data to illustrate the most important points and we do so comparing Italy with Greece, Portugal and Spain. Practically, on all …
Economic voting goes local
This article investigates the pattern of economic voting at the regional level in Italy. It focuses on the elections held in 18 out of 20 Italian regions from 1995 to 2020. Retrospective voting is examined by using the theory of economic voting, measured at the subnational level. By providing some inferential models and controlling for the impact of phases of recession, this article tests the hypothesis whereby the incumbent regional government i…
Italian regions turn fifty. A new typology of regional party systems in Italy, 1970-2020
The article analyses the transformations of the regional party systems that have occurred since the first elections held in 1970. In particular, after a preliminary analysis of the massive changes observed in the electoral arena before and after the 1995 turning point, the article discusses existing typologies of Italian regions and suggests a new analytical framework that accounts for the transformations that have occurred at the regional level …
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 …
Young radicals, moderates and aligned
The ideological fit between party grassroots and leaderships has long been a concern for political science, with members in general, and young members in particular, thought to be more radical. However, we do not know, first, whether this is still the case and, if it is, what drives members in different ideological directions. To investigate, we propose a new typology of members as radicals, moderates and aligned, and develop a theoretical framew…
Primary elections between fortuna and virtù
Primaries have become an almost indispensable tool of the political game in the Italian centre-left coalition and, especially, within the Democratic Party. This article explores what has led to this important institutional change in the candidate and leadership selection processes. It assesses the consequences with reference to both competition and inclusiveness. It concludes by stressing that, frequent, undocumented and unfounded criticisms notw…
Le primarie comunali di Firenze del 15 febbraio 2009
Le interviste su cui si basa questo lavoro sono state rese possibili dalla disponibilità e cortesia di numerose persone. L’Ufficio Elettorale della Regione Toscana ha garantito un insostituibile supporto logistico. Antonio Floridia, dirigente del medesimo Ufficio, e Osvaldo Miraglia, responsabile organizzativo del Partito Democratico di Firenze, ci hanno orientato con la loro conoscenza del territorio comunale. Mimmo Talò ha contribuito in manier…
Max Weber meets Silvio Berlusconi’s charismatic parties. The history of a spectacular failure
To vote or not to vote in the homeland elections? Insights into voting abstention in Italy's constituency abroad
Since its introduction in the early 2000s, legislation relating to the voting rights of Italians abroad has enabled millions of residents of voting age outside of Italy to engage in homeland elections and elect their own MPs. The inclusion of Italian citizens abroad in the Italian polity has nevertheless translated into a patchy electoral engagement. This article does not intend to provide an analysis of the voting choices in Italy's overseas con…
Special Issue Introduction – The 2022 Italian general election
This introduction to the special issue places the 2022 Italian general election within the recent electoral history of Italy and the broader European context. Following the same multidimensional structure adopted for this collection of articles, here we address general questions regarding the significance of the last election, its dynamics, and implications. Firstly, to what extent did it represent a change compared to previous Italian elections?…
Italian regional elections 2018–2020. Re-alignment beyond populism
Sovereignty in the Italian polling booths
This article provides a general interpretation of the 2019 European parliamentary elections, with a special focus on the vote in Italy and on its consequences for the functioning of the Italian political system. It also offers a short description of the articles included in this special issue dedicated to the 2019 E.U. election. In the last section this introduction discusses critically the interpretation of the 2019 European vote as a case of so…
The impact of the 2013 general election on the Italian political system
This article offers an in-depth analysis of the way in which the results of the 2013 national elections have changed the Italian political system, with a particular emphasis on the crisis and possible end of bipolarism, and its consequences. Following a long, first phase of the Italian Republic in which bipolarism was neither practiced nor possible, the second phase (1994–2013) exhibited a muscular competition between two slightly changing politi…
Still an outlier
There are many superficial reasons to believe that the Italian political system does not work in a satisfactory way. In this paper, we explore three different areas: parties and the party system; the governments; and the satisfaction of Italian citizens with their politics and their personal life. We utilize a variety of data to illustrate the most important points and we do so comparing Italy with Greece, Portugal and Spain. Practically, on all …
Le primarie comunali di Firenze del 15 febbraio 2009
Le interviste su cui si basa questo lavoro sono state rese possibili dalla disponibilità e cortesia di numerose persone. L’Ufficio Elettorale della Regione Toscana ha garantito un insostituibile supporto logistico. Antonio Floridia, dirigente del medesimo Ufficio, e Osvaldo Miraglia, responsabile organizzativo del Partito Democratico di Firenze, ci hanno orientato con la loro conoscenza del territorio comunale. Mimmo Talò ha contribuito in manier…
Non-partisan governments Italian-style
Three non-partisan governments in less than 20 years, Italy reveals once more her deviance from European parliamentary democracies. This article explores the reasons why and how non partisan governments have been formed. It evaluates their contributions in terms of problem-solving and decision-making capabilities. It identifies their major democratic inconvenient in their almost total lack of accountability. Non-partisan governments are the conse…
Post-electoral politics in Italy
A dysfunctional electoral law and an obsolete bicameral Parliament contributed to the surprising results of the 24-25 February 2013 Italian elections, which have solved none of Italy's institutional and political problems. This article briefly analyses the distribution of votes, stressing especially that the success of the Five Stars Movement derives from the dissatisfaction and the protest of a significant sector of the electorate. Beppe Grillo,…
Is trasformismo a useful category for analysing modern Italian politics
The Italian vice, a historic stain, national character or simply a system of government? For many years and certainly since the founding of the Italian state, transformism/trasformismo has been one of the concepts most used and abused by scholars to describe the (mal)functioning of Italian political institutions and the low yields of its political system. This essay reconstructs the entire political and historical trajectory of transformism in It…
Defining and classifying technocrat‐led and technocratic governments
Governments led by technocrats remain a nebulous category in political science literature, with little clarity about how they differ from party governments, how many have existed and how we can differentiate between them. This article aims to provide that conceptual and empirical clarity. Having proposed an ideal type definition of ‘technocratic government’, it sets out three conditions for an operational definition of a ‘technocrat’ and, on that…
The impact of the 2013 general election on the Italian political system
This article offers an in-depth analysis of the way in which the results of the 2013 national elections have changed the Italian political system, with a particular emphasis on the crisis and possible end of bipolarism, and its consequences. Following a long, first phase of the Italian Republic in which bipolarism was neither practiced nor possible, the second phase (1994–2013) exhibited a muscular competition between two slightly changing politi…
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 …
Primary elections between fortuna and virtù
Primaries have become an almost indispensable tool of the political game in the Italian centre-left coalition and, especially, within the Democratic Party. This article explores what has led to this important institutional change in the candidate and leadership selection processes. It assesses the consequences with reference to both competition and inclusiveness. It concludes by stressing that, frequent, undocumented and unfounded criticisms notw…
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…
Sartori and Italian politics
This article explores Giovanni Sartori’s contributions to the analysis and understanding of Italian politics. Sartori never studied and analysed the case of Italy in ‘splendid’ isolation from other cases. Rather he was at pains to place Italy within a broad and empirically grounded comparative perspective. On the basis of his approach, Sartori repeatedly intervened in the Italian public debate to suggest his own proposals for the improvement of t…
Italy says no
On 4 December 2016, Italians went to the polls to say yes or no in a popular referendum called by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on his package of constitutional reforms. Turnout was very high: 65.5 per cent. The No vote scored an impressive victory: 59.1 per cent rejected those reforms; 40.9 per cent supported them. This article puts those reforms in the context of previous attempts to modify several articles of the Italian constitution. The author…
When populists meet technocrats. The Italian innovation in government formation
This article provides an analysis of how the 4 March Italian electoral results have affected the formation of the government. Numerically there existed four possible governing coalitions: Five Star Movement (M.5.S.) plus Centre-Right; M.5.S. plus Democratic Party; Centre-Right plus Democratic Party; M.5.S. plus League. Once the resigning secretary of the Democratic Party decided that his party had to go and remain in the opposition and the M.5.S.…
L'Italia sovranista e la sfida all'Europa
The 2019 European Elections
In this article we provide a general interpretation of the results of the 2019 elections of the European Parliament in Italy. The Italian case contains several elements that are, at the same time, ambivalent and interesting, especially if observed in a larger, European-wide comparative perspective. Besides a general interpretation of the vote for the European Parliament, the article discuss also the consequences of the elections results for the t…
Sovereignty in the Italian polling booths
This article provides a general interpretation of the 2019 European parliamentary elections, with a special focus on the vote in Italy and on its consequences for the functioning of the Italian political system. It also offers a short description of the articles included in this special issue dedicated to the 2019 E.U. election. In the last section this introduction discusses critically the interpretation of the 2019 European vote as a case of so…
Technocratic cabinets
This chapter aims to show that technocracy is neither a complex nor a multidimensional concept. It discusses the possibility for future research based on the analyses and the conceptualizations/operationalizations of technocracy put forward. The concept of technocracy can be applied to different political regimes. In other words, technocracy as a type of cabinet can occur in a democratic as well as in a non-democratic setting. Technocracy as a mo…
Beyond the crisis … resilience and adaptation. Italian political parties and their organizational transformations
Why (and when) did we stop studying parties for what they are, that is, as organizations? First of all, for epistemological reasons. Following the assumptions of the many shades of so-called neo-in
Populism Put to the Polarisation Test
One year after the birth of an unprecedented government characterised by the strong populist stance of both coalition partners (M5S and the Lega) and amid a growing polarisation in party positions on a number of political issues, the European and regional elections of 2019–20 marked an important test for Italy. After presenting the results of the 2019–20 election cycle, the article investigates the most salient lines of party competition and the …
Italian regions turn fifty. A new typology of regional party systems in Italy, 1970-2020
The article analyses the transformations of the regional party systems that have occurred since the first elections held in 1970. In particular, after a preliminary analysis of the massive changes observed in the electoral arena before and after the 1995 turning point, the article discusses existing typologies of Italian regions and suggests a new analytical framework that accounts for the transformations that have occurred at the regional level …
Italian regional elections 2018–2020. Re-alignment beyond populism
The impact of the pandemic on the Italian party system. The Draghi government and the ‘new’ polarisation
In 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic dominated the agenda of Italian politics as much as it had done in 2020. Political conflicts within the parties were relegated to the background or else were heavily influenced by the debate concerning management of the health emergency. The global scale of the pandemic and the measures taken at European level to mitigate the economic impact helped first to put an end to the Conte II government and then to bring to …
The 2022 general Italian elections. The long-awaited victory of the right
The 2022 Italian parliamentary elections had an announced winner: the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's party (Fratelli d'Italia [F.d.I.]). Despite the low level of competitiveness, caused mainly by divisions in the centre-left camp, and the high predictability of the election outcome, the elections have had profound consequences for the Italian party system and also for decision-making within the European Union. In addition to provi…
The presidential ‘accordion’ plays for us all
More than any other president of a contemporary parliamentary democracy, the Italian head of state has played a significant political role. Indeed, since the transformation of the Italian party system in 1992–3 and especially in times of economic crisis or political turmoil, Italian presidents have actively intervened in a significant way to safeguard the Constitution and improve the working of the Italian political system. In this context, the ‘…
It's about the type of career
One of the main supply‐side explanations for women's underrepresentation in politics is the gender gap in nascent political ambition. While this has been examined in terms of electoral ambition, the aspiration to pursue non‐electoral careers within parties has been overlooked. In our study, we therefore investigate whether both types of ambition – electoral and non‐electoral – vary among young women and men participating in a key entry point for …
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