item: #1 of 115 id: ips-100 author: Pettrachin, Andrea title: When Asylum Policies Go Local: the Case of Socially Useful Works for Asylum-Seekers. date: 2019-09-10 words: 8757 flesch: 52 summary: Second, which elements shape mayors’ decisions to adopt (or not) local asylum policies and their policy goals? On the one hand, while this literature has focused on the explanation of the variation and effects of local asylum policy, both the role of mayors’ political affiliations in local pol- icy-making and their motivations and policy goals have been largely ignored. keywords: 2016; actors; affiliations; aims; ambrosini; analysis; andrea; anti; approach; article; asylum; asylum policies; case; centre; community; crisis; decisions; different; effects; events; experiences; goals; governance; governments; identity; implementation; independent; independent centre; independent mayors; influence; insights; institutional; integration; interactions; issue; italian; key; left; level; literature; local; main; making; mayors; measures; migrant; migration; municipalities; national; number; party; past; pd mayors; people; pettrachin; policies; policy; political; processes; projects; protests; public; reception; region; right; right mayors; role; second; seekers; sensemaking; similar; situations; social; strong; suw; suw policies; system; understandings; veneto; ways; weick; wing; work cache: ips-100.pdf plain text: ips-100.txt item: #2 of 115 id: ips-102 author: Rebessi, Elisa title: Unintended consequences of fighting corruption: judicial decisions for the award of public contracts in three Italian cities date: 2019-08-12 words: 6067 flesch: 33 summary: Spiller’s (2008) institutional theory of public contracts and Moszoro and Spiller’s (2012) account of public contract rigidity can be used to analyse the strategies adopted by contracting authorities in local public procurement, and in particular to explain the room contracting authorities leave for their own discretionary evaluations in adjudication pro- cedures. The local administrations may design public contract awarding procedures using more or less discretion, according to the like- lihood of receiving legal challenges from third parties. keywords: administrative; analysis; applicants; authorities; awarding; cases; challenges; code; competitive; competitiveness; consequences; context; contracting; courts; data; decisions; discretion; discretionary; economic; elisa; firms; higher; implementation; italian; judicial; judicial decisions; law; lazio; litigation; local; lombardy; lower; measures; milan; municipalities; municipality; number; operators; opportunism; paper; particular; party; political; potential; procedures; procurement; public; public contracts; public procurement; public works; rebessi; requirements; rigid; risk; rome; sector; services; spiller; tendering; turin; unexpected; units; use; works cache: ips-102.pdf plain text: ips-102.txt item: #3 of 115 id: ips-104 author: Mancosu, Moreno; Ladini, Riccardo title: The neo-fascist territorial legacy and the success of the Lega in the 2019 European elections: a multilevel approach date: 2019-10-21 words: 7204 flesch: 58 summary: We should also consider that the Lega’s best performance at the national level before the leadership of Matteo Salvini, who became leader of the party in December 2013, was far lower than the most recent one – dating back to the 1996 national elections, when 3.8 million people voted for Lega Nord (about 10% of valid votes). Il successo della Lega in Toscana e l’eredità del Msi. keywords: area; attitudes; central; centre; communication; consensus; context; contextual; data; dependence; elections; electoral; european; extreme; fascist; geographical; higher; individual; italian; italy; ladini; leadership; left; lega; legacy; level; literature; mancosu; means; minority; model; movimento; msi; multilevel; municipal; national; neo; new; nord; north; paper; parties; party; passarelli; path; performance; period; political; present; previous; propensities; propensity; regions; republic; respondents; results; rhetoric; right; salvini; shift; sociale; south; southern; studies; success; support; territorial; tradition; trajectories; tuorto; variables; vote; voting; wing; years cache: ips-104.pdf plain text: ips-104.txt item: #4 of 115 id: ips-105 author: Seddone, Antonella; Bobba, Giuliano; Roncarolo, Franca title: European versus Domestic Politics: Media Negativity during the 2019 European Elections Campaign in Italy date: 2019-10-21 words: 9349 flesch: 55 summary: Banducci and Semetko (2003) found that EU news coverage affects turnout in European elections, while other scholars have shown a correlation between citizens’ support for future European integra- tion and the features of news coverage on the EU (e.g. Maier & Rittberger, 2008; Vliegenthart et al., 2008). EU news coverage also contributes to enhancing the process of Europeanizing national public spheres (e.g. Fossum & Schlesinger, 2007) and strength- ening the legitimacy of the EU institutions (e.g. Trenz, 2008). keywords: actors; berlusconi; bobba; boomgaarden; campaign; case; communication; country; coverage; debate; differences; different; domestic; domestic politics; e.g.; elections; eu news; eu political; european; european politics; europeanization; eurosceptic; foreign; general; horizontal; institutions; integration; issues; italian; italy; items; journal; likelihood; likely; media; media coverage; model; national; negative; negative news; negative tone; negativity; neutral; news; news coverage; news items; newscasts; newspapers; outlets; parties; patterns; political; political actors; politics; positive; press; public; reference; related; research; roncarolo; seddone; stories; story; strong; studies; study; table; tone; variables; vertical; vreese cache: ips-105.pdf plain text: ips-105.txt item: #5 of 115 id: ips-109 author: Galanti, Maria Tullia title: The Last Mile: When Policies Go Local date: 2019-09-10 words: 1974 flesch: 48 summary: Profeti S., (2019), Reshaping policy solutions through local implementation: The rationaliza- tion of municipal corporations in Leghorn and the case of AAMPS, Italian Political Science, 14 (1). On the policy side, the implementation of national policies offered a unique opportunity for the application of problem-solving as the proper analytical perspective for policy studies in the country (Dente et al. 1990). keywords: analysis; bobbio; bologna; case; contracts; data; dente; eds; galanti; implementation; issue; italian; italy; level; lippi; local; mayors; new; policies; policy; political; politics; problem; profeti; public; rebessi; research; science; sense; studies; study; university cache: ips-109.pdf plain text: ips-109.txt item: #6 of 115 id: ips-114 author: Gallina, Marta; DeCastellarnau, Anna title: Is it all about education? A study of the impact of media exposure on political knowledge in Italy date: 2020-02-09 words: 8548 flesch: 52 summary: A study of the impact of media exposure on political knowledge in Italy Marta Gallina UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN Anna DeCastellarnau SOCIOMETRIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION Abstract This article investigates the individual predictors of political knowledge by means of a test that takes into account both ‘traditional’ factors (i.e. education and interest) and media exposure. keywords: affairs; age; american; analysis; case; coding; communication; correction; data; decastellarnau; different; economic; education; effect; elections; errors; european; exposure; factors; fraile; gallina; gap; gender; hand; impact; index; individual; information; interest; internet; italian; italy; journal; knowledge; knowledge gap; learning; level; literature; measurement; media; media exposure; model; news; newspapers; particular; people; political; political information; political interest; political knowledge; politics; positive; predictors; press; public; quality; questions; research; results; role; saris; scholars; significant; situation; social; society; sophistication; sqp; studies; study; survey; table; television; test; traditional; use; variables; voters cache: ips-114.pdf plain text: ips-114.txt item: #7 of 115 id: ips-116 author: Bobba, Giuliano; Quaranta, Mario title: A new page for Europe? Insights from the 2019 European Elections in Italy date: 2019-10-21 words: 2300 flesch: 62 summary: However, Italy still shows limited politi- cization of European integration: parties have developed new strategies on EU issues but citizens’ preferences seem not to be significantly affected by the pro/anti-European di- mension (Carrieri 2019). European elections appear far from being simply sec- ond-order elections, at least according to their original definition. keywords: attitudes; bobba; campaign; citizens; crisis; domestic; elections; european; eurosceptic; integration; issue; italian; italy; journal; kriesi; lega; media; new; news; order; parties; political; politicization; politics; public; research; science; second; special; strategies; success; turin cache: ips-116.pdf plain text: ips-116.txt item: #8 of 115 id: ips-117 author: Visconti, Francesco; Pellegata, Alessandro title: Representation in hard times: party-voter distance on support for Social Europe in Italy date: 2020-02-09 words: 8829 flesch: 56 summary: Even if M5S representa- tives are less in favour of EU solidarity policies than left-wing parties (apart from the item on subsistence in case of a severe crisis), they tend to be very much attuned to their voters and the general citizenry. The first is a public opinion survey carried out in the autumn of 2016 that evaluates citi- zens’ preferences on EU solidarity. keywords: analysis; average; case; cent; challenger; citizens; closer; common; congruence; countries; country; crisis; data; differences; distance; economic; elections; electoral; elite; eu member; eu solidarity; european; european solidarity; favour; figure; financial; general; hard; help; immigration; index; institutions; integration; interpolated; introduction; issue; italian; italian citizens; italy; items; journal; left; level; m5s; mass; masses; median; member; member states; mps; multiple; national; new; opinion; parties; party; pellegata; policies; policy; political; politics; preferences; project; public; representatives; role; share; si+mdp; social; solidarity; states; study; support; survey; times; unemployment; union; university; visconti; voters; ● ● cache: ips-117.pdf plain text: ips-117.txt item: #9 of 115 id: ips-118 author: Donà, Alessia title: Who is afraid of ‘Gender’? Gender and Politics research between institutionalization and contestation in Italy date: 2020-02-09 words: 5149 flesch: 54 summary: All these initiatives were promoted in the name of the family, Christian identity, and ‘real people’, not only to attack existing equality policies, but also to discredit the sci- entific standing of gender research and gender scholars. Why are gender studies and scholars under attack today? keywords: academic; afraid; alessia; anti; association; attack; context; countries; discipline; donà; eds; education; equality; european; family; female; feminist; field; future; gender; gender research; gender studies; gendered; government; inclusion; institutionalization; international; issues; italian; italian political; italy; journal; lega; lgbt; london; mazur; minister; movement; natural; new; oxford; party; paternotte; political; political science; politics; populist; profession; radical; research; right; scholars; scholarship; science; sisp; social; state; studies; study; system; today; traditional; universities; university; verloo; vol; women cache: ips-118.pdf plain text: ips-118.txt item: #10 of 115 id: ips-119 author: Marino, Bruno; Verzichelli, Luca title: Political Science in Italian Universities: Demand, Supply, and Vitality date: 2020-02-09 words: 5880 flesch: 49 summary: PDF_Issue_14_3_Marino_Verzichelli Italian Political Science, VOLUME 14 ISSUE 3, FEBRUARY 2020 More in detail, three aspects of the current state of Italian Political Science will be explored. keywords: absolute; academic; capano; central; class; classes; community; courses; data; degrees; demand; discipline; distribution; doctoral; fellows; figure; geographical; italian; italian political; italian universities; italy; l36; lm52; lm62; master; ministerial; non; northern; number; political; political science; population; positions; post; presence; professors; programmes; reform; relevant; research; researchers; rtd; science; scientists; social; southern; students; subjects; supply; table; tenure; time; total; track; universities; university; verzichelli; years cache: ips-119.pdf plain text: ips-119.txt item: #11 of 115 id: ips-121 author: Pilati, Katia; Perra, Sabrina title: Labor conflicts and trade unions: Social movement and radical political unionisms in France and Italy date: 2020-02-09 words: 11254 flesch: 46 summary: Trade Unions and Labour Conflicts 186 Leonardi, S. (2018), ‘Trade unions and collective bargaining in Italy during the crisis’, in Lehndorff, S., Dribbusch, H. and Schulten, T. (eds), Rough waters: European trade unions in a time of crises, Brussel: ETUI: 87-113. Leonardi, S. and Pedersini, R. (eds) (2018), Multiemployer bargaining under pressure: decen- tralization trends in five European Countries, Brussels, ETUI. This article explores differences in labour conflicts in Italy and France by focusing on the characteristics of the most prominent structures of worker mobilization: trade unions. keywords: actions; actors; alliances; ancelovici; austerity; average; baccaro; bargaining; building; case; cgil; cgt; changes; characteristics; cillo; claims; collective; conditions; confederal; confederal trade; conflicts; contrast; countries; crisis; data; days; decades; density; differences; different; dynamics; economic; eds; employment; european; file; forms; france; french; government; great; groups; independent; industrial; institutional; interests; italian; italy; journal; kriesi; labour; labour conflicts; level; likely; long; main; major; membership; mobilization; movement; national; new; number; organizations; organized; oxford; percent; period; perra; pilati; political; politics; power; pradella; press; process; protests; public; radical; rank; recession; relations; repertoire; resources; review; rights; role; scholars; sector; self; small; social; social movement; society; southern; strikes; studies; support; system; tapia; term; times; trade unions; traditional; unionism; university; vandaele; visser; volume; workers; working cache: ips-121.pdf plain text: ips-121.txt item: #12 of 115 id: ips-122 author: Coticchia, Fabrizio; Moro, Francesco Niccolò title: From enthusiasm to retreat: Italy and military missions abroad after the Cold War date: 2020-05-27 words: 9222 flesch: 50 summary: We mention three types of factors particularly for understanding Italian military missions abroad. First, the article reviews three decades of Italian military operations abroad, dissecting the major trends. keywords: 1990s; 2012; activism; afghanistan; air; analysis; andreatta; armed; article; attention; authors; balkans; brighi; carati; case; ceccorulli; century; change; cladi; clear; cold; combat; commitment; constraints; context; coticchia; crisis; crucial; davidson; debate; decade; defense; defense policy; different; domestic; end; engagement; enlarged; enthusiasm; european; evolution; explaining; factors; forces; foreign; foreign policy; government; ground; iai; ignazi; important; institutional; interests; international; interventions; involvement; iraq; italian; italian armed; italian defense; italian military; italy; key; lebanon; libya; limited; locatelli; l’italia; major; mediterranean; military; military operations; missions; moro; multilateral; new; operations; overall; paper; parliamentary; parties; peace; policy; political; politics; post; power; public; retreat; review; role; second; security; somalia; specific; starting; strategic; terms; threats; time; transformation; troops; vignoli; vital; war cache: ips-122.pdf plain text: ips-122.txt item: #13 of 115 id: ips-123 author: Natalizia, Gabriele; Morini, Mara title: Sleeping with the Enemy: The not-so-constant Italian stance towards Russia date: 2020-05-27 words: 9520 flesch: 61 summary: L’Italia invierà 140 soldati in Lettonia con la Nato al confine con la Russia. Il conflitto in Ucraina e le sanzioni contro la Russia. keywords: affairs; alliance; approach; article; atlantic; balkans; berlusconi; bettanin; books; bridge; cambridge; carbone; case; challenge; changes; choice; cold; colombo; competitive; constant; cooperative; countries; crisis; cultural; del; eastern; economic; enemy; eni; environment; estera; europe; european; fact; force; foreign; foreign policy; gas; germany; global; good; government; gradual; hand; ifp; influence; instability; interaction; interests; international; international order; interwar; italian; italian foreign; italy; kremlin; league; liberal; light; literature; london; long; major; mediterranean; membership; middle; milano; military; minister; morini; moscow; natalizia; nations; nato; new; order; pact; partnership; period; petracchi; policies; policy; political; politics; posture; powers; project; putin; relations; relationship; result; revisionist; role; romano; rome; russia; sanctions; security; shift; significant; south; soviet; stable; stance; states; strand; strategic; strategy; stream; structural; summit; system; ties; time; turn; union; united; university; ussr; war; western; world; york cache: ips-123.pdf plain text: ips-123.txt item: #14 of 115 id: ips-124 author: Cladi, Lorenzo; Locatelli, Andrea title: The Me Too Syndrome reloaded: Change and continuity in Italian relations with France and Germany after Brexit date: 2020-05-27 words: 6733 flesch: 53 summary: Focusing on the impact of party politics on foreign policy, we argue that Italian foreign policy resulted from the political synthesis developed by each of the Italian cabinets ruling since 2016. 1. Introduction ne of the most debated issues among scholars of Italian foreign policy is to make sense of Italy’s long-term trends amidst short-term variations. keywords: analysis; anti; available; behaviour; brexit; cabinet; case; centre; change; cladi; coalition; cold; conte; cooperation; country; course; current; defence; different; domestic; european; evident; extent; foreign; foreign policy; france; gentiloni; germany; government; ideological; ideology; impact; initiatives; institutions; international; italian; italian foreign; italy; left; locatelli; long; m5s; main; marrone; mediterranean; membership; minister; nato; new; paris; parties; partners; party; pesco; policy; political; politics; populist; power; pro; relations; renzi; right; science; second; security; states; successive; syndrome; system; terms; union; variable; variation; war cache: ips-124.pdf plain text: ips-124.txt item: #15 of 115 id: ips-126 author: Dossi, Simone title: Italy-China relations and the Belt and Road Initiative. The need for a long-term vision date: 2020-05-27 words: 9575 flesch: 53 summary: Once in power, Geraci assumed a highly visible role in Italy’s China policy, for example by establishing at the Ministry of Economic Develop- ment a working group of China experts tasked with promoting relations with China – the so-called ‘Task Force Cina’. Italy-China relations and the Belt and Road Initiative 72 References Andornino, Giovanni (2014), ‘Strategic Ambitions in Times of Transition: Key Patterns in Contemporary Italy-China Relations’, in Maurizio Marinelli and Giovanni Andornino (eds.), Italy’s Encounters with Modern China. keywords: affari; africa; ambitions; analysts; andornino; asia; beijing; belt; bilateral; bri; cao; casarini; centre; china; china policy; china relations; chinese; companies; context; cooperation; council; countries; country; crisis; dai; dangdai; debate; decision; degli; della; development; dossi; east; economic; eds; esteri; europe; european; example; fardella; foreign; foreign policy; framework; general; geraci; ghiselli; giovanni; global; government; governo; guido; hand; infrastructure; initiative; international; investments; issue; italian; italy; jinping; key; level; long; main; majority; march; media; mediterranean; member; memorandum; middle; minister; ministro; new; north; order; orizzontecina; partners; party; people; place; point; policy; political; popolare; power; president; projects; public; reasons; region; relations; renzi; repubblica; road; road initiative; role; rome; samarani; santevecchi; scholars; second; sectors; security; shijie; silk; simone; situation; space; states; strategic; strategy; sun; support; term; time; trade; traditional; united; university; view; vision; visit; vol; wang; washington; world; yanhong; yidali; zhong cache: ips-126.pdf plain text: ips-126.txt item: #16 of 115 id: ips-129 author: Hanau Santini, Ruth title: Italian post-2011 foreign policy in the Mediterranean between status and fear date: 2020-05-27 words: 6722 flesch: 54 summary: Following the 2011 Arab Uprisings, increasing fragmentation in the MENA region, a more ambiguous US role and rising intra-EU divisions have constrained Italian foreign policy in the region. The way in which Italian foreign policy increasingly looks at the Mediterranean region, however, is through the lenses of United States (US) policies and intra-European Union (EU) dynamics. keywords: 2017; abandonment; affairs; andreatta; arab; article; atlanticism; available; berlin; cambridge; case; challenges; circles; cold; conference; constraints; country; crisis; dimension; diplomatic; domestic; dossier; early; economic; elections; emotions; european; europeanism; external; fear; forces; foreign; foreign policy; france; french; germany; government; haftar; hanau; historical; interests; international; italian; italian foreign; italy; key; left; libya; marginalization; mediterranean; middle; migratory; military; minister; mission; nations; nato; new; north; onea; paper; period; policies; policy; political; politics; post-2011; postwar; power; process; public; recognition; region; relations; role; rome; ruth; santini; search; second; security; social; southern; state; status; strategic; strategy; terms; tripoli; union; united; university; war; way; words; world cache: ips-129.pdf plain text: ips-129.txt item: #17 of 115 id: ips-13 author: Cotta, Maurizio title: In memoriam – Pietro Grilli di Cortona: A dedicated scholar and a humane person date: 2017-11-30 words: 901 flesch: 51 summary: Microsoft Word - PDF_Issue_12_2.docx Italian Political Science, VOLUME 12, ISSUE 2, SEPTEMBER 2017 © 2017 Italian Political Science. In memoriam Pietro Grilli di Cortona: a dedicated scholar and a humane person Maurizio Cotta UNIVERSITY OF SIENA n July 16, 2015, Professor Pietro Grilli di Cortona, then President of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) prematurely died at the age of only 61 years, after a long battle with a serious disease that he faced bravely. keywords: academic; communist; cortona; crisis; grilli; italian; mulino; person; pietro; political; professor; regimes; research; roma; scholar; science; university; volume cache: ips-13.pdf plain text: ips-13.txt item: #18 of 115 id: ips-130 author: Zotti, Antonio; Fassi, Enrico title: Immigration and Foreign Policy: Italy’s Domestic-International Linkage in the Management of Mass Human Movements date: 2020-05-27 words: 9549 flesch: 51 summary: Italian migration policy and politics: Exacerbating para- doxes, Contemporary Italian Politics. The following section of the article looks into the reasons why and the extent to which the ‘ex- ternal’ or ‘international’ dimension of Italian immigration policy has been the object of analytical conceptualisation and policy practices. keywords: affairs; africa; ambrosini; analysis; anti; area; article; asylum; asylum policy; attention; available; cabinet; case; centre; change; component; conditions; contemporary; countries; country; crisis; crucial; debate; development; different; dimension; discourses; doi; domestic; economic; eds; european; extent; external; fact; fassi; flows; foreign; foreign policy; foreigners; general; global; government; hand; high; human; humanitarian; iai; immigration policy; increase; integration; interior; international; international migration; issue; italian; italy; journal; league; left; london; low; m5s; makers; making; management; marco; matteo; measures; media; mediterranean; member; migrants; migration; migration crisis; minister; ministry; minniti; movement; new; ngos; notion; number; order; parties; party; people; policies; policy; political; politicisation; politics; population; position; practices; press; process; protection; public; refugee; relations; rescue; research; right; role; salvini; security; seekers; significant; smuggling; social; society; states; studies; system; time; traditional; trend; union; war; zotti cache: ips-130.pdf plain text: ips-130.txt item: #19 of 115 id: ips-132 author: Cavalieri, Alice title: Responsiveness, Responsibility and the Role of Parliament. Public Budgeting in Italy in the Time of Techno-Populism date: 2020-11-09 words: 10441 flesch: 55 summary: Many transfor- mations, such as the mediatization of political communication, globalization, and multilevel governance have put a strain on party government, exacerbating the struggle between responsiveness to public opinion and responsibility to domestic and interna- tional systemic constraints (Mair 2011). Quantitatively, two different sources can be used to study Italian budget policy, namely the budget bill (where the government draws its actual spending intentions, later submitted to parliament) and the budget law (approved by the Chambers at the end of the year after the parliamentary session). keywords: accetti; actors; affairs; alice; allocation; amendment; analysis; annual; balance; bickerton; bilancio; bill; budget; budget bill; budget distance; budget law; budget policy; budgetary; budgetary process; cabinet; case; categories; cavalieri; change; characteristics; choices; classified; coalition; commission; committee; confidence; conte; culture; debate; debt; decisions; degree; different; discussion; dissimilarity; distance; document; duncan; economic; education; elections; electoral; european; executive; expenditure; figure; finance; general; government; health; housing; index; index budget; italian; italian budget; italian political; italy; jones; journal; law; league; legislative; letter; level; m5s; mainstream; majority; manovra; maxi; measures; micro; minister; new; order; paper; parliament; parliamentary; parties; party; percentage; points; policy; political; politics; populist; preferences; previous; process; protection; public; r&d; research; responsibility; responsiveness; right; role; science; second; section; session; social; source; spending; stances; strategy; studies; study; table; techno; technocratic; term; text; time; total; transformativeness; verzichelli; vote; xviii; year cache: ips-132.pdf plain text: ips-132.txt item: #20 of 115 id: ips-136 author: Combei, Claudia Roberta; Farnè, Matteo; Pinto, Luca; Giannetti, Daniela title: Populism and Policy Issues: Examining Political Communication on Twitter in Italy 2018-2019 date: 2020-11-09 words: 8174 flesch: 56 summary: We catego- rized Italian political parties using estimates of their policy positions on the left-right and the populism dimensions. The paper is structured as follows: in section 2 we propose a way of cat- egorizing Italian populist parties; in section 3 we describe data and methods used in the empirical analysis of Twitter data; in section 4 we present and discuss our results. keywords: actors; analysis; appendix; applied; approach; bologna; cambridge; campaign; chamber; che; combei; communication; content; corpus; data; debate; deputies; dictionary; different; dimensions; documents; economic; elections; environment; european; expert; fact; farnè; fdi; february; figure; general; giannetti; government; highest; ideology; immigration; infrastructure; issue; italian; italy; journal; language; left; lega; leu; level; literature; local; m5s; maio; manifestos; march; matteo; media; meloni; messages; methods; model; non; norris; number; parties; party; pauwels; people; piùeuropa; policy; political; political communication; politicians; politics; populism; populist parties; positions; present; press; prevalence; previous; public; related; research; results; right; roberts; rooduijn; salvini; scholars; science; scores; section; senate; set; social; stm; study; survey; table; terms; text; time; tone; topic; tweets; twitter; una; university; use; wing; words; year cache: ips-136.pdf plain text: ips-136.txt item: #21 of 115 id: ips-137 author: Pedrazzani, Andrea; Zucchini, Francesco title: Ineffective changes for hard times. The 2017 reform of the Italian Senate’s Rule of Procedure and its effects date: 2020-11-09 words: 9474 flesch: 56 summary: In this regard, Grasso’s words seem to resonate with the opinion of observ- ers and even Senate officials, according to whom the reform would allow a huge number of bills to be examined by committees in a drafting or legislating capacity, thus increas- ing the volume of approved bills (Carboni and Magalotti 2018). Also, PER_INDEX=0.548 implies that the percentage of approved bills over the whole amount of bills in the Senate was almost 55% of the percentage of approved bills over the total amount of bills in the Cham- ber. keywords: actors; andrea; approval; article; assignment; bills; capacity; case; chamber; change; coalition; committee; constitutional; costs; data; december; decision; del; deputies; different; drafting; drafting capacity; efficiency; figure; final; floor; government; grasso; hard; house; ineffective; italian; italian senate; lawmaking; legislating; legislating capacity; legislature; legislature xviii; main; majority; making; members; new; new rules; number; opposition; orders; outcome; parliamentary; parties; party; pedrazzani; policy; political; possible; post; president; previous; procedure; process; productivity; quo; reform; reform legislature; reform senate; reporting capacity; revision; role; rules; scenario; senate; standing; status; steps; terms; time; university; xviii; zucchini cache: ips-137.pdf plain text: ips-137.txt item: #22 of 115 id: ips-138 author: Di Porto, Valerio title: Making Laws Fit for the Present Day: The Government of Change and the precariousness of choices during Italy’s Long Transition date: 2020-11-09 words: 7517 flesch: 43 summary: In the 12th legislature, which lasted two years, the only delegation with any ambition – initially only short-term – was present in the law ratifying the acts implementing the results of the so-called Uruguay Round (Law no. 747 of 29 December 1994). 42 of 8 May 2019, Ratification and Implementation of the Accord of Political Dialogue and Cooperation be- tween the European Union and its Member States and the Republic of Cuba made in Brussels on 12 December 2016; and Law no. 145 of 30 December 2018, Provisional Budget of State for the 2019 financial year and three-year budget for the period 2019-2021.6 keywords: 17th; 18th; 2018; 2019; article; bills; budget; budget law; case; chamber; code; committee; confidence; constitutional; conte; conte government; contract; council; court; days; december; decree; delegated; delegation; della; democratico; deputies; development; different; draft; economic; elections; electoral; enabling; end; european; febbraio; financial; fit; future; government; impact; initiatives; international; italian; law; laws; lega; legislation; legislature; line; majority; march; measures; members; minister; months; movement; nel; order; parliamentary; parties; partito; party; past; political; porto; present; president; prime; procedures; process; provisions; public; reform; republic; rivista; second; security; senate; shareholder; star; subject; term; time; urgent; use; valerio; vote; year cache: ips-138.pdf plain text: ips-138.txt item: #23 of 115 id: ips-14 author: Agosta, Antonio title: Pietro Grilli di Cortona, Faculty colleague date: 2017-12-03 words: 1152 flesch: 54 summary: I shared fifteen years teaching courses in Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science of the Roma Tre University with Pietro, and I was witness, albeit for a small part of his activity, to his constant and intense academic commitment and the mark it has made on me. I AGOSTA, Pietro Grilli di Cortona, Faculty colleague 4 Many times I asked myself, over the years, if Pietro had ever regretted wanting me in his Faculty, if I had been effective in his project to develop our subject area. keywords: absence; academic; cortona; faculty; grilli; italian; life; pietro; point; political; roma; science; scientific; september; tre; university; view; volume; years cache: ips-14.pdf plain text: ips-14.txt item: #24 of 115 id: ips-141 author: Costalli, Stefano title: Introduction to the Special Issue: Italy in Twenty-First Century International Politics date: 2020-10-27 words: 2054 flesch: 52 summary: In Libya this sort of syndrome has reduced Italy to an invisible player in a heavily populated theatre. Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Italy in Twenty-First Century International Politics’ 4 While considering different aspects of Italian foreign policy and evaluating Italy’s posi- tion in different dimensions of contemporary international politics, the articles of this special issue share a clear and important point. The main aim of these essays is not to advance a theoretical interpretation of Italian foreign policy, a task that has already been successfully achieved by more purely academic initiatives (e.g. Isernia and Longo 2017). keywords: ambiguous; articles; authors; bri; century; china; contemporary; costalli; countries; country; domestic; european; flows; foreign; global; great; international; international politics; issue; italian; italy; long; middle; order; partners; policy; political; politics; position; powers; role; special; states; stefano; system; world cache: ips-141.pdf plain text: ips-141.txt item: #25 of 115 id: ips-145 author: De Micheli, Chiara title: The Italian XVIII legislature: populism, law-making and procedures date: 2020-11-09 words: 9223 flesch: 51 summary: A lack of ministerial collaboration in issuing decree laws started to manifest itself in the preceding leg- islature but in the Conte I government it became routine and a governmental resource [Marchetti 2019]. Introduction he centrality that representative institutions still hold in the Italian political sys- tem is core to the relevance of this study in order to further explore the adjustment of the parliamentary system to the change of balance between political parties. keywords: agreement; analysis; anti; approval; article; assembly; bill; case; certain; chamber; change; characteristics; chiara; coalition; confidence; consensus; conte; context; council; decentralised; decision; decree; del; delegations; democracies; democracy; descriptive; different; efficiency; elections; electoral; electoral volatility; emanuele; empirical; european; executive; fact; following; fonti; forces; fragmentation; fragnelli; frequent; governability; government; groups; high; hypothesis; implementation; independent; index; issue; italian; italian political; italian xviii; law; laws; lega; legislation; legislature; level; long; m5s; majority; making; march; micheli; ministers; new; number; order; ordinary; osservatorio; parliament; parliament fragmentation; parliamentary; parties; party; point; policies; policy; political; political parties; political science; politicians; populist; president; press; previous; procedure; process; recent; reforms; relationship; representative; republic; science; seats; section; study; subject; subsystem; sulle; system; terms; time; university; use; variables; volatility; voters; way; xviii; xviii legislature; year cache: ips-145.pdf plain text: ips-145.txt item: #26 of 115 id: ips-147 author: Pansardi, Pamela; Pinto, Luca title: Candidate selection procedures and women's representation in Italy date: 2021-04-21 words: 7245 flesch: 49 summary: The influence of party candidate selection methods on candi- date diversity. Since candidate selection procedures, list ordering and safe-seat placement are in the hands of political parties, party gatekeeping (Norris and Lovenduski 1995; Kunovich and Paxton 2005; Pansardi and Vercesi 2017) is frequently called into question as one of the main explaining factors of the reproduction of gender differences in political representation. keywords: analysis; candidate selection; candidates; case; chances; cross; data; different; district; effect; elections; electoral; equality; exclusive; experience; factors; female; female candidates; figure; gender; hazan; impact; inclusive; index; italian; italy; kittilson; leadership; left; level; list; local; m5s; main; members; methods; models; national; open; order; pansardi; parties; party; political; politicians; politics; primaries; primary; procedures; process; quotas; rahat; representation; results; science; seddone; selection; selection procedures; studies; study; system; terms; university; venturino; virgilio; voters; vulnerability; women cache: ips-147.pdf plain text: ips-147.txt item: #27 of 115 id: ips-149 author: Piattoni, Simona title: Italian Political Science today: Has the profession changed in the last ten years? date: 2021-03-30 words: 5840 flesch: 36 summary: In other words, the diagnosis of the state of political science offered by Gabriel Almond (1988) – that political scientists now sit at separate tables and are incapable of, or uninterested in, talking to one another – could be applied to Italian political science as well, where a greater degree of specialization and internationalization has been acquired at the cost of a loss of general relevance and domestic debates. Introduction n this brief contribution I will analyze how Italian political science has adapted to the new opportunities that opened up following the university reform of 2010 (law 240/2010)1 and how it tackled the new challenges that derived from it. keywords: able; academic; articles; assessment; available; career; category; certain; communication; contribution; data; degree; departments; disciplines; education; facoltà; freedom; funds; gelmini; greater; habilitation; higher; impact; international; ips; issue; italian; italian political; italy; journals; knowledge; new; number; old; ones; phd; piattoni; political; political science; political scientists; politiche; politics; present; profession; programs; promotion; public; reform; regini; research; scholars; science; scientific; scientists; second; section; simona; social; society; special; standards; students; studies; study; system; teaching; time; today; universities; university cache: ips-149.pdf plain text: ips-149.txt item: #28 of 115 id: ips-15 author: Pisciotta, Barbara title: Comparative analysis in the scholarly contribution of Pietro Grilli di Cortona: A personal recollection of my mentor date: 2017-12-03 words: 2103 flesch: 42 summary: Comparative area analysis of the diachronic kind is instead employed for the rebirth of political parties in the countries of central and eastern Europe (Da uno a molti. Comparative analysis in the scholarly contribution of Pietro Grilli di Cortona. keywords: analysis; area; cases; change; collapse; comparative; comparative analysis; contribution; cortona; countries; crisis; democratic; diachronic; europe; factors; grilli; important; institutional; italian; nation; non; nondemocratic; personal; pietro; pisciotta; political; previous; processes; prof; regimes; relationship; scholarly; science; second; soviet; state; studies; terms; wave; world cache: ips-15.pdf plain text: ips-15.txt item: #29 of 115 id: ips-151 author: Capati, Andrea; Improta, Marco title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? The Approaches of the Conte Governments to the European Union date: 2021-07-19 words: 10766 flesch: 55 summary: Country Prime Minister Cabinet parties Eurosceptic in government Mainstream in government Austria Kurz Austrian People's Party The Greens ◉ Belgium Croo Party of Liberty and Progress Reformist Movement Christian Democratic and Flemish Greens Socialist Party Socialist Party Differently ◉ Cyprus Anastasiades Democratic Rally ◉ Denmark Frederiksen Social Democrats ◉ Finland Marin Social Democratic Party Centre Party Green League Left Alliance Swedish People's Party ◉ ◉ France Castex The Republic on the Move Democratic Movement Radical Movement Act Germany Merkel Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christian Social Union in Bavaria Social Democratic Party of Germany ◉ Greece Mitsotakis New Democracy ◉ Ireland Martin Republican Party United Ireland Green Alliance ◉ Italy Conte Five Star Movement Democratic Party Free and Equals Italy Alive ◉ ◉ Luxembourg Bettel Democratic Party Socialist Workers' Party The Greens ◉ Malta Abela Labour Party ◉ Netherlands Rutte People's Party for Freedom and Democracy Christian Democratic Appeal Democrats 66 Christian Union ◉ Portugal Costa Socialist Party ◉ Spain Sánchez Spanish Socialist Workers' Party We Can Communist Party of Spain United Left ◉ ◉ Sweden Löfven Social Democrats Green Party ◉ Sources: own elaboration of original data; Rooduijn (2019); 43.5 Leading party M5S M5S Number of ministers of the leading party 9 10 Governing formula Innovative Innovative Effective number of government parties 2.82 2.86 Seat share (%) 53.8 55 Pre-election coalition keywords: affairs; alliance; annual; anti; approach; article; authorities; available; balance; budgetary; budgetary policy; cabinet; capati; carrieri; centre; change; cleavage; coalition; commission; composition; conte; conte government; conte ii; contract; council; country; crisis; dbp; debt; deficit; del; democratic; dombrovskis; draft; economic; economy; effect; election; electoral; european; european commission; european semester; european union; europeanist; euroscepticism; fabbrini; finance; fiscal; formation; framework; gdp; gentiloni; government; gualtieri; hyde; ii government; improta; integration; issue; italian; italian government; italy; jekyll; journal; league; left; letter; m5s; mainstream; marks; member; minister; mitigation; moscovici; movement; national; new; office; opinion; parliament; parties; party; plan; policy; political; politics; previous; pro; programme; public; recommendations; research; revised; role; rules; salvini; science; second; semester; sgp; social; specific; states; structural; theory; time; transition; tria; union cache: ips-151.pdf plain text: ips-151.txt item: #30 of 115 id: ips-152 author: none title: Changing Politics: Government, Parliament and Parties in Italy at the Dawn of the 18th Legislature: Introduction to the Special Issue date: 2020-11-09 words: 3315 flesch: 41 summary: In particular, the authors analyse party manifestos through a dic- tionary approach to estimate the degree of populism of Italian parties and an unsupervised learning method to capture the policy content of Tweets. Undoubtedly, the functioning of Italian political institutions during the so-called Second Republic has not fulfilled the expectations of many. keywords: article; author; change; conte; continuity; data; elections; electoral; government; institutions; issue; italian; italian parliament; italian political; italy; law; legislature; legislature xviii; making; movement; new; number; parliament; parties; party; pedrazzani; political; populist; previous; process; reform; representative; rules; science; second; senate; special; special issue; star; system; terms; trust; xviii; zucchini cache: ips-152.pdf plain text: ips-152.txt item: #31 of 115 id: ips-153 author: Capano, Giliberto title: We did it well enough. Systemic reforms, changes in recruitment procedures, and the evolution of Italian political science date: 2021-02-03 words: 5713 flesch: 42 summary: But while there is enough convincing research on various dimensions of the evolution and reality of Italian political science, there is an analytical gap in grasping how the discipline has been reproducing itself and whether and how its foundational identity has been able to survive external challenges and changes. According to the comparative literature on higher education policy, two factors are specifically relevant to understand the evolution of Italian political science: systemic gov- ernance arrangements and the design of academic career structures. keywords: academic; associate; bologna; candidates; capano; career; changes; characteristics; community; competition; development; different; disciplinary; discipline; dynamics; education; evolution; foundational; giliberto; governance; higher; identity; institutional; internal; international; internationalisation; italian; italian political; italy; law; level; local; morlino; national; new; number; phd; policy; political; political science; political scientists; positions; practices; procedure; professor; programmes; qualification; recruitment; reform; relevant; research; rules; scholars; science; scientific; scientists; structure; system; systemic; terms; universities; university; university system cache: ips-153.pdf plain text: ips-153.txt item: #32 of 115 id: ips-156 author: Seddone, Antonella; Bobba, Giuliano title: Is something changing? Preliminary results about the impact of the COVID-19 emergency on the Italians attitudes towards the EU. date: 2021-05-05 words: 7245 flesch: 59 summary: On the one hand, when testing for diverse and possible changes in EU attitudes, the results do not appear robust enough, due to the limited number of cases. In this perspective, when policy problems or societal needs are transnational and require coordination at the European level, the EU institutions play a crucial role and EU citizens are likely to recognize their responsibility (Hobolt and Tilley, 2014). keywords: article; attitudes; bad; bellucci; bobba; change; citizens; consequences; conti; cotta; country; covid-19; crisis; data; dimension; economic; effect; elections; emergency; eu membership; european; euroscepticism; evaluation; figure; good; impact; improved; individual; information; institutions; integration; italian; italy; journal; level; literature; m5s; matters; measures; membership; months; national; negative; new; opinion; outlook; pandemic; particular; parties; party; perceptions; policy; political; politics; positive; project; prospective; public; question; research; respondents; results; review; risk; scale; science; second; seddone; studies; support; survey; table; trust; union; university; variable; wave; worsened cache: ips-156.pdf plain text: ips-156.txt item: #33 of 115 id: ips-158 author: Vicentini, Giulia; Pritoni, Andrea title: How and why do Italian Party Leaders survive in office or come to an end? date: 2021-07-19 words: 8812 flesch: 45 summary: Furthermore, the degree of approval that party leaders receive from their selectorate – even in the case of ‘coronations’ of a single candidate (Kenig 2008), i.e. with the absence of a formal opponent – is indicative of the extent to which they are in danger of being dis- missed in the near future (Ennser-Jedenastik and Muller2015). In turn, a contested LR (namely a race with more than one candidate running for the leadership) which is also com- petitive (as it ends with very close results between the first two candidates) is more likely to be divisive for the party, which may contribute to further enhancing internal factionalism (Ware 1979; Hazan and Rahat 2010;Wichowsky and Niebler2010).Thus, when LRs are very competitive, we assume that parties are very internally fragmented, and therefore the office of party leader is particularly at stake (H2a). keywords: 0.67,1; analysis; approval; berlusconi; big; candidate; case; centre; chair; change; coalition; combinations; comparative; competitive; conditions; consistency; cross; different; eds; electoral; end; ennser; fact; formal; government; inclusive; inclusiveness; incumbent; intermediate; internal; italian; italian party; jedenastik; kenig; large; leadership; leadership selection; left; likely; lrs; membership; national; new; office; open; opposition; outcome; oxford; parties; party; party leader; party leadership; pilet; political; politics; prc; press; primaries; pritoni; qca; qualitative; resignation; right; selection; single; small; solution; studies; study; sufficient; support; survival; system; table; tenure; terms; theoretical; university; vicentini; victory; vote; years cache: ips-158.pdf plain text: ips-158.txt item: #34 of 115 id: ips-159 author: Bosco, Anna; Verney, Susannah title: Editing South European Society and Politics: A Labour of Love: An interview with Anna Bosco and Susannah Verney date: 2021-07-19 words: 3025 flesch: 60 summary: Thus, a central goal of SESP has been to put Southern Europe on the map of important academic debates. So, we think SESP articles are being read, not because of where they are published but because colleagues find the topics interesting and relevant to the profession. keywords: articles; authors; bosco; change; colleagues; countries; crisis; editorial; editors; european; good; important; interview; issues; italian; italy; journal; new; political; politics; profession; regime; region; research; scholars; science; sesp; social; society; south; south european; southern; special; studies; success; susannah; topics; verney; work; years cache: ips-159.pdf plain text: ips-159.txt item: #35 of 115 id: ips-16 author: Morlino, Leonardo title: Why do transitions to democracy fail? A tribute to Pietro Grilli di Cortona date: 2018-03-01 words: 2566 flesch: 55 summary: Second, a number of authors made an additional step by trying to find recurring pat- terns of successful transitions. Obstacles to successful transitions With this in mind we can now ask what are the factors, or even the actors, which have pre- vented a successful transition to democracy by maintaining a non-democratic regime, the previous or a different one,3 or by stalemating it in a hybrid situation? keywords: absence; actors; basis; cases; change; cortona; democracy; democratic; elite; failure; grilli; international; issue; key; mcfaul; morlino; non; number; obstacles; people; perspective; process; question; related; reply; research; set; specific; stoner; successful; theoretical; transitions; university; work; years cache: ips-16.pdf plain text: ips-16.txt item: #36 of 115 id: ips-160 author: Bull, Martin title: Journal Editing and the Italian Political Science Review: An interview with Martin J. Bull date: 2021-07-19 words: 2904 flesch: 58 summary: First, despite the predominance of league tables for almost everything in our pro- fessional lives, journals do not simply have goals to rise in league tables. There is a very wide range of journals in any disciplinary area, and each has its own sub- disciplinary orientation, identity, specific mission, and its own ‘community’ of scholars to which it appeals. keywords: area; articles; authors; bull; editing; editorial; editors; european; high; identity; interview; ipsr; italian; italian political; journal; martin; methods; paper; period; political; political science; politics; quality; referees; research; review; science; success; terms; time cache: ips-160.pdf plain text: ips-160.txt item: #37 of 115 id: ips-161 author: Newell, James title: Contemporary Italian Politics: Italy from abroad: An interview with James Newell date: 2021-07-19 words: 2754 flesch: 47 summary: Contemporary Italian Politics began life in 2009 as the twice- yearly Bulletin of Italian Politics, which I co-founded with Maurizio Carbone. A contribution to [THE PROFESSION] series Contemporary Italian Politics: Italy from abroad An interview with James Newell Introduction James Newell is an adjunct professor at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo and former Professor of Politics at the University of Salford, UK. keywords: academic; analysis; articles; authors; bulletin; contemporary; contemporary italian; developments; english; events; group; history; interview; issue; italian; italian politics; italy; james; journal; language; life; newell; number; order; political; politics; profession; publication; recent; research; science; studies; university; year cache: ips-161.pdf plain text: ips-161.txt item: #38 of 115 id: ips-164 author: Ceron, Matilde; Zarra, Antonella title: Women’s substantive representation in the Covid-19 reconstruction. The case of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan date: 2021-10-31 words: 11081 flesch: 48 summary: Nevertheless, the hypothesis of a gender gap within the parliamentary debate on the NRRP is indeed supported: across party lines a higher pro- portion of women MPs included within the corpus speak in support of gender parity compared to the proportion of men. Campaigns of women’s interest groups over gender equality in the NRRP may indeed further compound the contribution of women policy actors to advo- cating for parity within parliamentary debates. keywords: analysis; areas; case; centre; ceron; childcare; coding; concerns; context; corpus; country; covid-19; crisis; debate; decision; del; della; differences; divide; draghi; early; economic; employment; empowerment; equality; european; evidence; extent; fdi; figure; final; gap; gender; gender divide; gender equality; gender parity; gendered; giusto; government; groups; half; hand; impact; interest; interest groups; issues; italian; italy; journal; key; lega; level; m5s; mainstreaming; making; measures; mezzo; mps; national; nazionale; ngeu; nrrp; number; overall; pandemic; parity; parliamentary; parliaments; parties; piano; plan; policies; policy; political; politicians; politics; priorities; process; proportion; proposals; public; reconstruction; recovery; reference; related; relevant; relevant issues; relevant speeches; representation; research; resilienza; result; ripresa; role; saliency; science; social; specific; speeches; substantive; substantive representation; task; terms; themes; violence; women; women mps; work; wängnerud; zarra cache: ips-164.pdf plain text: ips-164.txt item: #39 of 115 id: ips-165 author: Landini, Irene title: Beyond welfare chauvinism? Populist radical right parties’ social policies and the exclusion of migrants from national welfare in Italy date: 2021-10-31 words: 11505 flesch: 51 summary: Secondly, the article complements former re- search specifically focused on the League’s imprint on Italian welfare policy. Based on these considerations, I build my second hypothesis: IRENE LANDINI 107 H2: when holding a governmental position, PRRPs prefer to exploit the WP frame (rather than WC) to promote restrictive social policy measures against im- migrants. keywords: abs; access; action; agenda; analysis; article; attitude; benefit; case; categories; chauvinism; citizens; citizenship; clear; control; country; criteria; criterion; data; deputies; deservingness; different; dimension; economic; electoral; entitlement; european; extent; frames; government; ibid; identity; ideological; income; introduction; irene; italian; italy; jessoula; landini; law; league; march; measures; migrants; minimum; natili; national; need; new; non; order; parliamentary; parties; party; people; policies; policy; political; politicians; populist; pos; position; present; previous; prrps; qualitative; radical; rathgeb; rdc; reciprocity; reforms; regard; relevant; research; restrictive; rhetorical; right; salvini; second; social; social policy; specific; speeches; state; studies; topic; view; welfare; welfare chauvinism cache: ips-165.pdf plain text: ips-165.txt item: #40 of 115 id: ips-167 author: Mancosu, Moreno; Seddone, Antonella; Bobba, Giuliano; Vegetti, Federico title: “In conspiracies we trust”: interpersonal/institutional trust and beliefs in conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic date: 2021-10-31 words: 7069 flesch: 51 summary: If, however, it is straightforward to expect that people who present low levels of institutional trust might present high levels of conspiracism (due to the consistency of the narratives that drive the two attitudes), no research has so far investigated the mechanism behind the relationship between interpersonal trust and beliefs in conspiracy theories. In particular, at higher levels of pandemic stress, the correlation between interpersonal trust and conspiracy is greater, while the opposite is true for the relationship with institutional trust. keywords: anxiety; associations; beliefs; bobba; concepts; consequences; conspiracism; conspiracy; conspiracy theories; coronavirus; correlation; covid-19; crisis; data; different; distrust; education; effect; et al; evidence; hand; high; higher; individual; infected; institutional; institutional trust; interpersonal; interpersonal trust; italian; italy; levels; likelihood; likely; literature; low; mancosu; means; mechanism; models; negative; new; pandemic; pandemic stress; people; political; possible; present; psychological; psychology; related; relationship; research; scale; science; seddone; social; social trust; stress; theories; theory; trust; turin; uncertainty; university; variables; vegetti; wave; way cache: ips-167.pdf plain text: ips-167.txt item: #41 of 115 id: ips-168 author: Memoli, Vincenzo; Di Pastena, Maria Pina title: Migrants, religion, and politics: an imperfect combination. The strange case of the Italians in times of migration date: 2021-10-31 words: 9069 flesch: 58 summary: As hypothesized, not all those who are religious perceive immigrants positively. In contrast, non-religious people - namely those who MEMOLI and DI PASTENA 147 neither attend religious services nor describe themselves as Catholics - show the most positive attitudes toward immigration’. keywords: activism; activities; age; american; answers; anti; area; attitudes; beta; big; case; catholics; christian; church; city; countries; country; cultural; different; economic; education; effects; elaboration; ethnic; european; figure; foreigners; group; high; higher; hypotheses; immigrants; immigration; impact; index; insecurity; italian; italy; journal; landings; league; left; lega; level; lower; measures; membership; memoli; missing; model; national; negative; new; non; party; pastena; people; perceive; perception; policies; political; politics; populist; practising; public; question; relationship; religion; religiosity; religious; research; results; review; right; role; runs; science; secondary; semyonov; sentiment; services; social; source; studies; study; survey; threat; trend; trust; university; upper; values; variable; vote; years cache: ips-168.pdf plain text: ips-168.txt item: #42 of 115 id: ips-17 author: Lanzalaco, Luca title: Democracies in Transition: Political change in democratic regimes date: 2018-03-01 words: 2173 flesch: 53 summary: The two contributions of Pietro Grilli on democratic transitions are relatively short, less that two hundred pages on the whole. The first conceptual analogy concerns the concept of consolidation, that as we know is well rooted in Linz, Stepan and Morlino’s studies of democratic transitions. keywords: analysis; book; case; change; consolidation; cortona; crisis; democracies; democracy; democratic; electoral; form; grilli; institutional; italian; lanzalaco; model; new; ones; parties; pietro; political; process; regimes; second; study; system; theory; transitions; type cache: ips-17.pdf plain text: ips-17.txt item: #43 of 115 id: ips-170 author: Bello, Valeria title: The Spiral of Prejudice and the Securitization of Migration: The Complexity of Small Changes in the Italian Migration Networked Governance date: 2021-10-31 words: 8776 flesch: 48 summary: An analysis of Italian migration policies shows how even slightly different changes in migration policies, and more generally in a country’s migration governance, can encom- pass crucial differences for the security of both migrants and the general population. This work claims that small changes in Italian migration policies can crucially affect more general Italian mi- gration governance, which happens not only to be exercised through top-down directives, but also through practices and narratives (Bello 2020b; Panebianco 2020; Léonard and Kaunert 2020b), which heighten the initial effects of migration policies. keywords: 2010; 2015; 2019; 2020b; actors; analysis; bello; borders; bossi; case; category; centres; certain; changes; citizenship; consequence; countries; country; creation; crime; crossing; crucial; decree; della; development; different; discriminatory; eds; european; far; fini; governance; governments; human; huysmans; insecurities; interior; international; international migration; irregular; issue; italian; italian migration; italy; journal; jus; kaunert; law; life; london; léonard; migrants; migration; migration governance; migration policies; mobility; moves; narratives; negative; networked; networked governance; new; nexus; persons; phenomenon; physical; policies; policy; political; politics; practices; prejudice; process; reception; renzi; rights; role; routledge; salvini; securitization; security; similar; small; social; spiralling; state; studies; study; valeria; ways; york cache: ips-170.pdf plain text: ips-170.txt item: #44 of 115 id: ips-172 author: Crulli, Mirko title: Scientists versus the people: science, anti-science and counter-science in Italian populist communication before and during the pandemic date: 2022-08-05 words: 10390 flesch: 54 summary: The research attempts to answer these questions through a content analysis of populist tweets (N=1533). We focus on a relevant case study, Italy, which makes it possible to distinguish between different ‘types’ of populist parties, in terms of both ideology and strategical ‘constraints’. keywords: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; actors; analysis; anti; api; attacks; author; cabinet; case; communication; conte; coronavirus; counter; countersciences; counterscientists; covid; covid-19; crisis; crulli; data; debate; different; direct; doi; draghi; elaboration; elements; elite; end; enemies; european; experts; experts pre; fdi; figure; government; grillo; health; illegitimate; intellectualism; italian; italy; journal; knowledge; leader; league; lega; m5s; mainstream; mainstream experts; mainstream science; maio; medicine; meloni; mirko; mudde; negative; new; outbreak; pandemic; pandemic crisis; parties; party; people; period; phase; political; politics; populism; populist parties; populist radical; populist tweets; populists; post; pre; press; public; radical; references; research; right; salvini; science; scientific; scientists; scientists mainstream; social; source; tweets; twitter; university; use; wave; year; yes cache: ips-172.pdf plain text: ips-172.txt item: #45 of 115 id: ips-173 author: Improta, Marco title: Inside Technocracy: Features and Trajectories of Technocratic Ministers in Italy (1948-2021) date: 2022-11-09 words: 9956 flesch: 42 summary: This study aims to contribute to this flourishing research agenda by examining the features of Italian technocratic ministers, the underpinnings of their government involvement, and the trajectories they have followed after ruling responsibility from 1948 to 2021. Recently, the formation of technocratic governments in Italy has attracted growing scholarly interest. keywords: 1995; 2013; 2019; 2020; activities; affairs; affiliation; allocation; amato; antonio; appointments; background; berlusconi; budget; cabinet; caramani; career; cases; ciampi; civil; conte; control; core; cotta; democracies; dini; draghi; economic; economist; economy; electoral; emanuele; environment; european; executive; experience; expertise; experts; figures; finance; foreign; formation; franco; gender; giovanni; giuliano; government; health; improta; inside; interior; involvement; italian; italy; journal; justice; key; leadership; manager; mario; medical; ministerial; ministers; ministry; monti; non; office; official; paolo; parliamentary; participation; particular; parties; partisan; party; paths; patterns; period; personnel; perspective; planning; policy; political; political affiliation; politics; portfolio; positions; posts; presence; president; prime; prodi; professional; professor; public; research; responsibility; role; ruling; science; second; share; source; specific; study; system; table; technocracy; technocratic; technocratic ministers; time; trade; trajectories; treasury; university; valbruzzi; verzichelli; website; years cache: ips-173.pdf plain text: ips-173.txt item: #46 of 115 id: ips-175 author: Campus, Donatella; Mazzoni, Marco title: Celebrity politics and changing performances over time. The case of Italian populist leaders date: 2022-08-05 words: 10492 flesch: 52 summary: In this article we will refer to both categories simply as ‘celebrity leaders’. More cross-countries analyses are necessary to fully explain the emergence of some types of celebrity leaders. keywords: analysis; antonio; april; article; aspects; berlusconi; biorcio; birth; book; bossi; broadcast; campus; case; ceccarelli; celebrities; celebrity; celebrity politics; cheles; choice; citizens; common; communication; contemporary; country; culture; dei; della; different; direct; eds; education; entertainment; everyday; example; fans; feltrinelli; followers; giorgia; goal; gossip; grillo; high; horizontal; image; important; instance; intimization; invano; italian; italy; journalists; july; language; leaders; leadership; league; lega; life; matteo; mazzoleni; mazzoni; media; meloni; milano; model; moffitt; movement; new; nord; northern; observers; online; ordinary; parties; party; people; performances; personal; pietro; place; political; politicians; politics; popular; popularization; populist; populist leaders; potere; press; private; professional; public; questi; relationship; reportage; research; role; routledge; salvini; second; shows; silvio; social; sono; strategies; street; studies; style; superstar; table; television; time; university; use; values; way; wood; years cache: ips-175.pdf plain text: ips-175.txt item: #47 of 115 id: ips-177 author: Criscitiello, Annarita title: The Italian premiership after Berlusconi: A limited legacy
 date: 2022-08-05 words: 8922 flesch: 45 summary: In the Italian political system, after a 20-year bipolar phase that rewarded (and legit- imized) the leader of the winning coalition with the position of prime minister, the arenas of party leadership and communicative-electoral strategies now suffer from an extremely fragmented party system and an increasingly volatile and demotivated electorate, while in the arena of executive activity the process of personalization, just as in all contempo- rary democracies, has meant that the governments formed in Italy in the new millennium have exhibited a clear monocratic tendency1 both in terms of organization and in decision-making processes (Musella 2022). After Renzi’s resignation, due to the failure of the December 2016 constitutional ref- erendum, his foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni became prime minister, leaving the former team of ministers essentially unchanged, with 12 out of 18 ministers remaining the same. keywords: administrative; annarita; anti; arena; bari; berlusconi; calise; changes; chief; communication; consiglio; conte; control; council; criscitiello; crisis; decrees; dei; del; democratic; direct; dpcms; draghi; economic; european; executive; experience; gentiloni; giuseppe; government; head; important; institutional; italian; italy; laterza; leadership; legacy; letta; making; management; mario; minister; ministerial; ministri; monocratic; monti; mulino; musella; new; non; office; organizational; pandemic; parties; partisan; party; people; personal; personalization; policy; political; politics; populist; power; premier; premiership; presidency; presidential; press; prime; prime minister; process; renzi; republic; resources; rhetoric; role; roma; second; significant; staff; strategy; strengthening; structures; style; system; time; university; vol; years cache: ips-177.pdf plain text: ips-177.txt item: #48 of 115 id: ips-179 author: Fittipaldi, Raffaella; Musella, Fortunato title: Duration and durability of the Italian Governments: an Old Paradox Revisited date: 2023-02-09 words: 8222 flesch: 56 summary: On Italian party government see also (Pasquino 1987). Conse- quently, Italian party government appears as a feature that belongs more to the past than to the present and the future of the country. keywords: analysis; average; berlusconi; blondel; bologna; cabinet; calise; cambridge; career; case; centre; change; class; comparative; cotta; crisis; dataset; days; democracies; democracy; dewan; dowding; durability; duration; eds; elite; end; european; executive; factors; fittipaldi; formation; government; greater; hand; index; individual; instability; italian; italian ministers; italian political; italy; journal; laver; leaders; london; main; mandate; ministerial; ministerial duration; ministers; monocratic; mulino; musella; new; non; number; office; oxford; parliamentary; parties; partisan; party; party government; pasquino; past; personalisation; point; political; political parties; politics; press; rate; recent; republic; review; role; rullo; science; second; selection; short; single; society; source; stable; strøm; studies; system; technocratic; time; total; type; university; valbruzzi; verzichelli; western; years cache: ips-179.pdf plain text: ips-179.txt item: #49 of 115 id: ips-18 author: Lanza, Orazio title: When Political Science and History meet: 'Legacies of the Past and Democracy' in Pietro Grilli di Cortona's research date: 2018-03-01 words: 4322 flesch: 44 summary: When Political Science and History meet. ‘Legacies of the Past and Democracy’ in Pietro Grilli di Cortona’s Research Orazio Lanza UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA he birth of a Standing Group on ‘History and Political Science’ was only approved and formalized on 5 June, 2015 during the last SISP Executive Board meeting, chaired by Pietro Grilli di Cortona. keywords: actors; addition; analysis; approaches; attention; authoritarian; behavioral; comparative; cortona; countries; dahl; democracies; democracy; democratic; democratization; di cortona; difficult; eds; european; events; example; grilli; grilli di; historical; history; important; influence; institutions; issue; italy; lanza; legacies; memory; morlino; mulino; new; norms; organizations; particular; pasquino; past; pietro; pietro grilli; political; political science; politics; press; processes; regime; research; role; sartori; science; second; social; studies; subject; time; transitional; university; work; élites cache: ips-18.pdf plain text: ips-18.txt item: #50 of 115 id: ips-181 author: Maritato, Chiara; Ince-Beqo, Gül title: Diaspora governance in times of COVID-19: The case of Turkish Diyanet in Italy date: 2023-03-23 words: 9024 flesch: 49 summary: The lockdown measures in Italy and the travel restrictions worldwide also had a strong impact on Turkish diaspora communities which experienced a forced cut-off from families and relatives living abroad. The anal- ysis draws on interviews with Diyanet religious officers sent from Ankara to serve the Diyanet’s branches (DITIB) in different Italian cities and with the religious attaché employed in the Turkish Consulate in Milan who supervises them. keywords: abroad; activities; actors; akp; analysis; associations; attaché; belonging; beqo; branches; building; care; case; centers; children; citizens; communities; community; como; context; countries; country; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; cultural; diaspora; diaspora communities; diaspora governance; diasporic; different; ditib; diyanet; economic; ethnic; european; family; figure; framework; germany; governance; home; imams; institutions; international; islam; islamic; italian; italy; journal; life; link; literature; local; lockdown; maritato; measures; migrants; migration; milan; moral; mosques; muslim; new; number; officers; online; pandemic; people; place; policies; policy; political; politics; preachers; presence; press; relations; relationship; religion; religious; religious officers; role; scholars; seminars; sense; services; social; space; state; studies; support; times; transnational; turkey; turkish; turkish diaspora; turkish state; university; venice; women cache: ips-181.pdf plain text: ips-181.txt item: #51 of 115 id: ips-185 author: Amadio Vicerè, Maria Giulia; Angelucci, Davide title: Disconnected? Public Opinion, Interest Groups, and Political Elites during the Migration Crisis date: 2023-04-10 words: 8704 flesch: 53 summary: Public Opinion, Economic Elites, and Political Parties during the Migration Crisis Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré* EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, FLORENCE Davide Angelucci* LUISS GUIDO CARLI UNIVERSITY, ROME Abstract To do so, it derives hypotheses from the scholarly literature on party responsiveness and tests them on survey data collected in 2016 and 2017 from among voters, political parties, and economic elites in 10 different EU member states. keywords: amadio; american; analysis; angelucci; article; businesspeople; changes; citizens; common; congruence; countries; country; crisis; dataset; democracy; democratic; different; economic; economic elites; elections; electoral; elites; european; fact; government; groups; immigration; interest; international; issue; journal; left; level; likely; mair; mass; member; model; opinion; opposition; parties; party; perception; period; policy; policy positions; policy preferences; political; political parties; politics; positions; preferences; press; public; public opinion; relationship; relevant; representation; research; responsiveness; results; right; science; societal; states; studies; survey; threat; time; university; variable; variations; viceré; voters; waves cache: ips-185.pdf plain text: ips-185.txt item: #52 of 115 id: ips-187 author: Di Mascio, Fabrizio; Natalini, Alessandro; Profeti, Stefania title: Administrative reform under mutating populism in office: Insights from Italy (2018-2022) date: 2023-07-04 words: 8111 flesch: 38 summary: This paper tracks the dynamics of administrative reform across two areas (civil service, simplification) in Italy, focusing on the XVIII parliamentary term, characterized by the presence of populist parties in three different coalition governments (Conte I, Conte II, Draghi). After a decade of EU-led austerity, the shift of EU economic governance was expected to support and enable administrative reform at the national level. keywords: actions; administrative; administrative reform; administrative simplification; agenda; agile; approach; areas; bauer; brunetta; bureaucracy; cabinets; case; change; citizens; civil; coalition; conte; conte ii; context; di mascio; different; digital; draghi; draghi government; emphasis; european; fsm; governance; government; hand; ii government; implementation; italian; italy; key; lack; law; level; long; management; marked; mascio; measures; minister; ministerial; modernization; mutating; natalini; new; new public; npm; office; ongaro; order; pandemic; parliamentary; particular; parties; party; peters; pierre; plan; policies; policy; political; politicians; populist; populist parties; power; profeti; public; public administration; public sector; reform; research; resources; review; rhetoric; scenario; section; sector; senior; servants; service; shift; simplification; state; system; term; trade; unions; university; working; xviii cache: ips-187.pdf plain text: ips-187.txt item: #53 of 115 id: ips-19 author: Cama, Giampiero title: State building and nationalism: the lesson of Pietro Grilli di Cortona date: 2017-12-15 words: 2319 flesch: 41 summary: In this regard Pietro under- lines the timing of state building along with the strength and precocity of nation building; and the type of relationship between centre and periphery. The conceptual and theoretical framework Before illustrating the theoretical framework, it should be specified that there are two types of nationalism: state nationalism (or nationalism of majorities) and nationalism of minorities. keywords: analysis; approach; book; building; cases; complex; conceptual; conflicts; countries; democracy; democratisation; different; ethnic; european; grilli; hand; international; intervener; issue; linguistic; mobilisation; model; nationalism; nationalistic; nations; peculiar; pietro; political; process; regard; set; state; theoretical; variables; world cache: ips-19.pdf plain text: ips-19.txt item: #54 of 115 id: ips-191 author: Pinto, Luca title: Party system change between elections: Evidence from the 18th Italian legislature date: 2023-07-04 words: 8481 flesch: 56 summary: Party system change at the legislative level 18 Volpi 2021, 2022) and more generally for party systems and party system change be- tween elections (Mershon and Shvetsova 2008, 2013, 2014). Contact Author: Luca Pinto E-mail address: luca.pinto@unibo.it Party system change at the legislative level: evidence from the 18th Italian legislature Luca Pinto UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA Abstract Party systems and party system change have long been one of the most studied topics within the comparative politics literature, yet most work in this field focuses on changes that occur between elections, neglecting the possibility that parties and party systems may reconfigure during the inter-election period. keywords: 18th; analysis; bértoa; casal; chamber; changes; chiaramonte; competition; data; day; deputies; elections; electoral; emanuele; europe; evolution; executive; government; group; index; indicators; individual; institutionalisation; inter; italian; italy; journal; league; legislative party; legislature; level; literature; m5s; main; mair; mershon; mixed; mps; new; number; open; panel; paper; parliamentary; parliamentary party; parties; party; party competition; party politics; party switching; party system; patterns; percent; percentage; period; phenomenon; policy; political; politics; power; science; seats; second; senate; structure; switching; system change; systems; time; volatility; work cache: ips-191.pdf plain text: ips-191.txt item: #55 of 115 id: ips-192 author: Pedrazzani, Andrea; Vercesi, Michelangelo title: Ministerial Comebacks. Explaining Reselection and Promotion of Cabinet Members in Italy date: 2023-03-09 words: 9966 flesch: 58 summary: Discussion and Conclusion In this article, we investigated the extent to which Italian political parties tend to reselect the same ministers across different political executives. 4 One should notice that, as long as party organizations are strong, political parties have – through their leaders – full control of ministerial selection. keywords: 18th; 2013; age; alexiadou; analysis; appointments; article; berlusconi; blondel; cabinet; cabinet ministers; career; case; center; coalition; comebacks; consecutive; conte; cotta; democracies; dependent; different; doi; dowding; draghi; eds; elections; european; executive; experience; factors; figure; gender; government; hypotheses; ii cabinet; individual; italian; italy; journal; leaders; league; left; legislative; likely; long; m5s; macmillan; members; ministerial; ministers; ministry; model; müller; new; new cabinet; non; number; office; oxford; parliamentary; particular; parties; partisan; party; patterns; pdl; pedrazzani; performance; period; personnel; policy; political; politics; portfolio; positions; posts; power; press; prestigious; previous; prime; promotion; regard; republic; research; reselection; science; second; significant; stability; studies; system; team; technocratic; term; time; university; variable; vercesi; verzichelli; women cache: ips-192.pdf plain text: ips-192.txt item: #56 of 115 id: ips-193 author: Di Quirico, Roberto title: Economic reform strategies and recovery policies in Italy from Conte to Draghi date: 2023-07-04 words: 8591 flesch: 50 summary: D Economic reform strategies and recovery policies in Italy from Conte to Draghi 106 All three governments planned and tried to implement economic recovery policies. Thus, the interaction of domestic and European activities and multi- level cooperation became crucial for Italian recovery, notwithstanding the controversial attitude of some of the main parties in power towards European integra- tion and EU economic governance. keywords: aims; anti; attention; budget; change; colao; colao plan; consequences; conte; conte government; conte ii; conte pnrr; contract; core; crisis; crucial; debt; december; decline; different; documents; draft; draghi; draghi government; draghi pnrr; economic; economic decline; economic policy; economic recovery; economic reform; economy; emu; energy; eu economic; european; eurozone; financial; fiscal; framework; funds; governance; government; green; growth; ii government; impact; implementation; industrial; infrastructures; issue; italian; italian decline; italian economic; italian government; italian recovery; italy; later; lega; long; m5s; main; measures; member; need; new; pandemic; parties; piano; plan; pnrr; policy; political; populist; post; power; previous; problems; programme; proposals; public; quirico; recovery; recovery policies; recovery strategies; reform; resilienza; ripresa; rules; specific; stability; states; strategies; strategy; support; system; term; term recovery; war cache: ips-193.pdf plain text: ips-193.txt item: #57 of 115 id: ips-195 author: Maggini, Nicola; Vezzoni, Cristiano title: The Italian space of electoral competition in pandemic times date: 2023-07-04 words: 8818 flesch: 53 summary: Results show that regardless of the period analysed, party competition occurs mainly within the right, whose party electorates strongly overlap, whereas more barriers exist among party electorates of the opposite camp. But, beyond considerations based on vote intentions or electoral results, to what extent are these speculations consistent with the actual space of electoral competition among main Italian parties? keywords: 2018; analysis; answer; area; article; available; azione; centre; choice; clear; coalition; competition; competition space; configuration; conte; covid-19; cut; data; der; diagram; draghi; election; electoral; electoral competition; electoral potential; electorates; fact; fdi; figure; general; general election; government; high; intention; italian; italian parties; italian space; italy; left; lega; level; m5s; maggini; main; main italian; meloni; national; pandemic; particular; parties; party; party competition; past; political; political space; polls; potential; potential voters; previous; propensity; ptvs; ptv≥6; question; respondents; response; results; right; right parties; share; significant; source; space; spring; study; time; use; van; venn; vezzoni; vote; voters; voting; wave; wing cache: ips-195.pdf plain text: ips-195.txt item: #58 of 115 id: ips-196 author: Guardiancich, Igor; Madama, Ilaria; Natili, Marcello title: The Italian welfare reform trajectory in turbulent times: Income support, family and pension policy during the XVIII parliamentary term date: 2023-07-04 words: 7907 flesch: 44 summary: Conclusions and discussion In this article, we analysed the policy trajectory of the Italian welfare state during the tur- bulent XVIII parliamentary term, through a careful investigation of social policy reforms in three crucial policy fields: family, pensions, labour market and anti-poverty policies. GUARDIANCICH, MADAMA and NATILI 77 conflicts highlighted above, it becomes clear how pensions, which traditionally absorbed the vast majority of Italian social policy resources, have a limited potential to be either retrenched or significantly expanded as institutional change may occur only ‘at the mar- gin’ (Myles and Pierson 2001), vis-à-vis social assistance and family policies. keywords: age; anti; areas; auu; benefits; budget; cent; changes; childcare; children; citizenship; coalition; constraints; conte; coverage; covid-19; crisis; different; distributive; draghi; early; electoral; emergency; employees; employment; european; families; family; ferrera; fields; functional; gori; government; guardiancich; important; inclusion; income; introduction; italian; italian welfare; italy; jessoula; labour; labour market; law; leave; lega; legislature; long; low; m5s; madama; main; major; market; measures; minimum; model; months; natili; national; new; nrrp; order; overall; oxford; parliamentary; particular; path; pension; plan; policies; policy; political; politics; poor; poverty; previous; protection; public; quota; rdc; recalibration; reddito; reforms; rei; resources; retirement; saraceno; scheme; second; services; short; social; social policy; state; structural; support; system; term; times; trajectory; turbulent; university; welfare; workers; xviii; years; yellow cache: ips-196.pdf plain text: ips-196.txt item: #59 of 115 id: ips-20 author: Chiarini, Rosalba title: The study of change and institutional persistence in ‘Rivoluzioni e Burocrazie’ by Pietro Grilli di Cortona date: 2018-03-08 words: 2337 flesch: 38 summary: Grilli’s comparative analysis of revolutionary bureaucracies goes on to examine these dimensions, given his stated aim to “formulate generalizations about the relations between, on the one hand, the nature of revolutionary change, the characteristics of political mobilization and the type and amount of violence produced; and, on the other, the qualitative and quantitative features of the bureaucracies that emerge (and/or partially survive) in the revolution” (Grilli di Cortona 1991, 29). In the first dimension a distinction is made between political revolutions, which simply transform the political organization of a State, and social revolutions, which over- throw both the political and social organization and entail a broader and deeper change. keywords: administrative; analysis; bologna; bureaucracies; bureaucracy; burocrazie; case; change; communist; continuity; cortona; di cortona; elements; great; grilli; grilli di; institutions; mobilization; mulino; new; old; party; persistence; pietro; political; power; processes; regime; revolutionary; revolutions; rivoluzioni; role; roma; science; social; state; structures; study; university cache: ips-20.pdf plain text: ips-20.txt item: #60 of 115 id: ips-209 author: Piattoni, Simona; Valbruzzi, Marco title: Beyond Italian Exceptionalism? The ‘Critical’ Eighteenth Legislature date: 2023-07-04 words: 7782 flesch: 49 summary: During this period, Italy experienced a certain process of bipolarization, but the brittleness of Italian governments was far from over. The second lesson is institutional in nature and concerns, precisely, the functioning and quality of Italian political institutions. keywords: 1990s; anti; article; attempt; bologna; capable; case; coalitions; come; complex; conte; cotta; crisis; decision; del; democracies; democracy; democratic; different; draghi; d’alimonte; economic; eds; eighteenth; eighteenth legislature; electoral; european; exceptionalism; external; factors; future; governments; greater; hand; head; history; ignazi; instability; institutional; international; introduction; issue; italian; italian exceptionalism; italian political; italy; journal; leadership; lega; legacy; legislature; level; london; long; making; mario; mascio; mulino; new; nord; normalization; oxford; pandemic; parliamentary; parties; party; party system; period; piattoni; policies; policy; political; political system; politics; populist; power; press; princeton; process; public; reforms; republic; roma; science; second; significant; state; structural; supranational; system; technocratic; term; times; university; valbruzzi; vassallo; verzichelli; voters; welfare; western cache: ips-209.pdf plain text: ips-209.txt item: #61 of 115 id: ips-21 author: Castaldo, Antonino; Germano, Luca title: Parties and party systems in Pietro Grilli di Cortona's research date: 2018-03-09 words: 2677 flesch: 52 summary: In terms of impact on party systems, Pietro identifies the cases where nationalist parties are concentrated in a specific region as the ones with more chances to become relevant at the systemic level. Finally, in the third situation, nationalist parties may represent a minority in the region, limiting the differences between party systems at the local and national levels. keywords: analysis; bologna; case; cleavages; cortona; countries; democracy; democratic; di cortona; eastern; eds; european; grilli; grilli di; italian; key; lanza; level; main; mulino; nationalist; new; parties; partiti; party; party systems; pietro; political; regard; regime; relevant; research; second; specific; state; systems; transition cache: ips-21.pdf plain text: ips-21.txt item: #62 of 115 id: ips-22 author: Ollier, María Matilde; Iazzetta, Osvaldo; Quiroga, Hugo title: Pietro Grilli di Cortona and Argentina date: 2018-03-09 words: 911 flesch: 55 summary: Pietro Grilli di Cortona and Argentina María Matilde Ollier UNIVERSITY OF SAN MARTÍN Osvaldo Iazzetta Hugo Quiroga UNIVERSITY OF ROSARIO ietro Grilli di Cortona shared with us a desire for understanding the challenges faced by contemporary democracy across national borders. P OLLIER, IAZZETTA and QUIROGA, Pietro Grilli di Cortona and Argentina 44 identifies the main sources of unrest hurting contemporary democracy, and he notices that, rather than a crisis, a transformation is taking place which will gradually and sys- tematically redirect it towards a new dimension for its liberal features. keywords: article; book; challenges; contemporary; cortona; crisis; democracy; democratic; grilli; italian; pietro; political; roma; university; volume; world cache: ips-22.pdf plain text: ips-22.txt item: #63 of 115 id: ips-28 author: Salvati, Eugenio; Vercesi, Michelangelo title: Party Organizations and Legislative Turnover: Signals of an Unstable Parliamentary Class? date: 2018-06-23 words: 6661 flesch: 59 summary: To exclude minor changes, we consider as new parties only those that were not in the previous Parliament with a parliamentary group and reached at least 5% of votes. Recent changes in legislative turnover rates in Italy have been theoretically associated with a couple of conditions: the emergence of new parties, voters’ realignments, chang- ing electoral rules, the decline of mass-based parties, and the change of the multi-level state structure which provides career opportunities to ambitious politicians at other lev- els of government (Lanza and Piazza 2002; Verzichelli 2006; Cotta and Verzichelli 2016: 78, 177; Grimaldi and Vercesi 2018). keywords: access; account; analysis; candidates; case; cattaneo; chamber; changes; citizens; class; comparative; control; convent; council; data; democratic; deputies; election; electoral; european; factors; general; gouglas; heinsohn; high; higher; important; institutionalization; istituto; italian; italy; journal; leader; leadership; league; legislative; legislative turnover; legislatures; level; lists; lower; m5s; maddens; matland; membership; moncrief; mps; new; nominations; organizations; overall; parliamentary; parties; party; political; politics; previous; quarterly; rates; regard; renewal; research; salvati; science; significant; single; studies; studlar; system; table; turnover; vercesi; verzichelli; volatility; votes; winner; worth cache: ips-28.pdf plain text: ips-28.txt item: #64 of 115 id: ips-31 author: Cepernich, Cristopher; Bracciale, Roberta title: Hybrid 2018 campaigning: the social media habits of Italian political leaders and parties date: 2018-06-28 words: 7894 flesch: 46 summary: To understand how the hybrid campaign developed in the Italian con- text, specific indicators were identified to operationalize social media habits related to: (a) communicative strategy, based on the productivity of the account (broadcast) and on its degree of interactivity (conversational), (b) skillfulness, regarding the capability to use different features of the social media platform; and (c) engage- ment, related to the capacity of the account to involve the audience. Measuring social media habits keywords: account; actors; analysis; audience; average; berlusconi; bracciale; broadcast; campaign; campaigning; capacity; cepernich; comments; communication; content; conversational; different; digital; direct; election; electoral; engagement; europa; example; facebook; fact; flow; forza; general; grasso; habits; hashtags; hybrid; indicators; information; interactivity; italian; leaders; lega; liberi; likes; main; maio; matteo; media; meloni; movimento; network; new; number; online; pages; parties; party; percentage; period; pietro; platform; political; political leaders; politics; posts; press; productivity; public; renzi; retweets; salvini; significant; silvio; skilfulness; social; social media; specific; stelle; strategies; strategy; table; time; total; tweets; twitter; uguali; university; use; users; v.% cache: ips-31.pdf plain text: ips-31.txt item: #65 of 115 id: ips-32 author: Bobba, Giuliano; Roncarolo, Franca title: The likeability of populism on social media in the 2018 Italian general election date: 2018-06-19 words: 5562 flesch: 58 summary: As mentioned, Berlusconi, Di Maio, Meloni, and Salvini have been considered as leaders of populist parties, while Grasso and Renzi as leaders of non-populist parties. Activity and likeability of leaders of populist and non-populist parties on FB N Likes (Mean) Median FB Fans (N) Leaders of populist parties (Mean) 327 6,252 4,197 Berlusconi 136 2,826 1,740 1,061,607 Di Maio 329 9,446 5,595 1,621,552 Meloni 362 3,828 1,972 834,740 Salvini 482 8,909 6,672 2,213,012 Leaders of non-populist parties (Mean) 75 5,376 3,874 Grasso 55 3,507 2,864 144,080 Renzi 95 7,244 4,667 1,124,102 Total 1,459 6,890 4,159 As regards the populist content of the message, Figure 1 and Table 2 show that pop- ulist postings received more likes than non-populist ones almost continuously during the campaign. keywords: analysis; anti; article; berlusconi; bobba; campaign; communication; complete; contentious; discourse; election; elements; elites; elitist; european; facebook; fdi; general; grasso; hand; italian; italy; key; leaders; likeability; likes; m5s; maio; media; meloni; messages; mudde; non; number; ones; parties; party; people; political; politics; populist; populist parties; posts; references; renzi; research; right; roncarolo; salvini; social; social media; survey; table; terms; types; wing cache: ips-32.pdf plain text: ips-32.txt item: #66 of 115 id: ips-34 author: Chiaramonte, Alessandro; D'Alimonte, Roberto title: The new Italian electoral system and its effects on strategic coordination and disproportionality date: 2018-05-21 words: 5574 flesch: 68 summary: Gallagher, M. (1991), Proportionality, disproportionality and electoral systems, in ‘Electoral Studies’, vol. 10, n. 1, pp. On the contamination effects in mixed electoral systems see Chiaramonte (2005) and Ferrara, Herron and Nishikawa (2005). keywords: candidates; case; centre; chamber; chiaramonte; coalition; constitutional; court; different; disproportionality; d’alimonte; election; electoral; electoral system; italian; italian electoral; law; left; level; list; m5s; main; majority; mixed; mmds; national; new; number; parties; party; plurality; pr seats; prize; proportional; reform; representation; right; seats; second; senate; smds; system; terms; total; vol; votes; voting; winner cache: ips-34.pdf plain text: ips-34.txt item: #67 of 115 id: ips-35 author: Pedrazzani, Andrea; Pinto, Luca; Segatti, Paolo title: Italian candidates under the Rosato law date: 2018-06-20 words: 9198 flesch: 56 summary: Results highlight the impact of the new electoral institutions, as in 2018 the overall number of Italian candidates and lists has decreased if compared to the 2013 elections. In addition, the population of Italian would-be deputies has become more balanced in terms of gender – though not any younger – and the turnover rate among Italian candidates seems to be somewhat lower than in 2013. keywords: 2013; analysis; bologna; candidates; chamber; constituencies; constituency; data; del; deputies; district; elections; electoral; electoral system; elezioni; experience; female; female candidates; figure; gender; general; italian; italian candidates; italian parliament; italy; law; leaders; leu; lists; m5s; member; member constituencies; mixed; multi; multiple; multiple candidacies; new; new electoral; number; office; parliament; parties; party; party leaders; party lists; past; pedrazzani; percentage; period; place; plurality; political; politics; public; representation; right; rosato; rosato law; rules; run; running; seats; segatti; single; system; table; time; use; virgilio; votes; women cache: ips-35.pdf plain text: ips-35.txt item: #68 of 115 id: ips-36 author: Paparo, Aldo title: Challenger’s delight: The results of the 2018 Italian general election: The results of the 2018 Italian general election date: 2018-06-30 words: 9156 flesch: 67 summary: In the south turnout dropped 1.6%, from 69.8% to 68.2% (with a variation rate of -2.4%), while elsewhere the drop was 2.8% (-3.5%). % PR FPTP Abroad Total keywords: 2013; analysis; average; bologna; candidates; centre; challenger; chamber; chiaramonte; cities; coalition; consequence; corbetta; country; data; debutant; delight; different; eds; election; electoral; employees; european; figure; general; geographical; groups; high; history; houses; italian; italy; larger; law; left; level; little; m5s; main; majority; map; mulino; national; new; north; overall; paparo; parliament; parties; party; plurality; political; politics; public; red; rest; results; right; seats; second; sector; senate; shifts; sio; smds; south; successful; system; table; time; total; turnout; vol; voters; western; winner; zone cache: ips-36.pdf plain text: ips-36.txt item: #69 of 115 id: ips-39 author: Marino, Bruno; Martocchia Diodati, Nicola; Verzichelli, Luca title: From the Demolition to the Re-Composition of Parliamentary Elites: Novelties and New Modes of Political Recruitment in the 2018 Italian Lower House date: 2018-10-29 words: 7527 flesch: 46 summary: Moreover, special attention is paid to the two parties supporting the Govern- ment of Change, i.e. the League and the M5S. As more extensively shown in Marino, Martocchia Diodati and Verzichelli (forth- coming), the five mutually-exclusive categories have been formed starting with three MP features1: in particular, each category has been defined by taking into consideration each MP’s experience at the local government level (e.g., having been a mayor, or a re- gional MP), each MP’s career within political parties (e.g., having been part of a central organ of a political formation, like National Direction or a National Executive Office), and, finally, each MP’s parliamentary tenure. On the one hand, other parties show a sub- stantially lower degree of Intruders (in particular, LeU, the PD, and the League). keywords: analysis; average; cambiamento; candidacies; candidacy; change; circulation; class; clusters; composition; del; demolition; differences; different; diodati; election; electoral; elite; experience; fdi; features; figure; future; general; government; governo; group; hand; high; house; house mps; important; institutional; interesting; intruders; italian; leaders; league; lega; leu; local; local party; lower; m5s; machine; mandarins; marino; martocchia; member; movimento; mps; multi; national; national untouchables; new; offices; parliamentarians; parliamentary; parties; party; percentage; political; politicians; politics; positions; relevance; relevant; science; section; seniority; specific; stelle; untouchables; verzichelli cache: ips-39.pdf plain text: ips-39.txt item: #70 of 115 id: ips-40 author: Emanuele, Vincenzo title: Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Who’s the winner? An analysis of the 2018 Italian general election’ date: 2018-07-04 words: 3661 flesch: 44 summary: Chiaramonte, A. and Emanuele, V. (2018), ‘Towards turbulent times: measuring and explaining party system (de-) institutionalization in Western Europe (1945–2015)’, Italian Political Science Review, doi: 10.1017/ipo.2017.27. Emanuele, V. (2018a), ‘Il peggior risultato di sempre della sinistra italiana, la seconda più debole d’Europa’, Italian Centre for Electoral Studies, 5 March 2018 https://cise.luiss.it/cise/ 2018/03/05/il-peggior-risultato-di-sempre-della-sinistra-italiana/. Emanuele, V. (2018b) ‘Dataset of electoral volatility and its internal components in Western Eu- rope (1945-2015)’, CISE, New data release 2 May 2018, http://cise.luiss.it/cise/dataset-of- electoral-volatility-and-its-internal-components-in-western-europe-1945-2015/. Emanuele, V. and Chiaramonte, A. (2016) ‘A growing impact of new parties: myth or reality? As far as the determinants of legislative turnover are concerned, they find that the prominent legis- lative turnover recorded in 2018 – comparable to that in other two turbulent elections, namely in 1994 and 2013 – is not fully accounted for by those factors that are tradition- ally highlighted by the literature on the topic (i.e., systemic factors), such as high electoral volatility, the emergence of new parties, or the presence of new electoral rules. keywords: 2013; analysis; article; candidates; centre; change; characteristics; chiaramonte; class; coalition; different; election; electoral; electoral system; emanuele; europe; european; forza; general; high; introduction; issue; italian; kriesi; leaders; left; lega; level; m5s; main; majoritarian; media; messages; new; parliamentary; parties; party; perspective; political; politics; populist; results; second; share; special; system; time; turnover; vote; voters; western cache: ips-40.pdf plain text: ips-40.txt item: #71 of 115 id: ips-41 author: Panebianco, Stefania; Zucchini, Francesco title: An introductory note: By the former IPS Co-Editors date: 2018-07-06 words: 382 flesch: 53 summary: A number of interviews with the founding fathers of Political Science in Italy and with Italian political scientists in rele- vant international roles aimed at fostering the circulation of ideas, in combination with short but more structured articles. Microsoft Word - PDF_Issue_13_1_i.docx Italian Political Science, VOLUME 13 ISSUE 1, MAY 2018 © 2018 Italian Political Science. keywords: access; ips; issue; italian; italy; journal; new; political; science cache: ips-41.pdf plain text: ips-41.txt item: #72 of 115 id: ips-42 author: Piattoni, Simona title: The Impact of Research Assessment on the Profession and the Discipline of Political Science date: 2018-08-08 words: 1499 flesch: 31 summary: Have research assessment exercises in your country been met with enthusiasm and collaboration or with suspicion and resistance? Research assessment exercises introduce a number of potential distortive ele- ments: a) peer-reviewed journal articles tend to be assessed better than edited volumes and monographs, regardless of their real value; b) joint works tend to be preferred over single-authored works, inducing the artificial inflation of multi- author products; c) all other things being equal, works in English attract greater readership and gain higher impact factors than works in national languages, which affects particularly academic communities which do not use English as their first language; d) research assessment rankings of Departments and schol- ars induce ‘gaming strategies’ that create further distortions (strategic hiring, discouragement of teaching, creation of two-tier academic milieus) that do not necessarily secure better scholarship; d) the advantages of creating a culture of as- sessment, peer-review and accountability may be more than offset by the costs, in terms of time and money, of the assessment exercise itself; 4. keywords: academic; articles; assessment; countries; departments; discipline; european; evaluation; exercises; impact; indicators; italian; journal; political; political science; production; profession; rankings; research; research assessment; roundtable; scholars; science; works cache: ips-42.pdf plain text: ips-42.txt item: #73 of 115 id: ips-43 author: Flinders, Matthew title: The Tragedies of Political Science: The Politics of Research Assessment in the United Kingdom date: 2018-08-08 words: 13484 flesch: 40 summary: The point being made is simple: although research assessment processes have un- doubtedly incentivized a strong focus on research and publication within higher education, the definition of ‘excellence’ is arguably fairly narrow. The main concluding argument is therefore not about research assessment per sebut about how research assessment is contributing to the break-up of academe and the splin- tering of disciplines along diverging pathways. keywords: academic; account; approach; argument; article; assessment process; bar; basis; british; broader; bureaucratic; capacity; career; case; clear; consequences; debates; departments; different; direct; disciplinary; discipline; education; element; environment; example; excellence; exercise; existence; expectations; extent; external; external research; final; flinders; focus; form; framework; funding; future; gap; governance; government; higher; higher education; impact; increase; institutions; intellectual; international; introduction; issue; life; like; likely; little; long; main; major; manner; market; mrs; nature; new; new politics; non; number; order; outputs; overall; performance; point; political science; politics; position; positive; possible; pressures; process; processes; professional; public; quality; rae; recent; ref; ref2014; relevance; research assessment; research funding; research quality; review; risks; role; scholarship; second; section; sector; sense; set; short; significant; simple; small; social; society; specific; staff; students; studies; sub; submission; system; table; teaching; tef; terms; thatcher; time; total; tragedies; tragedy; turn; unintended; united; universities; university; value; ways; world; years cache: ips-43.pdf plain text: ips-43.txt item: #74 of 115 id: ips-44 author: Andeweg, Rudy B. title: Two Decades of Political Science Research Assessment: the Dutch experience date: 2018-08-08 words: 3335 flesch: 42 summary: To a large extent, research assessments are a non-issue. THE IMPACT OF RESEARCH ASSESSMENT ON THE PROFESSION AND THE DISCIPLINE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 31 Criticisms The fact that research assessments are hardly controversial in Dutch academia does not mean that there are no criticisms of aspects of the assessment exercises. keywords: aims; andeweg; assessment; committee; comparative; consequences; criteria; departments; direct; discipline; dutch; evaluation; exercise; funding; good; impact; minister; netherlands; political; political science; professionalization; protocol; publications; quality; recent; report; research; research assessments; science; science research; scores; self; standard; teaching; units; universities; university cache: ips-44.pdf plain text: ips-44.txt item: #75 of 115 id: ips-45 author: Paradeise, Catherine title: The French HER system and the issue of evaluation date: 2018-08-08 words: 4474 flesch: 44 summary: Conclusion: pros and cons of research assessment When considered at the systemic level, the obsession of HE policies to make French uni- versities “visible from Shanghai” could endanger universities and departments which have no hope of accessing the Walhalla of world excellence, but place a major emphasis on the higher education of large segments of the young population. For all these reasons, it is difficult to sum up and provide a uniform overall assess- ment of research assessment in France. keywords: academic; aeres; agency; allocation; assessment; centers; committees; development; disciplinary; discipline; education; evaluation; excellence; field; france; french; funding; grants; higher; humanities; impact; indicators; individual; institutions; international; issue; journals; large; list; major; making; national; organizations; paradeise; performance; political; profession; public; recherche; recruitment; reforms; research; scholars; schools; sciences; scientific; set; social; system; table; teaching; tools; units; universities; university cache: ips-45.pdf plain text: ips-45.txt item: #76 of 115 id: ips-46 author: Checchi, Daniele title: The Italian Research Assessment Exercises date: 2018-08-08 words: 3472 flesch: 40 summary: Thus, a net separation between research assessment and promotion criteria would be required before addressing this problem. Compliance rates vary across research areas, oscillating between 90% and 97%.3 Journal articles represent the dominant submission for hard sciences (reaching 98% in Biology and Medicine), while collected papers (edited volumes) prevail in the social sciences and humanities. keywords: areas; articles; assessment; assessment exercises; best; bibliometric; different; distribution; evaluation; exercise; experts; fraction; funding; impact; indicator; issue; italian; journal; new; number; papers; peer; political; products; publication; quality; recent; research; research assessment; resources; results; review; scholars; science; submission; system; table; teaching; total; universities; university; vqr; weight; year cache: ips-46.pdf plain text: ips-46.txt item: #77 of 115 id: ips-47 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: Book Reviews (Vol. 12 Issue 1) date: 2018-08-08 words: 4452 flesch: 40 summary: The all- encompassing approach adopted in this book, as stated in the introduction, aims to investigate political parties’ and civil society’s contingent and qualified or outright and unqualified contestation of the European democracy. The book proposes a “new holistic approach” to conceptualizing and analyz- ing the party family of the radical left and is developed along three dimensions: the family of radical parties, the individual parties, and the most important fields of in- vestigation. keywords: analysis; anti; book; chapter; chiocchetti; communist; comparative; comprehensive; conflict; countries; crisis; democracies; democracy; depth; different; discontent; electoral; empirical; european; euroscepticism; evolution; family; framework; germany; historical; important; institutional; international; introduction; issue; italian; italy; law; left; media; mediterranean; migrations; new; operations; panebianco; parliamentary; parties; party; passarelli; phenomenon; policies; policy; political; politics; presidentialization; public; radical; radical left; research; reviews; right; role; simona; social; society; systems; terms; theoretical; time; tradition; volume; western cache: ips-47.pdf plain text: ips-47.txt item: #78 of 115 id: ips-48 author: Padovani, Claudia; Vignelli, Giovanna title: Introduction date: 2018-08-20 words: 2710 flesch: 44 summary: A deeper engagement of Italian political science with gender studies seems urgent first of all on the grounds of an evident delay in acknowledging and taking advantage of the innovation brought by national and international scholarship in this area of research and knowledge. Notwithstanding the problems in dealing with the structure and organization of aca- demic power (Saraceno 1995), there have been developments in theoretical and practice- oriented bodies of knowledge that critically question the accepted paradigms and catego- ries of particular disciplines and promote the affirmation of gender issues in society at large; while new theoretical models and interpretive tools have often emerged from pro- ductive dialogs across disciplines. keywords: academic; approaches; community; concepts; contributions; different; discipline; education; european; european political; feminism; gender; international; issue; italian; knowledge; methods; new; nexus; number; obvious; oxford; perspective; political; political science; politics; power; relations; research; scholars; science; scientists; social; state; studies; study; themed; united; university; volume; women; world cache: ips-48.pdf plain text: ips-48.txt item: #79 of 115 id: ips-49 author: Kantola, Johanna; Lombardo, Emanuela title: Gender and Politics Studies within European Political Science: Contributions and Challenges date: 2018-08-20 words: 2252 flesch: 45 summary: Introduction Gender and politics has become a vibrant subdiscipline of political science over the past twenty years. The contribution of gender and politics studies to the field of political science and In- ternational Relations has nowadays partially been recognized so that Liza Mügge, Elizabeth Evans and Isabelle Engeli (2016: 2) argue that ‘Gender scholarship is gradually becoming part of mainstream political science, while retaining its distinct identity’. keywords: 15(3; ackerly; analysis; approaches; celis; contributions; different; discipline; doi:10.1057; emanuela; engeli; european; evans; feminist; gender; institutions; issues; johanna; kantola; lombardo; mügge; new; pateman; political; politics; power; press; relations; research; science; siim; studies; theory; university; women cache: ips-49.pdf plain text: ips-49.txt item: #80 of 115 id: ips-50 author: de Jong, Sara title: Beyond Good News and Bad News: Narrating Gender in Political Science date: 2018-08-20 words: 2603 flesch: 50 summary: The rich academic and activist work of Italian feminist scholars, the ambivalences about the institutionalisation of feminist perspec- tives, and the struggles of feminist political science scholars in the hegemonic academic centres belie that judgement. In a related vein, Carol Mershon and Denise Walsh, editors of a 2016 Dialogue Section on ‘Diversity in the Discipline: why it matters and how to get it’, collected contributions from feminist political science scholars who turn the analytical lenses they usually employ to study politics in the world, such as attitude survey data and intersectional approaches, to research the discipline of politics. keywords: academic; bad; celis; change; discipline; education; feminist; gender; gendered; good; handbook; italian; kantola; narrative; news; obvious; oxford; political; political science; politics; positive; progress; research; scholars; science; state; stories; story; university; waylen; weldon; work; world cache: ips-50.pdf plain text: ips-50.txt item: #81 of 115 id: ips-51 author: Achin, Catherine title: Gender and Political Science: Lessons from the French Case date: 2018-08-20 words: 1999 flesch: 45 summary: Gender research has been conducted in different sectors relevant to political science: in political theory (Elshtain, Pateman), post-structuralist feminism (Landes, Butler and GENDER AND POLITICS 13 Scott, Benhabib), but also in empirical political science (Carroll, Sapiro, Norris, etc.), fem- inist sociology of organizations (Kanter, Acker, etc.) and institutions (Freeman, Lovenduski, Ferguson, etc.), and finally in international relations (Enloe, Tickner, etc.) With this book, we aimed to offer a practical and accessible guide for the studies on gender and politics and to further the integration of gender studies in the discipline of political science. keywords: achin; approach; courses; critical; different; field; france; french; gender; genre; history; institutions; international; issues; main; paris; perspective; political; political science; politics; politique; power; public; research; role; science; social; sociology; studies; women cache: ips-51.pdf plain text: ips-51.txt item: #82 of 115 id: ips-52 author: Poggio, Barbara title: Networking and Partnership as Strategic Practices for Gender Studies in Academia: the Case of the University of Trento date: 2018-08-20 words: 1724 flesch: 37 summary: For this reason, the Centre is open to external members, including individuals as well as public and private institutions concerned in any way with gender issues. Another important point is that these centers do not usually have a very easy life with- in universities, where gender issues are not considered a priority, and sometimes are even dismissed as “non-scientific”. keywords: academia; case; centers; centre; csg; debate; different; education; european; gender; group; institutions; interdisciplinary; international; issues; italian; networking; organizations; partnership; poggio; policies; political; practices; project; public; research; scholars; science; studies; trento; university; women cache: ips-52.pdf plain text: ips-52.txt item: #83 of 115 id: ips-53 author: Perini, Lorenza title: Teaching in a Gender Perspective date: 2018-08-20 words: 2973 flesch: 46 summary: Through the lens of gender students are asked to take a deeper look at life around them, at the society they are living in and – possibly- reconsider some of their own beliefs and understandings. We also reflect on the role of the European Community which, despite the resistance of local institutions, in the last ten years has strongly pushed for gender issues to be main- streamed in all fields of research and aspects of life in academic environments. keywords: academic; account; analysis; category; class; course; cultural; differences; different; english; european; final; gender; gender perspective; institutions; issues; italian; knowledge; life; local; making; national; opportunity; organized; participants; participation; perspective; place; point; policies; political; politics; project; real; science; students; teaching; type; universities; university; view; women cache: ips-53.pdf plain text: ips-53.txt item: #84 of 115 id: ips-54 author: Leccardi, Carmen title: Young women’s Subjectivities and New Feminisms in the Neo-Liberal Age date: 2018-08-20 words: 3293 flesch: 55 summary: If this does not happen and, instead, types of social critique and openly gendered mobilizations grow, it is certain- ly thanks to the specific ability of new generations of young women to express forms of political subjectivity (Magaraggia e Vingelli 2015), in particular through forms of presence on the public space connected to the fight against precariousness and the oppression of institutional identities. Young Women’s Subjectivities and New Feminisms in the Neo-Liberal Age Carmen Leccardi UNIVERSITÀ DI MILANO BICOCCA he generations of young women raised between the last decade of last century and this century inherited from second wave feminism (the feminism of the 1960s and 1970s), the expression of subjectivity as a taken for granted right. keywords: 1970s; age; century; contemporary; critical; cultural; different; exercise; expression; fantone; feminism; forms; gender; generations; genere; harris; identities; identity; individual; issue; knowledge; liberal; life; lives; milano; movement; neo; new; people; personal; political; politics; precariousness; public; reflexivity; right; second; self; social; sphere; studies; subjectivities; subjectivity; subjects; time; wave; women; world; young; young women cache: ips-54.pdf plain text: ips-54.txt item: #85 of 115 id: ips-55 author: Chabot, Isabelle title: The Association of Italian Women Historians and the Promotion of Gender Culture in Italy date: 2018-08-20 words: 2556 flesch: 48 summary: Starting from a historical perspective open to the contemporaneity, and the changes at work in the world of women, some of the last editions of the Scuola estiva dealt with specific themes, including: The challenge of feminism to the movements of the Seventies (2004); Women in the monotheistic religions: Faith, politics, freedom (2006); The construc- tion of motherhood: History, science, feminist reflection (2013); Disobedience: gender, power, resistance (2014).4 The 2016 edition of the SIS summer school took place from 31 October to 2 November and focused on the very current issue of Procreation and mother- hood, between history and biotechnology. In the workshop “Leadership and Work”, learning was rooted in individual work ex- perience, with the narrative of leadership skills, successes and failures, conflicts. keywords: anna; association; chabot; che; cit; course; culture; differenza; equal; female; formazione; gender; historians; history; isabelle; italian; knowledge; leadership; open; opportunities; organizations; participants; political; politics; project; public; report; rome; scattigno; school; sis; skills; summer; toscana; training; women; work cache: ips-55.pdf plain text: ips-55.txt item: #86 of 115 id: ips-56 author: Monceri, Flavia title: Beyond the Obvious: Whose Gender Studies? date: 2018-08-20 words: 1986 flesch: 45 summary: Unfortunately, these and similar answers are not enough to me and asking “Why?” immediately brings me back to the questions of “who” and “for whom”, and hence to the responsibility of those who “do” gender studies in deconstructing the stereotypical associ- ation between gender and women. Beyond the Obvious: Whose Gender Studies? Flavia Monceri UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE he situation of gender studies in Italy is still quite troubling for a number of rea- sons, but in this brief commentary I will touch on only one from the standpoint of a political philosopher who also teaches gender studies (studi di genere). keywords: association; gender; gender studies; genere; group; identification; identity; issues; italian; italy; kind; obvious; people; political; politics; research; researchers; studies; theories; women cache: ips-56.pdf plain text: ips-56.txt item: #87 of 115 id: ips-57 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: Book Reviews (Vol. 11 Issue 2) date: 2018-08-20 words: 11166 flesch: 40 summary: The aim of clarifying “why and how political parties in different countries choose to reform their methods of selecting candidates and leaders in an inclusive direction, and what the effects brought about by that choice are” (p. 181) is pursued at three levels: political system, party system and intra-party level. In the chapter on the formation of the executive agenda, Borghetto and Ca- rammia, as part of a larger comparative project on this topic, study the evolving agenda of political parties from the election manifestos right up to the formation of the government’s agenda. keywords: agenda; analysis; analytical; anti; areas; argument; author; authorities; behavior; book; cases; center; challenges; changes; chapter; citizens; coalition; cold; common; community; comparative; concept; conclusions; constitution; countries; country; courts; crisis; culture; data; decision; degree; democracies; democracy; democratic; diagnosis; different; dimension; economic; editors; elections; electoral; european; executive; explanations; extent; fabbrini; factors; federal; focus; force; fourth; framework; future; germany; government; great; impact; important; increase; institutional; intergovernmental; international; introduction; ips; isbn; issue; italian; italian political; italy; judicial; justice; law; left; legislative; level; liberal; local; local government; main; making; management; member; military; model; municipalities; new; order; original; parliament; participatory; parties; party; party system; performance; period; piana; policy; political; political system; politics; populist; post; powers; primaries; primary; problems; process; provinces; questions; recent; reforms; relevant; representative; republic; reviews; role; second; security; selection; social; spain; states; strategic; sustainability; system; terms; time; union; university; use; vision; volume; war; way cache: ips-57.pdf plain text: ips-57.txt item: #88 of 115 id: ips-58 author: Moschella, Manuela; Panebianco, Stefania; Zucchini, Francesco title: Editorial date: 2018-08-23 words: 1121 flesch: 44 summary: What emerges from the contributions is a widespread belief that political scientists are somehow marginalized in public debates and political decisions in our country, especially when compared to lawyers and economists: “we find ourselves operating in a cultural tradition that attributes to lawyers pride of place in the management of ‘cosa pub- blica’.” The first theme is the distinctive contributions that political scientists can make in public debate and political processes but also the reverse, i.e. the additional value of expe- riences as public official or consultant to academic work. keywords: academic; contributors; general; ips; issue; italian; ivory; knowledge; outside; policy; political; processes; public; relevance; science; scientists; social; tower; world cache: ips-58.pdf plain text: ips-58.txt item: #89 of 115 id: ips-59 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: Political Scientists as Consultants and Advisors: IPS interviews Stefano Sacchi date: 2018-08-23 words: 3293 flesch: 58 summary: Being policy advisor of the PM’s Office is still fun Did you find it easier to research or to be policy advisor? keywords: act; actors; advisor; change; chief; day; decision; economists; example; experience; general; government; ips; isfol; knowledge; labor; making; meetings; minister; ministry; new; office; policies; policy; policymaking; political; possible; public; reform; renzi; research; science; scientists; social; stefano; time; university; work cache: ips-59.pdf plain text: ips-59.txt item: #90 of 115 id: ips-60 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: IPS interviews David Natali date: 2018-08-23 words: 1549 flesch: 58 summary: POLITICAL SCIENTISTS AS CONSULTANTS AND ADVISORS 9 IPS: Should political science scholars “get their hands dirty,” i.e., intervene more in politics and policy making, so that they gain in relevance? On top of that, I am involved in the European Social Policy Network (ESPN), the set of experts of social policy that support the European Commission in monitoring and assessing welfare reforms across the EU and in other projects supported by EU stakeholders. keywords: academic; analysis; analytical; background; dialog; different; european; ips; knowledge; life; policy; policymakers; policymaking; political; politics; research; scholars; science; scientists; social; solutions; studies; time cache: ips-60.pdf plain text: ips-60.txt item: #91 of 115 id: ips-61 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: IPS interviews Marco Cacciotto date: 2018-08-23 words: 2017 flesch: 52 summary: There are several factors that represent significant challenges for the political consulting industry in the years to come, and which could bring the profession to be redefined, once again: momentous technological advances; the extending of campaigning in public affairs and policy consulting; more services and clients from the private industry as an ex- tension of voter/consumer segmentation and innovative approaches developed for political campaigns; the increasing need for continuous campaigning (which usual- ly results in either a long-term and stable work relationship with the elected candidate or a temporary “settling” in institutions until the next electoral cam- paign). Political consultants measure public opinion, target and identify likely voters, craft messages and strategies, design television and print advertisements, build web- sites, and decide how to adapt the overall theme and strategy of the campaign for the digital media formats. keywords: academic; advantage; advisors; approach; cacciotto; campaigning; campaigns; communication; consultants; data; electoral; experience; ips; italy; job; lot; marketing; models; new; policy; political; politics; presidential; profession; public; science; scientific; scientists; work; years cache: ips-61.pdf plain text: ips-61.txt item: #92 of 115 id: ips-62 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: Political Scientists as Politicians and Public Officials: IPS interviews Elisabetta Gualmini date: 2018-08-23 words: 1210 flesch: 57 summary: Political experience provides political scientists with enormous knowledge about the objects they study. I think voters have become more demanding and are no longer satisfied with slogans: they look for serious interlocutors and political scientists can provide citizens with insights on the political and social reality of our time. keywords: academic; day; experience; important; ips; knowledge; meetings; policies; political; position; public; regional; science; scientists; social; university; work cache: ips-62.pdf plain text: ips-62.txt item: #93 of 115 id: ips-63 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: IPS interviews Luca Martinelli date: 2018-08-23 words: 2299 flesch: 49 summary: After completing his PhD in Political Science in the University of Florence in 1995, he undertook research at the Uni- versity of Bologna (Centre for Public Policy Analysis in the Department of Organization and Political System), on projects related to public administration and public policy anal- ysis. This is probably why I went for public policy and public admin- istration studies, and why I have chosen a policy practitioner career. keywords: academic; administration; background; career; commission; current; digital; european; experience; general; health; important; information; ips; italian; job; knowledge; level; management; office; official; policy; political; politics; possible; practitioner; process; public; publications; research; science; university; work cache: ips-63.pdf plain text: ips-63.txt item: #94 of 115 id: ips-64 author: Settembri, Pierpaolo title: Political Science and the Professions of Political Scientists: EU officials date: 2018-08-23 words: 2276 flesch: 53 summary: Based on my experience, on the positive side, the PhD proved helpful on a number of fronts, for example to build a certain resili- SETTEMBRI, Political Science and the Professions of Political Scientists: EU Officials 24 ence to stress, to work autonomously, to be rigorous on methodology, to have an eye for detail, to present arguments based on evidence and examples, to draft rapidly. Personal interaction is a more convenient and common way for academics and practitioners to support each other.2 At the same time, there is a long tradition of EU officials engaging in academic activi- ties, including teaching in academic institutions that offer graduate courses on the EU. keywords: academic; commission; contribution; course; daily; european; experience; institutions; interaction; issue; job; officials; parliament; personal; phd; policy; political; political science; public; research; science; scientists; service; specific; tasks; time; work; years cache: ips-64.pdf plain text: ips-64.txt item: #95 of 115 id: ips-65 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: Political Scientists as Research and Training Experts: IPS interviews Angela Liberatore date: 2018-08-23 words: 1773 flesch: 46 summary: Well, all my work has been characterized by links between EU policy (research pol- icy ‘Go international’ means that without some study and research experience abroad and some publications in English, the opportunities become much more narrow (whether one likes or resent the ‘lingua franca’, the need to know it is a fact of sci- entific life –quite obvious to readers of this journal as we are mostly Italians writing and reading in English…). keywords: academia; background; brain; career; commission; economic; erc; european; international; ips; issues; job; knowledge; phd; policy; political; professional; research; sciences; scientific; scientists; social; unit; work cache: ips-65.pdf plain text: ips-65.txt item: #96 of 115 id: ips-66 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: When Political Scientists meet EU Negotiation and Negotiators: IPS interviews Francesco Marchi date: 2018-08-23 words: 2414 flesch: 40 summary: WHEN POLITICAL SCIENTISTS MEET EU NEGOTIATION AND NEGOTIATORS 31 – IRENE,3 based at the Department of Public Policies of the ESSEC Business School, I am the Director of the “Negotiators of Europe” Research and Training Program. WHEN POLITICAL SCIENTISTS MEET EU NEGOTIATION AND NEGOTIATORS 33 international relations and political science. keywords: boston; courses; european; findings; harvard; institute; institutions; international; ips; learning; marchi; negotiation; negotiators; new; officials; participants; phd; political; practice; press; professional; public; research; science; simulation; skills; states; students; theory; time; training; university cache: ips-66.pdf plain text: ips-66.txt item: #97 of 115 id: ips-67 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: Political Scientists as Public Intellectuals: IPS interviews Sofia Ventura date: 2018-08-23 words: 1335 flesch: 60 summary: A general problem in our country is that politics tends to rely on political scientists, economists or lawyers only at the point in which political choices need to be legiti- mized. What are the most im- portant contributions that political scientists can bring to the table? keywords: academic; bologna; college; debate; engagement; important; ips; italian; knowledge; policymakers; political; politics; public; risk; science; scientists; sofia; university; ventura; work cache: ips-67.pdf plain text: ips-67.txt item: #98 of 115 id: ips-68 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: Book Reviews (Vol. 11 Issue 1) date: 2018-08-23 words: 7875 flesch: 42 summary: The substantive scope of this analysis means that the book addresses a number of ongoing debates in EU political science scholarship by providing a common frame for the analysis and evaluation of the quality of EU democracy. The result is a collective volume that makes compelling reading and that will prove a valuable resource not only for EU scholars but more broadly for researchers in comparative politics. keywords: access; actors; alliance; analysis; approach; armed; attention; book; carbone; chapter; citizens; coherence; common; complex; contribution; countries; crisis; csdp; decision; defense; democracy; democratic; development; different; economic; elections; empirical; european; european elections; european politics; european union; evolution; forces; general; graziano; groups; holy; important; influence; institutional; integration; interests; international; ips; isbn; issue; italian; law; legitimacy; literature; lobbying; main; making; member; military; nature; netanyahu; new; nexus; number; order; organization; particular; parties; perspective; point; policies; policy; political; politics; power; pritoni; process; processes; relations; religious; research; resources; results; reviews; role; routledge; scholars; second; security; specific; states; structure; supranational; system; theoretical; theory; time; trade; trade policy; transformation; true; union; university; volume; war; way; western; work; world cache: ips-68.pdf plain text: ips-68.txt item: #99 of 115 id: ips-70 author: Casula, Mattia; Toth, Federico title: The Yellow-Green Government and the Thorny Issue of Childhood Routine Vaccination date: 2018-10-29 words: 5295 flesch: 53 summary: The so-called ‘no-vax’ movement initially developed on the Internet and on social networks, but later also organized public meetings, events, and supported the publication of some books against vac- cines and vaccination obligations. The decrease in vaccination coverage is a concern not only for non-immunized in- dividuals, but also for society as a whole. keywords: anti; childhood; childhood vaccination; children; conversion; conversion law; coverage; debate; decree; decree law; favour; flexible; government; green; green government; health; herd; immunity; immunization; issue; italian; italy; law; league; lorenzin; lorenzin decree; mandatory; measles; ministry; movement; national; obligation; option; parties; political; position; public; region; routine; sanctions; school; senate; star; star movement; thorny; toth; vaccination; vaccines; vax; veneto; world; years; yellow cache: ips-70.pdf plain text: ips-70.txt item: #100 of 115 id: ips-71 author: Vittori, Davide title: Party change in anti-establishment parties in government: the case of Five Stars Movement and SYRIZA date: 2018-10-29 words: 6943 flesch: 59 summary: The findings show that, albeit follow- ing different paths, party changes in the two parties followed the same pattern as mainstream parties. The article proceeds as follows: drawing from the main work in the field, the first part is devoted to the analytical framework of party changes. keywords: anti; cambiamento; casaleggio; case; change; coalition; congress; crisis; crucial; del; democracy; different; elections; electoral; european; external; following; government; governo; great; greece; greek; grillo; harmel; infusion; institutionalization; internal; issue; italian; italy; janda; leadership; left; legislative; local; m5s; mainstream; majority; movement; movimento; new; non; organizations; paper; parliament; parties; party; party change; pasok; pco; performance; phase; political; politics; populist; power; process; programme; radical; recession; reforms; regional; relevant; routinization; shock; statute; stelle; strategy; syn; syriza; system; time; total; tsipras; university; value; vittori; vol; voted; yellow cache: ips-71.pdf plain text: ips-71.txt item: #101 of 115 id: ips-74 author: Gianfreda, Stella; Carlotti, Benedetta title: The different twins: A multilevel analysis of the positions of the Northern League and the Five Star Movement on the integration-demarcation dimension date: 2018-10-29 words: 7924 flesch: 53 summary: If not all aspects of definition point to ‘opposition’ or ‘support’ A3: Positive Support of the EU community, which means: • to be in favour of further EU in- tegration; • to be in favour of the process of EU enlargement; • to be in favour of EU values and identity. • Other institutions. EU-community: • EU values and norms (identity). keywords: analysis; anti; arena; arguments; aspects; cambiamento; cambridge; carlotti; case; character; claims; cleavage; common; community; comparative; contrary; control; corpus; country; crisis; criticism; cultural; del; democracy; different; dimension; economic; elite; eu community; european; euroscepticism; favour; gianfreda; government; governo; green; immigration; index; institutional; integration; issue; italian; italy; journal; keyness; keywords; lack; league; level; line; london; m5s; market; max; member; migrants; movement; national; neutral; new; opposition; paper; parliament; particular; parties; party; plot; point; policies; policy; political; politics; populist; positioning; positions; positive; pragmatic; principled; process; radical; reception; regime; right; schengen; science; sentences; social; socio; specific; speeches; spider; states; strong; studies; support; supranational; system; table; target; total; twins; union; value; yellow cache: ips-74.pdf plain text: ips-74.txt item: #102 of 115 id: ips-75 author: De Giorgi, Elisabetta; Dias, António title: Standing apart together? Common traits of (new) challenger parties in the Italian parliament date: 2018-10-29 words: 5936 flesch: 55 summary: The distinction between the new chal- lenger Lega Nord at that time and the other parties is particularly noteworthy when compared with other permanent (radical) opposition parties: in both figures, we can ob- serve that both the Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista - RC) and the Radicals (Federazione Europa – FE) are more inclined to propose new legislation with other opposition parties. The only party with a similar score is the MSI-DN, while other opposition parties, even the Radicals or RC, cooperated more with each other. keywords: 11th; 17th; analysis; behaviour; bill; cambiamento; case; challenger; challenger parties; crisis; del; dias; different; differentiation; dimension; electoral; european; fact; figure; giorgi; government; governo; green; ideological; index; intra; italian; lega; legislature; m5s; main; movement; mps; network; new; new challenger; nord; opposition; opposition parties; parliament; parliamentary; parties; party; plot; political; politics; possible; relationship; results; right; similar; social; sponsorship; star; strategy; success; table; term; time; variable; yellow cache: ips-75.pdf plain text: ips-75.txt item: #103 of 115 id: ips-76 author: Giannetti, Daniela; Pedrazzani, Andrea; Pinto, Luca title: The rising importance of non-economic policy dimensions and the formation of the Conte government date: 2018-10-29 words: 8324 flesch: 57 summary: (20) The General Left–Right Dimension Please locate each party on a general left–right dimension, taking all aspects of party policy into account: • Left. Appendix 1: Italian expert survey policy dimensions Taxes vs. Spending • Promotes raising taxes to increase public services. keywords: accountability; anti; approach; authority; axis; benoit; cabinet; centre; civil; coalition; competition; conte; data; decentralization; deregulation; dimensions; domains; economic; economic policy; election; electoral; environment; eu authority; european; expert; expert survey; figure; formation; general; giannetti; government; governo; green; immigration; importance; integration; issues; italian; italian parties; italian policy; italy; laver; league; left; m5s; maps; march; mean; new; non; parties; party; party competition; party policy; pedrazzani; policies; policy; policy dimensions; policy issues; policy positions; policy space; political; politics; positions; ranking; right; salience; salient; share; social; space; spatial; spending; support; survey; taxes; terms; time; university; vote; yellow cache: ips-76.pdf plain text: ips-76.txt item: #104 of 115 id: ips-80 author: Mancosu, Moreno title: The deep roots of populism: Protest, apathy and the success of Movimento 5 Stelle in the 2013 Italian Elections date: 2019-03-16 words: 6772 flesch: 61 summary: Testing the relationship between void ballots, turnout and M5s geographical distribution Two models will be treated in order to test the relationship between Movimento support and measures of apathy/protest. Instead, old sub-cultures seem to be broken by the Movimento’s support: the example of low Movimento support in Tuscany and high sup- port in neighbouring Umbria – which used to be part of the same sub-culture - is enlightening. keywords: 2013; 2015; abstention; analysis; apathy; attitudes; autocorrelation; ballots; biorcio; corbetta; country; crisis; data; debt; deep; different; distribution; economic; elections; electoral; european; general; geographical; high; italian; italy; itanes; level; local; main; mancosu; mannheimer; measures; model; moran; moreno; movement; movimento; mulino; national; new; north; parties; party; people; percentage; political; politics; populism; present; previous; protest; related; relationship; results; roots; sani; sar; scattering; second; south; spatial; stelle; success; support; system; table; tuorto; turnout; variable; void; voters; way; west cache: ips-80.pdf plain text: ips-80.txt item: #105 of 115 id: ips-81 author: Santana Pereira, José; Moury, Catherine title: Planning the “government of change”: The 2018 Italian coalition agreement in comparative perspective date: 2018-10-29 words: 6338 flesch: 52 summary: Coalition agreement and party mandate: How coalition agreements con- strain the ministers. Initially seen by the coalition politics literature as window dressing, composed of general state- ments aimed at winning everyone’s agreement (e.g. Luebbert 1986, Laver and Budge 1992), more recent empirical research has portrayed coalition agreements rather differ- ently, stressing their importance both in communicating with voters and binding the decision-making process within the coalition (e.g. Müller and Strøm 2000, 2008, Tim- mermans 2006, Moury 2013, Eichorst 2014). keywords: 2011a; agreement; analysis; belgium; berlusconi; cabinet; cambiamento; campaign; centre; change; coalition; coalition agreement; common; comparative; conflict; deals; del; different; document; drafting; elections; electoral; electoral coalition; european; governance; government; governo; green; issues; italian; italy; journal; leaders; left; lega; long; m5s; main; manifestos; members; ministers; moury; müller; negotiations; netherlands; oxford; parliamentary; parties; party; pereira; pledges; policy; political; politics; post; pre; press; process; prodi; programme; republic; right; role; santana; second; strøm; terms; time; timmermans; university; voters; yellow cache: ips-81.pdf plain text: ips-81.txt item: #106 of 115 id: ips-83 author: Bozzini, Emanuela title: The difficult harmonisation of EU policies: insights from the implementation of EU pesticide policy in Italy date: 2019-03-16 words: 6038 flesch: 50 summary: E-mail address: emanuela.bozzini@unitn.it The difficult harmonisation of EU policies: insights into the implementation of EU pesticide policy in Italy Emanuela Bozzini UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO First, some of the features of the Italian model prevent national experts from fully contributing to EU common procedures; second, because of the harmonised nature of EU pesticide policy, inef- ficiencies at national level have the potential to directly affect the overall capacity of the EU to achieve policy results. keywords: active; analysis; arrangements; assessment; authorities; bozzini; cas; centres; chemicals; common; context; country; dar; data; dgsan; different; discussion; dossiers; efsa; emanuela; eu pesticide; european; evaluation; experts; fits; goals; governance; guidelines; harmonisation; harmonised; health; implementation; important; institutional; involvement; italian; italy; level; market; model; mss; national; note; number; paper; peer; pesticide; pesticide policy; plant; point; policies; policy; procedures; processes; products; protection; public; regulation; regulatory; relevant; research; review; risk; scientific; second; section; specific; substances; system; terms; toxicology; use cache: ips-83.pdf plain text: ips-83.txt item: #107 of 115 id: ips-84 author: Cremonesi, Cristina title: Media messages’ influence on populist attitudes. State of the art and insights from an experimental research on the Italian case. date: 2019-06-27 words: 9636 flesch: 53 summary: From these data, all types of populist attitudes proved to be widespread in Italy: among the Italian respondents the mean value of the populism index was 0.68, and all the indexes measuring the specific dimensions of populist attitude presented a mean value higher than 0.5 (Table 3). E-mail address: cristina.cremonesi@unito.it The influence of media messages on populist attitudes: State of the art and insights from experimental research on the Italian case Cristina Cremonesi UNIVERSITY OF TURIN Abstract Despite the growing interest of political and communication scholars in populism in Italy, there is still little knowledge of Italian voters’ populist attitudes and whether and how they are connected to media communication. keywords: action; anni; anti; article; attitudes; blame; bos; che; citizens; communication; comparative; conditions; così; country; cremonesi; cristina; decline; dimensions; d’acquisto; e.g.; economic; effects; elite; elitism; experiment; fact; fondazione; foundation; futurenow; futuroora; gente; hameleers; immigrants; impact; index; influence; italian; italy; mean; media; media messages; messages; mudde; need; new; news; non; nuovo; operationalization; ordinary; outgroup; people; political; politicians; politics; popular; populist; populist attitudes; populist communication; populist media; populist messages; populist political; positive; potere; power; purchasing; questa; rapporto; report; research; respondents; ridurrà; right; sovereignty; studies; study; table; voters; vreese; wing; years cache: ips-84.pdf plain text: ips-84.txt item: #108 of 115 id: ips-85 author: Borghetto, Enrico title: Challenger parties in Parliament: the case of the Italian Five Star Movement date: 2019-03-16 words: 6782 flesch: 58 summary: The determinants of party issue attention in times of crisis. Second, I look closely at the agenda choices of the Movement in comparison with those of other opposition parties during the 17th legislature. keywords: 17th; 17th legislature; agenda; analysis; anti; article; attention; borghetto; case; centre; challenger; challenger parties; competition; convergence; crisis; different; doi; economic; elections; electoral; enrico; european; figure; government; green; grillo; hand; ideological; issue; italian; italy; left; legislature; level; m5s; main; majority; model; movement; mps; new; opposition; opposition parties; parliament; parliamentary; parties; party; pedersen; percent; platform; policy; political; politics; probability; profile; public; question; question time; research; results; right; russo; science; second; sel; session; share; socio; spectrum; star; time; topics; tronconi; weekly; year cache: ips-85.pdf plain text: ips-85.txt item: #109 of 115 id: ips-86 author: Basile, Linda; Borri, Rossella title: Till Policy Do Us Part: What unites (and divides) the Five Star Movement and Lega electorates date: 2019-03-16 words: 7828 flesch: 56 summary: Once again, this index shows a substantial agreement between Salvini’s and Di Maio’s support- ers, although economic sovereignism significantly prevails among Lega voters, as compared to M5S voters. Both the Lega and the M5S share the idea that Italy should regain its power to decide on economic policies (Pirro 2018, 10) and portray the EU as ‘the locus of real power’ (Albertazzi, Giovannini, and Seddone 2018, 649), a technocratic super- power that constrains nation states from using the necessary means to protect their own sovereign people (Ibid.; Passarelli and Tuorto 2018). keywords: answers; anti; assistance; attitudes; austerity; basile; borri; case; centre; change; coalition; common; conspiracy; cultural; cut; democracy; differences; different; direct; domestic; economic; electoral; electorates; elites; european; figure; following; general; governing; government; groups; hand; identity; issues; italian; italy; items; left; lega; lega voters; likely; linda; m5s; making; measures; migrants; migration; movement; national; new; order; p<0.001; parties; party; people; policies; policy; political; politics; popular; populist; post; preferences; public; redistributive; representative; right; rossella; scale; science; scores; services; sovereignism; sovereignty; state; support; supporters; system; table; taxes; thinking; trust; union; values; variables; voters; voting cache: ips-86.pdf plain text: ips-86.txt item: #110 of 115 id: ips-88 author: Pedrazzani, Andrea title: Introduction date: 2018-10-29 words: 5283 flesch: 53 summary: The analysis relies on original expert survey data on Italian parties collected by the authors following the elec- tion of March 2018. In the 2018 elections, both the M5S and the League succeeded in channelling citizens’ frustrations with Italian traditional parties and with the European Union (EU) (Itanes 2018; Valbruzzi and Vignati 2018). keywords: analysis; anti; article; authors; cabinet; cambiamento; case; change; coalition; coalition parties; competition; conte; contract; crisis; del; economic; elections; electoral; european; formation; general; government; government coalition; governo; green; green government; immigration; integration; introduction; issue; italian; italian party; italian political; italy; leaders; league; legislative; m5s; march; ministerial; ministers; new; parliament; parliamentary; particular; parties; partisan; partners; party; party system; patterns; pedrazzani; point; policy; political; politics; possible; power; process; reforms; republic; right; salvini; special; special issue; system; time; yellow cache: ips-88.pdf plain text: ips-88.txt item: #111 of 115 id: ips-95 author: Profeti, Stefania title: Reshaping policy solutions through local implementation: The rationalization of municipal corporations in Leghorn and the case of AAMPS date: 2019-07-08 words: 8970 flesch: 32 summary: To this purpose, besides taking into account spe- cific contextual conditions which are key in the bottom-up approach to implementation (such as policy legacy, the local nature of political competition, the relative salience of the issue, as well as the multiple stakes involved in the policy subsystem), attention is paid to the different streams of actors, problems and events that go along with the drafting and execution of local rationalisation plans, eventually triggering subsequent rounds of policy calibration. Furthermore, which drivers accompany the transition from the choice of local solutions, to the implementation of those solutions? keywords: 5sm; aamps; accounts; actors; administration; analysis; approach; approval; arrangement; ato; authorities; bankruptcy; case; central; centre; certain; changes; coastal; companies; company; consolidated; context; corporations; costs; council; councillor; course; court; creditors; decision; decree; directors; elections; electoral; enterprises; environment; essay; events; fact; finance; financial; government; hand; howlett; implementation; institutional; instrument; interview; italian; italy; january; key; law; leaders; legal; leghorn; livorno; local; local authorities; local implementation; m5s; making; management; mayor; measures; merger; municipal; municipal council; municipalities; municipality; national; nature; new; nogarin; number; office; operating; particular; party; plan; policy; policy solutions; political; politics; problems; procedure; process; profeti; programme; public; rationalisation; regional; research; reshaping; retiambiente; role; round; services; solutions; specific; spending; state; stefania; strategies; studies; terms; time; tirreno; unions; waste; years cache: ips-95.pdf plain text: ips-95.txt item: #112 of 115 id: ips-96 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: Political science in Italy after the last University reform date: 2019-03-20 words: 7308 flesch: 38 summary: The  Department  of  Political  and  Social  Sciences  is  expected  to  join  forces  with  the  departments  of Law  and  of  Economics  in  order  to  create  a  school  in  continuity  with  the  cultural  inheritance  and  tradition  of 08/07/2013 Italian Political Science: Political science in Italy after the last University reform www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/issue7/political-science-in-italy-after-the-last-university-reform 8/10 the  “Cesare  Alfieri”  Faculty,  the  first  school  of  political  and  social  sciences  in  Italy. In  such  universities,   the  minimum  number  of  department http://www.fscpo.unict.it/europa/glopem/index.htm 08/07/2013 Italian Political Science: Political science in Italy after the last University reform www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/issue7/political-science-in-italy-after-the-last-university-reform 7/10 members  required  by  the  law  is  a  hard  obstacle  to  those  who  want  to  make  homogeneous  social  science departments  staffed  by  political  scientists,  sociologists,  political  philosophers  and  the  other  scientists  of  the Area  14. keywords: academic; courses; departments; different; discipline; economics; faculties; faculty; future; gelmini; history; italian; italy; law; level; milano; new; number; offer; old; opportunity; organization; political; political science; politics; possible; professors; programs; reform; research; resources; role; rules; scenario; science; scientific; scientists; siena; social; sociologists; sociology; students; studies; system; teaching; terms; time; universities; university; www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/issue7/political-science-in-italy-after-the-last-university-reform; years cache: ips-96.pdf plain text: ips-96.txt item: #113 of 115 id: ips-97 author: Panebianco, Stefania title: The Arab Spring: when democracy meets global protest* date: 2019-03-20 words: 5010 flesch: 37 summary: Scholars  of  democracy  are  well  aware  of  what  democracy   is   (or   is  not)  and  have  almost  agreed  on  a distinction   between   democratic   regimes,   authoritarian   regimes   and   post-­authoritarian   regimes,   or ‘democracies   with   adjectives’,   as   Collier   and   Lewitsky   called   them   (1997).   08/07/2013 Italian Political Science: The Arab Spring: when democracy meets global protest* www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/issue7/the-arab-spring-when-democracy-meets-global-protest 1/8 The Professional Review Of The Italian Political Science Association The  Arab  Spring:  when  democracy  meets global  protest* by  Stefania  Panebianco  |  Published  in  issue7  /  Research Not  so  many  events  attracted  the  scholarly  debate  and  the  attention  of  the  wide  public  as  the  Arab  Spring1 did  in  the  last  couple  of  years. keywords: 08/07/2013; actors; arab; area; authoritarian; change; conditions; countries; definition; democracy; democratic; democratization; diffusion; dimension; domestic; forces; global; important; institutions; international; islamic; italian; long-­term; media; mena; mobilization; modelski; new; political; politics; popular; process; processes; protest; public; regimes; role; rossi; scholars; science; social; spring; system; transition; world; www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/issue7/the-arab-spring-when-democracy-meets-global-protest cache: ips-97.pdf plain text: ips-97.txt item: #114 of 115 id: ips-98 author: IPS, Italian Political Science title: Two Italian Political Scientists in the governing body of the European Consortium for Political Research date: 2019-03-20 words: 1524 flesch: 41 summary: 08/07/2013 Italian Political Science: Two Italian Political Scientists in the governing body of the European Consortium for Political Research www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/issue7/two-italian-political-scientists-in-the-governing-body-of-the-european-consortium-for-political-research 1/3 The Professional Review Of The Italian Political Science Association Two  Italian  Political  Scientists  in  the governing  body  of  the  European Consortium  for  Political  Research by  IPS  |  Published  in  issue7  /  Political  science  community An  interview  of  IPS  to  Professor  Simona  Piattoni  (University  of  Trento),  the  new  Chairperson  of  ECPR  and  to Professor  Luca  Verzichelli  (University  of  Siena)  new  Italian  Member  of  the  ECPR  Executive  Committee. http://www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/ http://www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/issue7/two-italian-political-scientists-in-the-governing-body-of-the-european-consortium-for-political-research http://www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/contributors/ips http://www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/issue7/ http://www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/category/political-science-community/ 08/07/2013 Italian Political Science: Two Italian Political Scientists in the governing body of the European Consortium for Political Research www.italianpoliticalscience.eu/issue7/two-italian-political-scientists-in-the-governing-body-of-the-european-consortium-for-political-research 2/3 IPS:  ECPR  in  Europe:    where  it  is  still  weak  and  what  can  be  done? keywords: ecpr; europe; european; experience; good; ips; italian; new; political; research; role; scholars; science; scientists; sessions cache: ips-98.pdf plain text: ips-98.txt item: #115 of 115 id: ips-99 author: Zucchini, Francesco; Giuliani, Marco title: Europeanizing legislatures (and beyond) date: 2019-03-20 words: 1645 flesch: 35 summary: The   research   network,   agreed   on   twelve keywords  (e.g.  European  union,  Single  market,  European  Monetary  system,  etc.)  and  some  abbreviations (like  EU,  ECSC,  EMU,  etc)  that  had  to  be  present  either  in  the  whole  text  (as  in  the  Italian  case)  or  in  the summary/preamble  of  the  law  which,  in  some  countries,  was  extensive  enough  to  sufficiently  represent  the entire  act.   In  the  Italian  case,  the  annual  community act   –   which   largely   delegates   the   implementation   of   EU   directives   to   the   executive   –   and   a   reluctant parliament  further  contributed  to  that  process. keywords: analysis; countries; different; domestic; european; europeanization; italian; law; legislative; legislatures; member; network; new; origin; political; research; scholars; test; union; university; volume cache: ips-99.pdf plain text: ips-99.txt