Title:Reforming Italy: Institutional Change and the Federal Option
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; WILSON, AlexDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Edinburgh Europa Paper SeriesAbstract:The reform of regional government has been a key element in efforts to reform the Italian state. The aims are administrative modernization; national integration; coherent regional development; fiscal responsibility and ...
Title:Online networks of the Italian and German extreme right
Author(s):CAIANI, Manuela; WAGEMANN, ClaudiusDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article applies instruments of social network analysis to a study of communication networks within the Italian and German extremist right. Web links between organizational websites are used as a proxy. Indeed, extremist ...
Title:Party mergers and vote shifts in Italy
Author(s):HANRETTY, ChrisDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Using data from exit polls and two different methods of ecological inference, I demonstrate how Italian voters shifted between 2006 and 2008. Newly merged parties (PdL, PD) were successful in retaining their former voters; ...
Title:Italy: a contested polity
Author(s):RHODES, Martin; BULL, Martin J.; PASQUINO, Gianfranco; VASSALLO, Salvatore; BARDI, Luciano; DIAMANTI, Ilvo; DE CECCO, Marcello; CULPEPPER, Pepper D.; MOLINA, Oscar; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; VANNUCCI, Alberto; PAOLI, Letizia; HIBBERD, Matthew; CARBONE, Maurizio; QUAGLIA, Lucia; RADAELLI, Claudio M.Date:2007Type of Publication:Article
Title:Talking Europe in the Italian Public Sphere
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; CAIANI, ManuelaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Italy has been considered an Euro-enthusiastic country. On the basis of claims analysis as well as semi-structured interviews with key political actors, this article presents a more nuanced image. Permissive consensus has ...
Title:Predispositions to discriminatory immigration policies in western Europe: an exploration of political causes
Author(s):MARTINEZ-HERRERA, Enric; MOUALHI, DjaouidaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We analyze citizens' predispositions concerning policies of immigrant selection and models of immigrant accommodation as observed by the 2002-3 European Social Survey. We focus on some of the EU's major countries, namely: ...
Title:Europeanising Southern Europe
Author(s):BOTETZAGIAS, Iosif; ANDRETTA, Massimiliano; CAIANI, Manuela; BAUDNER, Joerg; BULL, Martin J.; BOLGHERINI, Silvia; CASULA, Clementina; DOBRE, Ana Maria; SEPOS, Angelos; KULAHCI, ErolDate:2005Type of Publication:Article
