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dc.contributor.authorVALBRUZZI, Marco
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-04T16:34:55Z
dc.date.available2014-12-04T16:34:55Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationRivista italiana di scienza politica, 2012, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 399-416
dc.identifier.issn0048-8402
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/33753
dc.description.abstract'Throwing the rascals out' (without bloodshed) is considered by many scholars as a fundamental component of representative democracies and, precisely for this reason, this is a topic that political scientists should start to consider more frequently and carefully. Alternation, rotation in office, turnover are concepts too often (mis)used and confused, though not properly analyzed. This is a particularly striking situation if we consider that government alternation has become, in the last twenty years or so, the most frequent method of government change across West European party systems. Following the established tradition of Giovanni Sartori, this article carries out the analysis of the concept of 'alternation' in three distinct steps : anatomy, reconstruction and definition. The last section of the article provides an array of potential and useful indicators of the concept which can be used to illuminate future empirical studies on the antecedents, the consequences and also the precise meaning of government alternation.
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dc.relation.ispartofRivista italiana di scienza politica
dc.titleAlternanza : cosa è
dc.title.alternativeAlternation : what it is
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1426/38614
dc.identifier.volume42
dc.identifier.startpage399
dc.identifier.endpage416
dc.identifier.issue3


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