Roads to Rome : how visions of elitism and pluralism shake up the goal repertoire of electoral competition

ANGELUCCI, Davide; DE SIO, Lorenzo; DI COCCO, Jessica; WEBER, Till

doi:10.1017/ipo.2024.28

Roads to Rome : how visions of elitism and pluralism shake up the goal repertoire of electoral competition

dc.contributor.author	ANGELUCCI, Davide
dc.contributor.author	DE SIO, Lorenzo
dc.contributor.author	DI COCCO, Jessica
dc.contributor.author	WEBER, Till
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-24T12:09:25Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-24T12:09:25Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description	Published online: 23 January 2025	en
dc.description.abstract	Electoral competition is typically organized around an evolving set of policy issues. Recent Italian politics suggests a revival of two classic dimensions concerning the mode of interaction that defines the very goals of a polity: elitism (whether goals should be defined from the top down or from the bottom up) and pluralism (whether a polity should only accept widely shared common goals or whether multiple, alternative goals may legitimately compete). While these concerns possibly became less relevant in the heydays of the party government model, recent literatures on populism, technocracy, and process preferences reflect renewed interest. We introduce a two-dimensional elitism–pluralism scheme that explicates the spatial arrangement of top-down and bottom-up visions of party government vis-à-vis models of populism and technocracy. To demonstrate the relevance of the two dimensions for party preference, we turn to the case of the 2022 Italian election, which followed a sequence of a populist, a mixed populist-mainstream and a technocratic government. Voter positions from specialized batteries of the Italian National Election Study are contrasted with party positions from an original expert survey. Findings indicate that preferences on elitism and pluralism complement standard dimensions of issue voting. An explorative analysis of comparative data suggests that many countries across Europe have the potential for similar developments. Electoral competition increasingly reflects concerns about its own principles.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Rivista italiana di scienza politica, 2025, OnlineFirst	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1017/ipo.2024.28
dc.identifier.issn	0048-8402
dc.identifier.issn	2057-4908
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77827
dc.language.iso	en	en
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dc.publisher	Cambridge University Press	en
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dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	en
dc.subject	Elections
dc.subject	Elitism
dc.subject	Goal definition preferences
dc.subject	Italy
dc.subject	Pluralism
dc.title	Roads to Rome : how visions of elitism and pluralism shake up the goal repertoire of electoral competition	en
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