292 research outputs found
Il costo della politica: una "via europea" per i costi delle campagne elettorali
No full textTHE COST OF POLITICS.
A “EUROPEAN MODEL” TO FINANCING ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNS?
Andrea Mignone (University of Genoa)
Democratic elections involve a mixture of high ideals and dubious practices. Election campaigns, party organizations, and advertising all costs money. The financing of political life is a necessity, and a problem. The frequency with which new laws concerning campaign and party finance are enacted is testimony to the failure of many existing systems of regulations and subsidies.
The role of money in politics is an issue of daily debate in old and new democracies alike. The ways that parties get access to money can influence the outcome of elections, determine the relationship between party leaders and members, affect the number of women elected and condition the level of public trust as a whole.
The article looks at the strengths and weakness of the different national laws and regulations from a regional perspective. It analyses the problems of enforcement and the opportunities for effective public disclosure of funds.
In “Quaderni di Scienza Politica”, dic. 2005, XII, 3, pp.529-58 (ISSN 1124-7959
Quality Standards as Flexible Instruments of University Governance
No full textQuality Standards as Flexible Instruments of University Governance
Andrea Mignone (University of Genoa)
The University is currently involved in changes that have a potential for transforming its institutional identity. At stake are the University’s purpose, work processes, organization, system of governance, quality processes and financial basis, as well as its role in the political system, the economy and society at large.
These processes link change in the University to change in the environment in which is embedded: in the role of democratic government, in public-private relations, and in the relationship between the local, national, European and international level.
There is a reshaping of institutional purposes and the University jeopardizes its legitimacy by losing sight of its identity and constitutive logic, its distinctive features, functions and achievements as an academic institution. Prevailing trends include fundamental change in the autonomy of the University and in the academic freedom of individual faculty members, in the University’s collegial and disciplinary organization, the unity of research and teaching, who controls specific bodies of knowledge and who defines criteria of excellence and social needs, the structure of departments, degree programs and courses, the relations between those who do research and teach and academic and administrative leaders, and in governments’ commitment to funding universities.
As often before, a period with a potential for radical change also invites speculations about what kind of organized system the University is and how it works, how the University ought to be organized and governed, what consequences different arrangements are likely to have, and how external demands for radical reform may depend on the University’s capacity for self-governance and adaptation.
In: Zakirova G. (ed.), Evaluation Management Models in University Functions and Processes, Almaty, Kauir University Press, 2008, pp. 38.49 (ISBN 9965-734-72-0
EU Studies in Political Science. Rival Interpretations and the Art of Trespassing Borders
No full textEU Studies in Political Science.
Rival Interpretations and the Art of Trespassing Borders
Andrea Mignone (University of Genoa)
The studies of European Union have coincided with an intensification of particular approaches to making sense of the EU political institutions. EU studies are largely based on political science methods and approaches and it has been affected by the tendency within political science to be defined by particular “disciplinary” approaches (notably rational choice). Indeed, the development of EU studies could be seen as focusing on the EU as a “system”, and there has been a proliferation of approaches which seek to make a sense of European integration. While this remains only one part of the picture of EU studies, its growing significance must not be leading to a marginalisation of the inter-disciplinarity or multi-disciplinarity.
Studying the European Union political system, asks us to think anew about political science as a discipline and how its sub-fields are separated or fit together. Theories on international relations have long benefited from the dynamic of European integration. The effort to theorize about the process of European integration began within the political science sub-field of international relations, and the field of integration theory in particular. During the first few decades of the integration process, the literature was essentially divided between (neo)-functionalists (political integration as a spillover effect of economic integration) and intergovernmentalists (national governments as gatekeepers). In recent years, however, there are other approaches to study the European Union, in particular in the fields of international relations (realists, rational choice and historical institutionalists, reflectivists or constructivists) and comparative politics (pluralism, neo-corporatism, transnationalism, multilevel governance studies, Lipset-Rokkan model). In no other substantive area is the relation between comparative politics and international relations so close and their existence as two independent sub-fields so problematic. But they have not distinct conceptual bases or theoretical contributions, so we can hope on the possibility to overcome the divide. The boundaries among the sub-fields of political science are not written in stone. European integration, alongside a variety of global economic and social pressures, has blurred the distinction between domestic and international politics. Among these recent studies, a more specific and original movement has developed around what we will refer as the political sociology of the EU.
Currently, students of EU politics and policy-making are taking up insights from the new institutionalism in political science, sociology, economics. They debate over the relative applicability of International Relations and Comparative Politics for understanding the EU.
The evolution of the studies on EU politics is a far from banal exercise. There are clearly many conceptions of what constitutes “scientific progress” in EU studies. In this essay we do not dispute that approaches from Comparative Politics (CP) can bring added value to the study of the EU. Nor is its intention to suggest that comparisons between the EU and nation states perform no useful function – quite the contrary. The EU contains elements that are irreducibly international, which makes the character of interactions within it fundamentally different from those within national political systems, even federal ones. Largely, though not exclusively, because of the unique nature of states as political actors, politics between them differs in numerous fundamental ways from the politics found within them. Comparative Politics approaches are often based on insights about the nature of politics that are not easily transposable from the domestic to the international realm.
In: Morini M. (ed.), EU-Russia, Genova, Eidon Edizioni, 2010, pp. 49-83
(ISBN 978-88-95677-30-9
Note su gruppi di pressione e partiti
No full textIl contributo esamina elementi di distinzione e aspetti di sovrapposizione tra gruppi di pressione e partiti, intesi come organizzazioni intermediarie tra società e sistema politic
Gruppi di interesse e gruppi di pressione
No full textAntologia di studi comparati sui gruppi di pressione con ampia bibliografi
rappresentanza e politica degli interessi
No full textil saggio analizza il ruolo degli interessi organizzati nei processi decisionali pubblic
La politica degli interessi. I- Gruppi di pressione e lobby. II- Lobby, lobbyists, lobbying
No full textAnalisi del ruolo delle lobbies nel policy makin
L. Graziano, Lobbying, Pluralism and Democracy, New York, Palgrave, 2001
No full textLa recensione illustra il contributo di Graziano allo studio delle lobbies ed alla loro regolamentazion
Frammentazione istituzionale e vincoli decisionali. Il caso delle politiche per l’arte contemporanea in Italia
No full textThe Discussion on European Neighbourhood Policy. Governance Methods and the Question of Building Security
No full textThe paper studies the impact of ENPI on foreign policies in Mediterranean are
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