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Gender and committee assignment in the European Parliament
No full textStudies on female legislative behavior suggest that women parliamentarians may challenge party cohesion by allying across party lines. However, evidence is mixed, and how and why
gender cohesion within the legislature may emerge and whether it is actually a threat to party cohesion are still open questions.
In this chapter we analyze a specific parliamentary activity - bill co-sponsorship - in the Italian lower Chamber, between 1979 and 2016, as a source of information about mps’ original preferences
to study how gender affects party cohesion and gender cohesion. Do women form a separated group in the Italian parliament? On average, are they more or less distant from the center of their parties than men? Does gender affect systematically party cohesion? A principal component analysis of co-sponsorship data allows us to identify the ideal points of all mps in a multidimensional space for each legislature. Based on these data we estimate the impact of gender on party cohesion at the individual level while controlling for the impact of several other variables of different kind (individual, partisan and institutional). We find that:
1) on average, women show lower cohesion as a group inside different parties and higher party cohesion than men; 2) the influence of gender on party cohesion is not conditional upon
individual characteristics, upon the size and organization of parliamentary parties and upon the share of women in their parliamentary groups; 3) the different behavior of women mps may depend on the different patterns of recruitment in the parties
Dividing Parliament? : Italian bicameralism in the legislative process (1987-2006)
No full textItalian bicameralism is a constitutional feature that is quite often the object of criticism from both politicians and scholars. It is also a somewhat neglected topic within Italian political science. The main aim of the present article is to evaluate the level of congruence between the two chambers of Italian Parliament, using original data on legislative activity in the last legislature of Italy’s First Republic (the 10th Legislature) and the last two Legislatures of the Second Republic (the 13th and 14th Legislatures). Regardless of the measurement we employ, our study clearly shows that the congruence between the two chambers has declined. As a careful empirical analysis suggests, this phenomenon cannot be solely accounted for by the difference in distribution of party seats or by changes to the law-making rules in the two chambers. The article hypothesizes that the diminishing intraparty cohesion could be the main explanatory factor of such dynamics
Perchè è importante, perchè è difficile : studiare il legislativo italiano nell'era dell'alternanza
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Teoria della delega e leggi : cenni introduttivi ed esempi di applicazione
No full textThis article aims both to review the crucial features of the principal-agent framework and to show its utility for the research on the legislative process. The principal's attempt to minimize the agency loss in a unidimensional policy space can explain why some delegation relationships prevail. The legislative procedures and the laws are described as delegation relationships, allowing to outline some non trivial hypotheses about the Italian law making and the Italian legislative productio
La Repubblica dei veti : un' analisi del mutamento legislativo in Italia
No full textLa difficoltà a promuovere il cambiamento delle politiche è il principale problema che affligge da molto tempo il sistema politico italiano. Questo libro indaga con gli strumenti della teoria spaziale della politica alcuni fattori che facilitano o ostacolano il mutamento legislativo e il ruolo degli attori politici ed istituzionali artefici del mutamento o della sua assenza. Le caratteristiche del sistema politico italiano della prima repubblica sono rilette alla luce di contributi emersi nella letteratura di politica comparata quando quel sistema era al crepuscolo o già morto. Gli elementi costitutivi di questa rilettura sono poi usati per dare conto del funzionamento del sistema politico nato a metà degli anni '90 e ancora in vita. Teorie che valessero solo per un sistema politico sarebbero infatti cattive teorie. Teorie poco teoriche
An afterword, but not the last word : epilogue
No full textThe articles included in this issue display a healthy scepticism towards any naı ̈ve parallelism between the changes in the party system, the electoral rules or political communication, and the changes that have taken place in the legislative process. The former are linked to the evolution of the legislative process in indirect, complicated ways which merit a more in-depth examination. All articles do share a common view of what the Italian political system is not: Montecitorio is clearly still quite some distance from Westminster. From the legislative perspective, the Italian political system during the second republic still appears to be a moving ‘target’. The comparison between rough legislative figures for the 15th legislature and the equivalent information for previous legislatures does not really help understand in which direction that system is heading
The Oxford handbook of Italian politics : edited by Erik Jones and Gianfranco Pasquino, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, 800 pp., £95.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-966974-5
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