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Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism: The European Union a Decade After Lisbon
No full textThis article discusses the notion of consociationalism as applied to the EU and assesses whether the institutional and procedural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) and by the management of the Euro and refugee crises still warrant considering the EU as a case of consociational democracy. Our contention is that the changes introduced by the ToL bore the promise to strengthen the consociational structural traits of the Union but that the further institutional and procedural changes engendered by the management of the Euro and refugee crises have made the behavioral dimension of consociationalism all the more necessary just as the accommodating orientation of the political elites had begun to evaporate. We support this argument by looking at empirical evidence which allows us to offer a set of propositions on the effects of the recent crises on the attitudes of the European elites towards the future of EU democracy
The May Regional Elections. Consolidation of the Tripolar System, in M. Carbone and S. Piattoni Italian Politics: Governing under Constraint
No full textAmici come prima? Italy and Germany in times of crisis
No full textThis introduction justifies the decision to focus on Italo-German relations – and in particular on the way in which prejudices and stereotypes affect them – in light of a long history of parallel political and economic development of the two countries and the central role that they are likely to play in the next phase of European integration. After briefly presenting the chapters that compose the special issue, the introduction dwells on the importance of analysing both bilateral and transnational relations at EU level as they reciprocally influence the role that these two major EU member states may play in Europe
Manuale di scienza politica
No full textIl manuale offre un ampio panorama della scienza politica mettendo a fuoco definizione, estensione e missione della disciplina, e illustrandone i contenuti sostantivi. Gli autori non tralasciano poi di registrare i cambiamenti fondamentali che hanno investito la politica e il modo con cui gli scienziati politici la studiano. A tale proposito, connettono il resoconto sulla ricerca scientifica a una serie di eventi e immagini della storia recente che hanno maggiormente contribuito a orientare il dibattito sulle prospettive e sulle sfide della politica globale
Italy and Agricultural Policy
No full textThe chapter provides a brief historical overview that outlines the main features of Italian agricultural policy within the European polity; secondly, it analyzes the changes that came about in the nineties, both within a national and supranational policy context.
The focus of the chapter is on the reconstruction of two case studies (milk quotas in Agenda 2000, and Sugar Cmo's reform in 2005), both indicative of the ways in which Italian agricultural policy is processed in the European arena
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