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Le Four de Sèvres décrit par Hellot
No full textPinto Luca. Le Four de Sèvres décrit par Hellot. In: Sèvres. Revue de la Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique, n°24, 2015. p. 148
Technologie des fours dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Vincennes : une adaptation extraordinaire
No full textPinto Luca. Technologie des fours dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Vincennes : une adaptation extraordinaire. In: Sèvres. Revue de la Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique, n°23, 2014. pp. 62-64
The 2018 Italian general election: a ‘new Italy’ or a ‘dead end’?
Full text linkTo what extent can the 2018 Italian general election be considered as critical? This article examines how the contributors of six volumes published in the aftermath of the election answer this question by focusing on three major dimensions of change in comparison with the 2013 election: changes in the patterns of party competition; changing patterns of voting behaviour in terms of socio-economic characteristics of the electorate; changes in the salience of issue cleavages and in the way new issues affected the electoral outcomes. The picture originating from the volumes under review is not so sharp as that emerging from the literature that flourished after the 2013 election, whereas several contributions stressed the revolutionary traits of that electoral contest. Despite the important changes observed in comparison to 2013, defining the 2018 general election as critical is adequate only to a certain extent
Structural Topic Model per le scienze sociali e politiche
No full textThe study of what social and political actors say and write can improve our understanding of political conflict and social interactions. To this purpose, scholars have developed several automated content methods to analyse large collections of texts. This note focuses on the structural topic model: a machine learning technique aimed at identifying topics in large-scale text collections with extensions that facilitate the inclusion of document-level metadata.
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The Time Path of Legislative Party Switching and the Dynamics of Political Competition: The Italian Case (1996–2011)
No full textPolitical competition is more realistically described as a dynamic process rather than as a series of static stages in which parties compete over policy and government formation. This paper focuses on legislative party switching as the main manifestation of this endogenously evolving process, linking individual switching behaviour to policy and office incentives that are assumed to evolve throughout the life of the entire legislature. Using a new data set tracking the timing of MPs’ changes in party affiliations between 1996 and 2011 in Italy, it is found that switching is mainly motivated by policy reasons and that it is more likely during government formation periods and budget negotiations. These results are a consequence of the interplay between MPs’ ambition and the alternation of key phases in the legislative cycle
Libertà di mandato e party switching. Spunti dalla letteratura politiologica
No full textParty switching – i.e., the defection by MPs from the party under which they were elected, and the switch to another political formation during the inter-electoral period – continues in Italy to record numbers that are unparalleled in international comparisons. The aim of this paper is, first of all, to frame the phenomenon of party switching from a politological point of view and to show its diffusion in a comparative perspective, and then to outline some possible explanations of the Italian specificity in the light of the existing literature on the topic. A review of the constraints that could limit the number of defections will also be presented, framing in this context the “anti-transformism” measures adopted by the Italian Senate with the amendments to the Rules of Procedure approved in 2017
Candidacy rules and party unity: The impact of multiple candidacies on legislative voting behaviour in Italy
No full textA common approach among scholars is depicting electoral democracy as a two-round competition for offices, starting with elections and continuing with the allocation of legislative offices among legislators. But what happens when the allocation of seats does not end at Round 1 (elections), but continues as a first stage of Round 2? This may occur when candidacy rules allow candidates to be nominated and elected in more than one district. Multiple candidacies create a pool of vacant parliamentary seats, whose allocation depends mostly on party leaders’ choices. Multi-candidacies increase therefore the centralization of candidate selection process, granting leaders greater post-election influence and decreasing the incentives to vote against party line for those MPs whose parliamentary office depends mostly on the leaders’ will. Data on legislators’ voting behaviour in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (2006–2011) support this notion
Anti-defection rules and party switching in the Italian Parliament
Full text linkDespite considerable progress in the study of party switching, scholarly interest in institutional constraints explicitly designed to limit or penalise inter-party mobility remains limited in the literature. This paper contributes to the emerging scholarship on party switching and legal institutional constrains by assessing the effectiveness of the new anti-defection regulations introduced in the Italian Senate starting from 2018. To evaluate the impact of this intervention, we develop two quasi-experimental research approaches that take advantage of the bicameral structure of the Italian Parliament and the fact that the anti-defection regulations were only implemented in the Senate and not in the Chamber of Deputies. Our results indicate that anti-defection regulations failed both to limit inter-party mobility and the formation of new legislative parties. However, they results effective in influencing the timing of party switching, concentrating it in the phases of government formation and dissolution
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