Left Governmental Power and the Reduction of Inequalities in Western Europe (1871–2020)

Federico Trastulli

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Federico Trastulli è assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Umane dell'Università degli Studi di Verona ed Extended Faculty presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche della LUISS Guido Carli, dove ha conseguito il titolo di dottore di ricerca nel 2023. Collabora alle attività di ricerca del CISE dal 2020 ed è membro di associazioni professionali nazionali e internazionali come SISP, SISE, CES, IPSA. È stato visiting doctoral researcher presso il CEVIPOF di Sciences Po, Parigi. I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano le varie dimensioni del conflitto politico in Italia e in Europa occidentale sia dal lato dei partiti politici che dal lato del comportamento elettorale, analizzati attraverso una prospettiva multi-metodo. I suoi contributi di ricerca sono stati pubblicati in volumi e in riviste peer-reviewed nazionali e internazionali tra cui Perspectives on Politics, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Modern Italy, European Politics and Society, Frontiers in Political Science, Italian Journal of Electoral Studies. Nel 2024 ha ricevuto il primo Premio 'Mario Caciagli' per il miglior articolo pubblicato su Italian Journal of Electoral Studies, rivista della Società Italiana di Studi Elettorali (SISE). Precedentemente si è laureato in Studi Europei alla London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc) e in Scienze Politiche e Relazioni Internazionali alla Sapienza Università di Roma (Laurea triennale). È su X @fedetrastulli.

To cite the article: Emanuele, Vincenzo, and Federico Trastulli. 2024. “Left Governmental Power and the Reduction of Inequalities in Western Europe (1871–2020).” Perspectives on Politics: 1–20. doi: 10.1017/S1537592724000628. The article is open access and can be accessed here. Abstract Despite considerable attention in the literature, existing studies analyzing the effect of left governmental power on inequalities suffer from three main limitations: a privileged focus on economic forms of inequality at the expense of political and social ones, inaccurate measurements of left governmental power, and the analyses’ narrow time spans. This article addresses such concerns through a comparative longitudinal analysis where the impact of left...

To cite the article: Vincenzo Emanuele & Federico Trastulli (2023) Squeezing Blood from a Turnip? The Resilience of Social Democratic Governmental Power in Western Europe (1871–2022), Representation, DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2023.2292174 The article can be accessed here, first 50 copies free of charge. Abstract In recent years, a growing body of literature has revived its interest in social democratic parties, emphasising their allegedly irreversible crisis in Western Europe. However, all such accounts focus solely on electoral results, thus neglecting governmental power, the decisive factor to realise social democratic parties’ policy goals. To address this gap, the...

To cite the article: Trastulli, F., & Mastroianni, L. (2023). What's new under the sun? A corpus linguistic analysis of the 2022 Italian election campaign themes in party manifestos. Modern Italy, doi: 10.1017/mit.2023.45. The article, published on Modern Italy, can be accessed here. Abstract In this article, we introduce an innovative approach to examining campaign themes in Italy, by performing an original corpus linguistic analysis of the party manifestos related to the crucial 2022 election. Through its systematicity and flexibility, our approach allows us to gauge...

To cite the article:Improta, M., Mannoni, E., Marcellino, C., & Trastulli, F. (2022). Voters, issues, and party loyalty: the 2022 Italian election under the magnifying glass. Italian Journal of Electoral Studies QOE – IJES, Just Accepted. https://doi.org/10.36253/qoe-13956. The article is open access and can be accessed here. Abstract The 2022 Italian election marked a historic victory for the centre-right coalition. This camp was spearheaded by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FDI), with a solid performance of this radical right party across the country. However, considerable nuance emerges by...

To cite the article:Trastulli, F. (2022). Two is Better than One? Testing a Deductive MARPOR-based Left-Right Index on Western Europe (1999-2019). Italian Journal of Electoral Studies QOE – IJES, Just Accepted. https://doi.org/10.36253/qoe-13796. The article is open access and can be accessed here. Abstract Most of the existing indexes measuring parties’ left-right positions through Manifesto Project (MARPOR) data, including the ‘RILE’, share a partially or fully inductive nature and an underlying assumption of left-right unidimensionality. However,...