Panel 1: David W. Brady and Arjun  S. Wilkins Secular realignment in the United States 1937-2010: a preliminary analysis Samuel J. Abrams and Morris P. Fiorina Are leaning independents deluded or dishonest weak partisans? Douglas Rivers Party identification in the US over the electoral cycle Panel 2: Roberto D’Alimonte, Lorenzo De Sio and Nicola Maggini Party identification and party system change: Italy between the First and the Second Republic Hermann Schmitt and Paolo Segatti Political parties, left-right orientations and the vote in Italy, France and Germany Panel 3: Piergiorgio Corbetta and Pasquale Colloca Political orientation in times of crisis in Italy: the consequences of job precariousness Radoslaw Markowski Idiosyncrasies of party identification in...

An international scientific conference organized by the CISE, in collaboration with the LUISS School of Government and the ITANES Association - Italian National Election Studies. Rome, 6-7 October 2011 Main Meeting Room LUISS School of Government Via di Villa Emiliani 14 Participants: Paolo Bellucci University of Siena David Brady Stanford University Bruno Cautres CNRS and CEVIPOF - Paris Pasquale Colloca University of Bologna Piergiorgio Corbetta University of Bologna Chistophe Crombez University of Leuven, Stanford University Roberto D’Alimonte LUISS Guido Carli  - Rome Lorenzo De Sio LUISS Guido Carli - Rome Morris Fiorina Stanford University Donald Green Columbia University Bernard Grofman University of California, Irvine Nicola Maggini SUM - Florence Radoslaw Markowski Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities Douglas Rivers Stanford University Hans M.A. Schadee University of Milano-Bicocca Hermann Schmitt University of...