To cite the article: Casiraghi, M.C.M., Curini, L., Maggini, N. and Nai, A. (2024). Who looks up to the Leviathan? Ideology, political trust, and support for restrictive state interventions in times of crisis. European Political Science Review. DOI:10.1017/S1755773923000401 The article is open access and can be accessed here. Abstract The extent in which voters from different ideological viewpoints support state interventions to curb crises remains an outstanding conundrum, marred by conflicting evidence. In this article, we...

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: Maggini, N. and Vezzoni, C. (2023). The Italian space of electoral competition in pandemic times. Italian Political Science, Volume 17, Issue 1, 34–54. The article is open access and can be accessed here. Abstract The polls on the voting intentions of Italians during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed substantial stability of electoral orientations in the first phase of the pandemic, while they detected a certain fluidity after the birth of the Draghi government, specifically with...

To cite the article: Improta, M. (2023), 'Paralysed governments: How political constraints elicit cabinet termination', Parliamentary Affairs, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsad023. The article, published on Parliamentary Affairs, can be accessed here. Abstract A crucial feature of the democratic life cycle, government stability, has prompted the interest of many scholars across the globe. As a result, research on this matter has established itself as one of the most developed agendas in comparative politics. However, despite the abundance of studies on the drivers of government stability, the ruling...

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...