With the new year, the CISE Seminar Series is back.  The new series will run from September to December 2019. The CISE Seminar Series was born from: 1) the need and interest of the CISE to establish a practice of open discussion for the work in progress of its researchers; 2) the aim to establish and consolidate a network of scientific interaction relating the CISE within the LUISS research community (both in the Department of Political Science and in other departments) and with other universities in the Rome area. As a result, it is open to any researcher wishing to present their...

Traduzione di Elisabetta Mannoni. L'elezione del Parlamento Europeo si è svolta nella Francia metropolitana il 26 maggio (i dipartimenti d'oltremare avevano già votato il giorno prima). 74 i seggi che dovevano essere assegnati, con ulteriori 5 seggi di riserva in caso di Brexit. Le elezioni si sono svolte con un sistema proporzionale, con la soglia minima al 5% (Angelucci e Paparo 2019): solo le liste che superano questa soglia ottengono la possibilità di avere rappresentanti al Parlamento Europeo. Le liste di partito sono chiuse, il che significa che i cittadini votano per una lista, ma non possono esprimere alcuna preferenza...

A multidisciplinary seminar series for empirical research on democratic representation The CISE (Italian Center for Electoral Studies) has set up a new series of weekly seminars. After the first, experimental series of seminars held in Autumn 2018, the new series will run from February to June 2019. The CISE seminars were born from: the need and interest of the CISE to establish a practice of open discussion for the work in progress of its researchers; the aim to establish and consolidate a network of scientific interaction relating the CISE within the LUISS research community (both in the Department of Political Science and in other departments)...