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Segnalazione bibliografica. American Political Science Review 01 August 2011 105: 567-585 Autori: Olle Folke; Shigeo Hirano; James M. Snyder Jr Abstract Does control of patronage jobs significantly increase a political party's chances of winning elections in U.S. states? We employ a differences-in-differences design, exploiting the considerable variation in the dates that different states adopted civil service reforms. Our evidence suggests that political parties in U.S. states were able to use state-level patronage to increase the probability of maintaining control of state legislatures and statewide elective offices. We also find that an “entrenched” party, in power for a longer time, can use patronage more effectively. We...

Authors Alessandro Chiaramonte is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence, Italy.Vincenzo Emanuele is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Luiss Guido Carli in Rome, Italy. Endorsements “Despite the many studies on the crises of Western European party systems over the past three decades, few are theoretically novel and even fewer are characterized by relevant empirical assessments. This groundbreaking book is indeed one of them. Chiaramonte and Emanuele offer an encompassing account of the evolution of party systems in Western Europe, an excellent discussion...

In questo articolo analizziamo la misura in cui le elezioni europee del 2009, svoltesi a seguito della grave crisi dei mercati internazionali, differiscono dalle precedenti. I nostri interrogativi di ricerca riguardano da un lato la presenza di effetti di delegittimazione della UE (attraverso astensionismo, voto di protesta, frammentazione, successo di partiti anti-Europei) e dall’altro lato il risultato dei governi nazionali. Analiticamente, il modello delle elezioni di second’ordine che colloca le elezioni europee all’interno dei cicli elettorali nazionali viene considerato operando una contestualizzazione storica dei risultati delle elezioni europee in otto paesi (Austria, Francia, Germania, Italia, Olanda, Polonia, Regno Unito, Spagna). I dati non mostrano evidenza di un particolare incremento dell’astensionismo elettorale né del voto di protesta rispetto a quanto verificatosi nelle precedenti elezioni europee. Tuttavia le elezioni del 2009 si collocano nelle tendenze di medio periodo verso instabilità e frammentazione e, probabilmente per effetto della crisi economica, si caratterizzano per le particolari difficoltà anche per i governi in carica, compresi quelli che si stanno avvicinando alla fine del loro ciclo elettorale e che quindi, nelle precedenti elezioni di second’ordine ma senza crisi economica, tendevano a recuperare consensi: una dinamica che, sebbene in modo disomogeneo, appare evidente anche dall’analisi dei trend nelle inchieste di opinione.

Aldo Paparo & Lorenzo De Sio (2017) PTV gap as a new measure of partisanship: a panel-data, multi-measure validation showing surprising partisanship stability, Contemporary Italian Politics, 9:1, 60-83, DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2017.1289733 Aldo Paparo, interviewed by Andrea Maccagno (English translation by Elisabetta Mannoni) The basic concept your paper starts from is party identification. What does it mean? CISE Interviews are aimed at spreading CISE research activities, which yield scientific publications in national and international journals. Their format, as an interview to a young CISE intern, allows to present publication contents in a simple form, overcoming difficulties of technical language and often complex statistical tools. The idea of...

While there are many studies on the impact of the economy on elections, there is little evidence on the full mechanism of economic voting implied by performance-based theories of elections. Addressing the scarcity of evidence on the mechanism, this study provides the first estimates of the linkage between macroeconomic performance, individual economic evaluations, and vote choice. Building on recent advances in the statistical analysis of causal mechanisms, we conduct a causal mediation analysis in a data set covering 151 surveys in 18 countries. We find that the effect of economic performance on the incumbent vote is largely accounted for by voters’ retrospective evaluations of the national economy. The effect is stronger in contexts where policymaking power is concentrated rather than dispersed. Altogether, the results imply that the performance-based channel of voting is more relevant in accounting for election outcomes than suggested by recent individual-level studies.