Gli sfidanti al governo Disincanto, nuovi conflitti e diverse strategie dietro il voto del 4 marzo 2018 a cura di Vincenzo Emanuele e Aldo Paparo Per la prima volta in Italia (e in Europa Occidentale) c'è un governo composto integralmente da partiti “sfidanti” (challengers): partiti in contrapposizione con i grandi partiti mainstream, tradizionalmente di governo, e portatori di grandi istanze di rinnovamento. Già, ma da dove viene questo risultato? Tre sono i fattori identificati nelle analisi CISE raccolte in questo volume (basate su analisi dei risultati ufficiali e su dati di sondaggio esclusivi): Il disincanto di un Paese che sembra non solo essere rimasto...

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 Abstract Comparative studies of partisanship lack a comparable transatlantic measure. In the U.S. the traditional ANES measure is used, while in European multi-party systems a party-closeness measure is mostly used. A recent contribution proposed PTV (propensity-to-vote) gap as a potential solution to this issue, showing that the gap in PTV scores between the best- and the second best-placed party has desirable properties in the American case. In this article we test the...

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...