Dall'Europa alla Sicilia Elezioni e opinione pubblica nel 2017 a cura di Vincenzo Emanuele e Aldo Paparo Da metà marzo a metà ottobre del 2017, Paesi Bassi, Francia, Regno Unito, Germania e Austria hanno tenuto le loro elezioni. Ciò ha fornito un'opportunità eccezionale per mappare l’opinione pubblica in questi paesi nel contesto particolarmente turbolento, che il referendum sulla Brexit e l'elezione di Donald Trump esemplificano. Per sfruttare questa opportunità, il CISE ha lanciato un innovativo progetto di ricerca comparato per valutare empiricamente, prima delle elezioni, le preferenze dei diversi elettorati; individuare le strutture delle opportunità dei partiti politici; e interpretare i risultati...

The article was published on Italian Political Science can be accessed here. Abstract In recent times, technocratic transformations occurring in the governmental arena of European political systems have prompted growing scholarly interest. This study aims to contribute to this flourishing research agenda by examining the features of Italian technocratic ministers, the underpinnings of their government involvement, and the trajectories they have followed after ruling responsibility from 1948 to 2021. The main findings of the study show that: (a) there is a clear gendered pattern in technocratic appointments; (b) university professors are...

Alessandro Chiaramonte, Vincenzo Emanuele, Nicola Maggini, Aldo Paparo, Populist Success in a Hung Parliament: The 2018 General Election in Italy, South European Society and Politics, DOI:10.1080/13608746.2018.1506513. ABSTRACT The 2018 Italian general elections were a crucial test to assess the resilience of mainstream parties vis-à-vis the challenge provided by populist forces and the stabilisation of the tripolar party system emerged in 2013. The article analyses the outcome of the election, whose most remarkable result was the unprecedented success of two populist parties, the M5S and the Lega, by focusing on key aspects such as the new electoral system, the coalition-building process, the electoral...

Per citare l’articolo: Paparo, A., De Sio, L., & Brady, D. W. (2020). PTV gap: A new measure of party identification yielding monotonic partisan attitudes and supporting comparative analysis. Electoral Studies, 63, 102092, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2019.102092 Scarica l'articolo qui. Abstract: Despite the cornerstone role of party identification for analyzing voting behavior in the United States, its measurement (in terms of the classic American National Electoral Studies – ANES – seven-point scale) is affected by a systematic problem of non-monotonicity,...