Per citare l’articolo: Chiaramonte, A., De Sio, L. and Emanuele, V. (2020), ‘Salvini’s success and the collapse of the Five-star Movement: The European elections of 2019', Contemporary Italian Politics, DOI:10.1080/23248823.2020.1743475. Scarica l’articolo qui ABSTRACT The European Parliament elections of 2019 in Italy can be considered as a crucial turning point for the national political system. Indeed, both the balance of power among parties and the governmental dynamics were deeply affected by the outcome of the 2019 elections. In a context of notable electoral instability, an almost perfect turnaround...

Per citare l'articolo: Emanuele, V. and Sikk, A. (2020), '​Party crashers? Modeling genuinely new party development paths in Western Europe', Party Politics, DOI:10.1177/1354068820911355. Scarica l'articolo qui Abstract Western Europe has recently experienced the emergence of successful new parties, but while single parties or countries have been extensively studied, insufficient attention has been devoted to this phenomenon from a comparative and long-term perspective. By relying on an original data set covering 20 countries and 344 parliamentary elections, this article presents the first analysis of West European...

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,...

To cite the article: Andrea Capati, Marco Improta & Federico Trastulli (2022) COVID-19 and party competition over the EU: Italy in Early Pandemic Times, European Politics and Society, DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2022.2095170. The article was published on European Politics and Society can be accessed here. Abstract Despite receiving much attention in the literature, existing analyses on the impact of Covid-19 on European societies and politics do not investigate the consequences for party competition over the European Union (EU) dimension. To this end, this article asks whether the pandemic affected the salience of...