Tag: West European Politics

To cite the article: Emanuele, V., Improta, M., Marino, B., and Verzichelli, L. (2022) Going technocratic? Diluting governing responsibility in electorally turbulent times, West European Politics, DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2022.2095494 The article, published on West European Politics, can be accessed here Abstract Technocracy has recently triggered growing scholarly interest, especially as an alternative form of ruling to both party government and populism. In the context of weakened parties-citizens links and increasing external constraints faced by Western European ruling parties, technocratic appointments might help deal with...

A new book edited by Lorenzo De Sio and Romain Lachat has been just published by Routledge; information is available here. The book presents the results of the Issue Competition Comparative Project (ICCP) (data and documentation is openly accessible and available free of charge through the ICCP and GESIS websites), which analysed six elections in six important European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and UK) between 2017 and 2018 through a focus on post-ideological issue competition, leveraging a fresh theoretical perspective – and innovative data collection and analysis methods – emerging from issue yield theory. The contributors to this volume cast...

Sei importanti paesi al voto tra 2017 e 2018, 40 partiti, ma soprattutto due anni e mezzo di lavoro da parte di 21 studiosi da 13 diverse università europee e americane, coordinati dal CISE in un progetto diretto da Lorenzo De Sio. Sono questi i numeri dell'Issue Competition Comparative Project: un progetto che ha mostrato come, in un contesto sempre più post-ideologico, la competizione partitica vada ormai letta in termini di posizioni e credibilità su specifici temi d'attualità e di policy. E' questa l'impostazione di fondo che ha ispirato il disegno generale di questa...