Una vittoria del centrosinistra, ma in un contesto decisamente turbolento: un aumento dell’astensione, il crollo del centrodestra e l’exploit del Movimento 5 Stelle. Queste in estrema sintesi le direttrici fondamentali con cui interpretare la tornata di elezioni comunali del maggio 2012. Questo primo Dossier CISE raccoglie tutte le analisi sul tema pubblicate sul sito web Cise prima e dopo le elezioni, da cui emergo endono fornire una base di dati per la discussione e l’interpretazione di un risultato elettorale che marca in modo chiarissimo una fase cruciale dell’evoluzione del sistema politico italiano.

Segnalazione bibliografica. European Journal of Political Research, 08/07/11 Autore: Will Jennings Abstract This article develops the reward-punishment issue model of voting using a newly collated aggregate measure of issue competence in Britain between 1971 and 1997, revealing systematic differences between governing and opposition parties in the way citizens' evaluations of party competence are related to vote intention. Using monthly Gallup ‘best party to handle the most important problem’ and vote intention data, time series Granger-causation tests give support to a classic issue reward-punishment model for incumbents. However, for opposition parties this reward-punishment model does not hold: macro-issue competence evaluations are Granger-caused by...

Segnalazione bibliografica. European Journal of Political Research (May 2011), 50: 365–394 Autori: Mark Andreas Kayser, Christopher Wlezien Abstract Numerous studies have demonstrated a weakening identification of voters with political parties in Western Europe over the last three decades. It is argued here that the growing proportion of voters with weak or no party affinities has strong implications for economic voting. When the proportion of voters with partisan affinities is low, the effect of economic performance on election outcomes is strong; when partisans proliferate, economic conditions matter less. Employing Eurobarometer data for eight European countries from 1976 to 1992, this inverse association between partisanship and...