Segnalazione bibliografica. European Journal of Political Research, online version Autore: Markus Wagner Abstract Parties have an incentive to take up extreme positions in order to achieve policy differentiation and issue ownership, and it would make sense for a party to stress these positions as well. These incentives are not the same for all issues and all parties but may be modified by other strategic conditions: party size, party system size, positional distinctiveness and systemic salience. Using manifesto-based measures of salience and expert assessments of party positions, the findings in this article are that parties emphasise extreme positions if, first, they are relatively small...

D’ALIMONTE, R. D. R., & S, V. (2006). Chi è arrivato primo? In ITANES (Ed.), Dov’è la vittoria? (pp. 13–34). Bologna: Il Mulino.

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.

The economic crisis, the fall of the Berlusconi government and the birth of the technocratic government led by Mario Monti have produced several changes in the Italian political system. Certainly, one of the most important innovations in the context of Italian politics has been the emergence of the Five Star Movement. Such a new party has achieved spectacular overnight success in several elections at sub-national level, and now it is the most voted party in the 2013 national elections. The Five Star Movement combines antiestablishment rhetoric with demands for political reform. The article analyses the electoral growth of the Five Star Movement using both aggregate data and individual data from “Osservatorio Politico CISE” (i.e. cross-section and panel surveys conducted from November 2011 to March 2013). In particular, the author investigates whether the profile of the supporters of the Five Star Movement has changed over time, both from a political and a social standpoint. Finally, the author analyses what factors influence the electoral choice for the Five Star Movement, also from a longitudinal perspective.