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View article: Sartori’s grandchildren: the enduring legacy of a political science founder
Sartori’s grandchildren: the enduring legacy of a political science founder Open
The article focuses on the intellectual legacy of Giovanni Sartori, describing this figure as the “screenwriter” of an innovative project for Italian and European political science. Retracing the stages of Sartori’s journey as an author, a…
View article: The Italian political class: two multilevel datasets on the profiles and opinions of elected politicians
The Italian political class: two multilevel datasets on the profiles and opinions of elected politicians Open
The datasets on the Italian political class provides two sets of information: (a) census data on a broad spectrum of individual-level variables on elected politicians, offering an updated mapping of the characteristics of more than 20,000 …
View article: NextGenerationEU and the European Semester: Comparing National Plans and Country‐Specific Recommendations
NextGenerationEU and the European Semester: Comparing National Plans and Country‐Specific Recommendations Open
This article examines the main features of the Recovery and Resilience Plans (RRPs) that member states have presented to access NextGenerationEU (NGEU) funds, and it explores the relationship between NGEU and the European Semester. Relying…
View article: Behind the technocratic challenge: Old and new alternatives to party government in Italy
Behind the technocratic challenge: Old and new alternatives to party government in Italy Open
The growing presence of technocrats in contemporary governments has emerged as a relevant phenomenon worldwide. Italy, once known as a paradigmatic case of party government and now identified as the promised land of technocracy, constitute…
View article: Strategic framework for the integration of Blended Mobility and Virtual Exchange in Higher Education Institutions
Strategic framework for the integration of Blended Mobility and Virtual Exchange in Higher Education Institutions Open
The Strategic Framework is a set of actions supporting the integration of Blended Mobility (BM) and Virtual Exchange (VE) as regular and consolidated practices within the international activities of Higher Education Institutions across Eur…
View article: The Future of European Political Science
The Future of European Political Science Open
The data briefly presented at the end of the previous chapter summarize the different reactions of the European community of political scientists to the impact of the pandemic in terms of patterns of adaptation. As already shown, a signifi…
View article: The Legacies: Explaining the Richness and Heterogeneity of European Political Science
The Legacies: Explaining the Richness and Heterogeneity of European Political Science Open
Political science is to be considered a relatively new academic subject within the European scenario, having only seen the light of day during the second half of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, as we have seen in Chap. 1 , the discipli…
View article: European Political Science: The Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Relevance of a Divided Discipline
European Political Science: The Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Relevance of a Divided Discipline Open
The study of politics goes back a considerable length of time and is deeply rooted in the evolution of human societies and their beliefs, preferences and worldviews. However, political science, as a specific discipline anchored to theory-d…
View article: The Current Scenario: Mapping Fragmentation and Transformation in European Political Science
The Current Scenario: Mapping Fragmentation and Transformation in European Political Science Open
This chapter offers a comprehensive overview of the state of European political science. Unlike previous selective analyses of the varieties of political science across Europe (for instance, Klingemann, 2007), or recent studies of the evol…
View article: Going technocratic? Diluting governing responsibility in electorally turbulent times
Going technocratic? Diluting governing responsibility in electorally turbulent times Open
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 b…
View article: The Impossible Stability? The Italian Lower House Parliamentary Elite After a “Decade of Crises”
The Impossible Stability? The Italian Lower House Parliamentary Elite After a “Decade of Crises” Open
The article explores recent changes in the Italian parliamentary elite thanks to a novel set of data on Italian MPs between 1946 and 2018. After a first discussion on some crucial long-term trends of Italian Lower House MPs (their turnover…
View article: European Political Science versus the Pandemic: Patterns of Professional Adaptation
European Political Science versus the Pandemic: Patterns of Professional Adaptation Open
The emergence of the COVID-19 outbreak can be considered a potential driver of changes not only in academic disciplines but also, as most observers underline, in the teaching mission of higher education. This raises the main question of th…
View article: The Territorial Representativeness of Italian Ministerial Elites: From the Regional “Parity Norm” to the Rise of Technocrats
The Territorial Representativeness of Italian Ministerial Elites: From the Regional “Parity Norm” to the Rise of Technocrats Open
The territorial composition of governments (that is, the geographical origin of its members) has received little attention from political scientists. However, prime ministers, ministers, and junior ministers clearly have a territorial char…
View article: EUENGAGE Dataset 2016-2018
EUENGAGE Dataset 2016-2018 Open
The EUENGAGE Dataset collects data from the EUENGAGE Project, which ran from 2015 to 2018. For more information on the EUENGAGE Project, please visit the dedicated website: www.euengage.eu It includes data from: The EUENGAGE Mass and Busin…
View article: EUENGAGE Dataset 2016-2018
EUENGAGE Dataset 2016-2018 Open
The EUENGAGE Dataset collects data from the EUENGAGE Project, which ran from 2015 to 2018. For more information on the EUENGAGE Project, please visit the dedicated website: www.euengage.eu It includes data from: The EUENGAGE Mass and Busin…
View article: In search of relevance: European political scientists and the public sphere in critical times
In search of relevance: European political scientists and the public sphere in critical times Open
Social relevance has become a key element to assess the social legitimacy of an academic discipline. This contrasts with a widespread sentiment among political scientists about the existence of a relevance gap. The context of multiple cris…
View article: The Italian Political System at the Test of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan
The Italian Political System at the Test of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan Open
How did the Italian political system respond to the challenges and opportunities of implementing the European Recovery and Resilient Facility? The paper answers this question by charting the research agenda that guides the contributions co…
View article: Technocratic Populism in Italy after Berlusconi: The Trendsetter and his Disciples
Technocratic Populism in Italy after Berlusconi: The Trendsetter and his Disciples Open
Notwithstanding the speculations from the literature, the empirical analyses still neglect the convergence between populism and technocracy. The Italian case can be of some interest in this perspective, given the rise of technocratic popul…
View article: Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism: The European Union a Decade After Lisbon
Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism: The European Union a Decade After Lisbon Open
This article discusses the notion of consociationalism as applied to the EU and assesses whether the institutional and procedural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) and by the management of the Euro and refugee crises still w…
View article: From the Demolition to the Re-Composition of Parliamentary Elites:
From the Demolition to the Re-Composition of Parliamentary Elites: Open
The 2018 Italian general election marked the consolidation of a three-pole party system. However, the contours of parliamentary elites seem to be still in motion. This article aims, at first, to describe the main features of Italian Lower …
View article: Amici come prima? Italy and Germany in times of crisis
Amici come prima? Italy and Germany in times of crisis Open
The introductiry chapter to this special issue justifies the decision to focus on Italo-German relations in times of crisis – and in particular on the way in which prejudices and stereotypes affect them – in light of a long history of para…
View article: The Economic Crisis and its Effects on the Attitudes of Italian Political Elites Towards the EU
The Economic Crisis and its Effects on the Attitudes of Italian Political Elites Towards the EU Open
The Italian case is an interesting one for the study of the effects of the economic crisis on the attitudes of political elites. The crisis has been an important intervening factor in the process of domestic party system change. The respon…