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Nella tavolta rotonda dedicata ai “Cento anni di Giovanni Sartori” al convegno della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Trieste, 12-14 settembre 2024), ho tenuto questo intervento:
At the roundtable dedicated to ‘One Hundred Years of Giovanni Sartori’ at the conference of the Italian Society of Political Science (Trieste, 12-14 September 2024), I gave the speech linked above.
In the aftermath of the 2022 Italian legislative elections, but also during the entire electoral campaign, several claims were made that much of the electoral support for the Five Star Movement had been triggered by the ‘Reddito di cittadinanza’ – the welfare policy introduced in 2019 by the yellow–green government. This research note first distinguishes between distributive politics and policy voting, and then explores the empirical relationship between the geographical provision at the municipal level of the citizenship income and the vote for the party led by Giuseppe Conte. While traditional multivariate analyses fail to reveal any spurious relationship, matching techniques help highlight the absence of any causal relationship between the two variables.
Marco Giuliani (2024). Did the citizenship income scheme do it? The supposed electoral consequence of a flagship policy. Italian Political Science Review 54(1): 101-109
The Council of the European Union is considered to be ‘a consensus machine’. Yet, disagreements still happen at the voting stage, with abstentions, oppositions, and statements defining the positions of national delegations even at the end of long bargaining processes.
This article explores the behaviours of Italian representatives in the Council from 1995 to 2019. The analysis uses roll call data to test expectations emerging from the previous comparative literature in the context of this more demanding single-country research design. Amongst the hypotheses, the results confirm that chairing the Council, and the partisanship of governments on the ideological and EU integration dimensions, are systematically associated with various ways in which opposition and dissent are expressed. Furthermore, we find that caretaker cabinets and government heterogeneity also reduce the likelihood of Italian disagreements in the Council.
Marco Giuliani (2024). Italy in the Council of the European Union: votes and statements, Contemporary Italian Politics, 18(3): 301-320.
