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Apr 23, 2025
Panzano, Guido; Marini, Sofia, 2025, "Replication Data for: Italy's democratic quality and the role of political parties: comparative empirical patterns", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PTQFP6, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Italy is considered a thorny case for comparativists, as its unique political and party system features often make it stand out among liberal democracies. A prominent tradition has been studying Italy’s democratic quality. However, such analyses need to be improved and updated, especially to incorporate recent trends, systematically compare Italy w... |
Mar 23, 2025
Cova, Joshua, 2025, "Replication Data for: A new database for Italian parliamentary speeches. Introducing the ItaParlCorpus dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RCKMDA, Harvard Dataverse, V1
A common challenge in studying Italian parliamentary discourse is the lack of accessible, machine-readable, and systematized parliamentary data. To address this, this article introduces the ItaParlCorpus dataset, a new, annotated, machine-readable collection of Italian parliamentary plenary speeches for the Camera dei Deputati, the lower house of P... |
Mar 23, 2025
Biancalana, Cecilia; Mancosu, Moreno, 2025, "Replication Data for: Is the public legitimacy of protests rooted in the political context? An experimental study comparing protests by environmentalists and farmers", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4DD9VC, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:DTbsAa424DDEVgjXA/XlLw== [fileUNF]
What are the characteristics of a political protest that enable it to win public support, and what is the role of the political environment? The literature has argued about the characteristics that induce the public to sympathize with protesters (such as the identity of the protesters, their demands, and their methods), but little research has focu... |
Mar 2, 2025 - Harvard Dataverse
Cavalieri, Alice; Kushi, Alda; Russo, Federico, 2025, "Replication Data for: Under Pressure: Institutional frictions and issue characteristics as determinants of issue responsiveness in Parliament in times of crisis", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HAM7MJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:BPM1KoWoRsHjUCXuFFS71w== [fileUNF]
Parliaments are the intermediate link in the representative chain connecting citizens to the government. The parliamentary agenda is often seen as highly responsive because public priorities are usually mirrored in parliamentary debates. However, the level of responsiveness is affected by formal and informal rules of each activity, which considerab... |
Jan 27, 2025
Corda, Tiziana; Casiraghi, Matteo, 2025, "Replication Data for: The party politics of diplomatic engagements: Evidence from Italy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/X8FUK8, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:KkSxyyabHKj9xVQAdbIL0g== [fileUNF]
Leaders decide to engage diplomatically with their foreign peers for various reasons but, given their limited time and resources, they have to choose which peers to prioritize. As such, the study of international diplomatic visits helps shed light on a government’s foreign policy approach and better understand its priorities in how it conceives and... |
Jan 3, 2025
Gambacciani, Paolo; Pedrazzani, Andrea; Pinto, Luca, 2025, "Replication Data for Waving the same flag? Government legislation and obstructionism during the COVID-19 crisis in Italy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AKDFQF, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This study examines the amendatory activities of the majority and opposition parties in the Italian 18th legislature (2018-2022) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Following the rally around the flag hypothesis, we test whether both sides exhibited similar legislative behaviour during emergencies. We exploit an original database covering... |
Dec 13, 2024
Piacentini, Francesco; Francesco Molteni; Marco Maraffi, 2024, "Replication Data for: Religion, identity, and party preference: The role of Catholicism in the 2022 Italian National elections", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BELOTU, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:18V7+biirP7FD6FlxR17Gw== [fileUNF]
This paper contributes to the debate on the role of religiosity in party competition in democratic political systems by analyzing the role of religious practice and belonging in the 2022 Italian elections. By using the newest ITANES dataset, we combine indicators of both religious affiliation and practice to show how the electorates of the main Ita... |
Dec 12, 2024
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart; Hopkin, Jonathan, 2024, "Replication Data for: Private funding, party politics and regulatory change: how the British Conservative Party prospered under Labour’s political finance reforms", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZTXM6T, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:d1ly2ryJoouYPCPazcls6Q== [fileUNF]
Before 2000, the UK operated one of the most liberal political finance regimes of any established democracy. Parties were highly dependent on private financing, state funding was minimal, limited transparency requirements existed with respect to party income or expenditure, and no limits applied to national election spending. Far-reaching reforms i... |
Dec 10, 2024
Caponio, Tiziana; Pettrachin, Andrea; Ponzo, Ilaria, 2024, "Replication Data for: The drivers of multilevel governance as a mode of policymaking. The case asylum seekers’ reception in Italy.", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SEEI3Z, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This article analyses modes of policymaking related to asylum-seekers’ reception in Italy and other EU countries during the decade of the so-called 2015 asylum crisis. It shows that, while most EU countries experienced shifts towards more hierarchical modes of policymaking on asylum, Italy pursued a unique experience of multilevel governance (MLG)... |
Dec 5, 2024
Boldrini, Matteo; Grimaldi, Selena, 2024, "Replication Data for: Climbing up, letting down, or putting the ladder away? Regional ministers’ movements in multilevel systems", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YBFUBN, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:sm7flZ2NwVkJgrubBj6cwA== [fileUNF]
Regional cabinet members (RCMs) are key political actors in subnational politics, especially in federal systems or in countries that have undergone a process of regionalization or devolution, even though they are still less studied than federal or national ministers. Italy and its regionalization process represent an interesting case study to under... |