PSA Italian Politics Specialist Group: 2007

Monday, 10 September 2007

"Party Leaders and the Media" - call for papers

UK Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, 1 - 3 April 2008

The Media and Politics Specialist Group and the Italian Politics Specialist Group of the PSA are seeking to organise panels on "Party leaders and the Media":

The ability of political parties to select charismatic, media-savvy leaders is often crucial to electoral success. Scholars have debated the increasing tabloidisation of media outlets, which in turn means that attention-seeking, spectacular initiatives and the use of unorthodox language all enjoy prominence in the media and manage to capture public attention. The process is exacerbated by (and possibly contributes to) the simultaneous, and increasing, disaffection towards traditional party politics shown by large sections of the electorate.

These panels discuss how the media affects key-words, strategies of communication and language employed by political leaders, i.e. what has the media done to leadership. While we are interested in the discussion of single country case-studies, comparative papers will be particularly welcome.

Proposals, in the region of 200 words, should be sent, by 21 September, to Daniele Albertazzi, d.albertazzi@bham.ac.uk.

Sunday, 9 September 2007

Call for papers on southern European politics

UK Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, 1 - 3 April 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

A major theme in comparative European politics in recent years has been the decline of southern European 'exceptionalism' - the theme that various similarities that differentiated the southern European countries from their northern European counterparts have progressively disappeared or at least become considerably less pronounced. In order to explore this thesis (and expecially the factors that may be responsible for it and the sectors in which it does, and does not hold up), the Greek Politics Specialist Group and the Italian Politics Specialist Group are seeking to organise a panel or panels on the theme of southern European politics. Papers focussing on any of the following topics will especially welcome:

Security and/or foreign policy

Public administration and/or the welfare state

Party and electoral politics

Papers may have a case-study focus, and thus focus on one southern European country, or else they may focus on more than one country.

Proposals, in the region of 200 words, should be sent, by 21 September, to Dimitris Tsarouhas, Antonios Aggelakis and James Newell

Monday, 16 April 2007

Papers presented at the Bath PSA conference (#1)

Here just some of the papers presented at the recent annual PSA conference in Bath. More papers to follow...

National identity and immigration: the case of Italy
Croci, Osvaldo, The Prodi government one year on: A new foreign policy or the same wrapped up differently?
Fella, Stefano, and Bigot, Giulia, Immigration and Nationality reform under the second Prodi government - the Amato reform on citizenship.
Conti, Nicolo, Stay In Or Stay Out? The role of small parties in the Italian centre left.
Floridia, Antonio, The paradoxes of possible electoral reforms.
Roncarolo, Franca, The weak consent. Strategies of communication and styles of government in the second Prodi government.

Tuesday, 3 April 2007

Group ABM in Bath

The annual Business Meeting of the UK Political Studies Association's (PSA's) Italian Politics Specialist Group will take place at the PSA annual conference in Bath on 12 April.

Time 13:00
Venue: room 8W2.8

We look forward to meeting those of you who will be at the PSA this year. Any items to be placed on the ABM Agenda should be emailed, by this Friday (6th) to Jim Newell.

In addition, if you have not yet replied to the earlier invitation to be present at the Specialist Group's annual dinner and you would like a place reserving for you, again, Jim would appreciate hearing from you by Friday. The dinner will take place on 11 April at 20:00, at Same Same But Diferent, 7a Princes Buildings (off George Street).

Thursday, 22 February 2007

XI Convegno SISP: Catania, 20-22 September 2007

Il prossimo Convegno SISP si terrà a Catania dal 20 al 22 settembre 2007. Sul sito web della SISP, nella pagina di presentazione del Congresso annuale, ci sono le linee guida con l'indicazione di tutte le prossime scadenze. Anche il programma preliminare del Congresso è in rete.
Entro il 31 gennaio 2007 si possono presentare proposte di Sezioni Tematiche di panels. Ogni sezione è organizzata da un coordinatore che riceve e seleziona le proposte di panels. Le proposte di sezione tematica devono essere inviate via e-mail alla Segreteria SISP e contenere il nome del coordinatore, una breve descrizione del tema ed ogni informazione utile a valutarne la rilevanza. Il coordinatore deve avere un'esperienza ampia e riconosciuta nell'area tematica proposta. Deve, inoltre, accettare di svolgere la sua funzione secondo le linee guida definite nella Presentazione del Congresso.

Recently published (Jan. 2007)

Allum, F. (2006): Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen, Organized Crime in post-war Naples. Northern Universities Press.
Giannetti, D. and Elisabetta De Giorni (2006): “The 2006 Italian general elections: issues, dimensions and policy positions of political parties”. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume 11(4).
Newell, J.L (2006): “The Italian election of May 2006: Myths and realities”. West European Politics, Volume 29(4).
Pappalardo, A. (2006): “Italian bipolarism and the elections of 2006. End of the line or just a connecting stop?” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume 11(4).
Pasquino, G. (2006): “The Italian political system after the 9 – 10 April 2006 elections”. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume 11(4).

Monday, 12 February 2007

Papers presented at PSA conference in Leicester, 2003

The following papers on Italian politics were presented at the PSA's Annual Conference, held in Leicester between the 15th and 17th April 2003.

Decentralisation Reforms in France and Italy
(panel organised in conjunction with the French Politics Specialist Group)

Chair: Robert Elgie (Dublin City)
Discussant: Charlie Jeffery (Birmingham)

Alistair Cole (Cardiff): “Decentralisation in France: Back to Grass Roots or Steering at a Distance”.
Paul Furlong (Cardiff): “The Constitutional Context of Reform in Italy”
Susan Milner (Bath): “Urban governance and local democracy, a case study of Lille”

Italian Politics I: Party Politics at the National and Sub-National Levels

Chair: Jim Newell (Salford)
Discussant: Gianfranco Pasquino (Bologna)

Simon Parker (York) & Duncan McDonnell (York): “Devolution or Neo-Centralism? Centre Left City Governments in Centre Right Regions: The Cases of Venice and Genoa”
Vincenzo Arnone (Fucam, Belgium), Florence Terranova (Exeter) & Luca Blasi (La Sapienza): “Convergence and Divergence Among Political Coalitions: A Multi-Criteria Analysis applied to the Last Italian Elections”

Italian Politics II: the Second Berlusconi Government

Chair: Jim Newell (Salford)

Gianfranco Pasquino (Bologna): “The Government, the Opposition and the President of the Republic Under Berlusconi”
Osvaldo Croci (Memorial, Canada): “The Second Berlusconi Government and Italian Foreign Policy”
Franca Roncarolo (Turin): “The use of communication as a political resource by Berlusconi”

Presidentialism in France and Italy
(panel organised in conjunction with the French Politics Specialist Group)

Chair: Robert Elgie (Dublin City)
Discussant: Paul Webb (Sussex)

Ben Cliff (Brunel): “The Presidentialisation of the French Polity: Structural and Contingent”
Mark Donovan (Cardiff): “Semi-presidentialism in Italy: From Taboo to Taboo”

Heading Towards Oblivion? Changing Fortunes of the Lega Nord

Chair: Mark Donovan (Cardiff)
Discussant: Jim Newell (Salford)

Daniele Albertazzi (Christ Church, Canterbury): “Difference and Identity in the Lega’s Propaganda. Two Content Analyses”
Benito Giordano (Manchester): “The Anatomy of Decline of the Lega Nord in Veneto: Transitory or Terminal?”

Political Corruption and Organised Crime in Italy

Chair: Mark Donovan (Cardiff)
Discussant: Daniele Albertazzi (Christ Church, Canterbury)

Jim Newell (Salford): “Corruption Mitigating Policies in Italy”
Felia Allum (Bath): “The Struggle Against Organised Crime in Italy”

Papers presented on Italian politics in Aberdeen, 2002

The following papers were presented at specialist group panels at the Political Studies Association's 52nd Annual Conference in Aberdeen, between the 5th and 7th April 2002.

Transition in Italian Politics I

Mi-Kyung Kim (Texas A&M University): ‘Government Stability, Public Debt and Italian Electoral Reform: An Intervention Time Series Analysis (1994-2000)’.
Mark Donovan (University of Wales, Cardiff): ‘Italy: Rebuilding the Nation State’.

Transition in Italian Politics II

Anna Bull (University of Bath): ‘Towards a federal state? Competing proposals for reforming Italy’ s centre-periphery relations’.
Carl Levy (Goldsmiths College, London): ‘Italian Regionalism 1992-2002’.

Transition in Italian Politics III

Osvaldo Croci (Memorial University of Newfoundland): ‘Italian foreign policy in the 1990s’.
Luca Ratti (University of Wales, Cardiff): ‘Continuity and consensus in Italian foreign policy’.

Transition in Italian Politics IV

Benito Giordano (University of Manchester): ‘The May 2001 general election in Italy and the demise of the Northern League’.
Mark Donovan (University of Wales, Cardiff): ‘Berlusconi, strong government and the Italian state’.

Members of the Specialist Group

Name: Daniele Albertazzi
University: The University of Birmingham
Position: Senior Lecturer in European Media
Address: The University of Birmingham
Centre for European Languages and Cultures
Ashley building
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
Telephone: +44 (0)121 4147 503
E-mail: d.albertazzi@bham.ac.uk
Research interests: Political communication; Western European populism.
Name: Percy Allum
University: Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples
Position
Address
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E-mail: p.allum@tiscalinet.it
Research interests
Name: Geoff Andrews
University: Open University
Position
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E-mail: G.L.Andrews@open.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Tom Behan
University: University of Kent at Canterbury
Position
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E-mail: T.H.Behan@ukc.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Prof Richard Bellamy
University: Reading University
Position
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E-mail: r.p.bellamy@reading.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Prof Anna Bull
University: University of Bath
Position: Professor of Italian Studies, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages
Address
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E-mail: a.bull@bath.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Prof. Martin J. Bull
University: University of Salford
Position
Address
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E-mail: m.j.bull@salford.ac.uk
Research interests: Contemporary Italian Politics
The Italian Communist Party
The Political Left
Name: Sonia Bussu
University: London School of Economics
Position: MPhil/PhD student
Address
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E-mail: S.bussu@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: Italian politics; Urban governance; Participatory democracy.
Name: Dr Donatella Campus
University: University of Bologna
Position
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E-mail: dcam@interfree.it
Research interests
Name: Prof. Giliberto Capano
University: University of Bologna
Position
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E-mail: gcapano@sun1.spfo.unibo.it
Research interests
Name: Eero Carroll
University: SOFI, Stockholm University
Position
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E-mail: Eero.Carroll@sofi.su.se
Research interests
Name: Prof. Roberto Cartocci
University: University of Bologna
Position
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E-mail: cartocci@ats.it
Research interests
Name: Prof. Luciano Cheles
University: University of Poitiers, France
Position: Professor of Italian Studies
Address
Telephone
E-mail: cheles@noos.fr
Research interests: Italian propaganda and political communication, from Fascism to the present.
Name: Dr. Alastair Clark
University: Queen's University, Belfast
Position: Lecturer
Address
E-mail: a.j.clark@qub.ac.uk
Research interests: Comparative political parties and party organisation; comparative party systems; electoral and local politics; and political participation
Name: Rino Coluccello
University: Coventry University
Position
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E-mail: s.coluccello@coventry.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Nicolò Conti
University: Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCAP), University of Siena
Position: Research Fellow
Address: Via Mattioli, 10 53100 Siena, Italy
Telephone
E-mail
Research interests: Parties and party systems, Europeanisation, Euroscepticism research projects Domestic elites and their attitudes toward the EU teaching Comparative Politics, Methodology for the Social Sciences, Italian Politics
Name: Prof. Oslvaldo Croci
University: Memorial University, Newfoundland
Position
Address
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E-mail: ocroci@mun.ca
Research interests
Name: Prof. Donatella della Porta
University: University of Florence
Position
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E-mail: dellaporta@mail.unifi.it
Research interests
Name: Prof. Mario Diani
University: University of Trento
Position: Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Research
Address
Telephone
E-mail: mario.diani@soc.unitn.it
Research interests: social movements and collective action theory;
the network analysis of political processes;
environmental politics;
ethnonationalist movements;
social capital
Name: Alessia Donà
University: University of Siena
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E-mail
Research interests
Name: Dr Mark Donovan
University: Cardiff University
Position
Address: Cardiff University
School of European Studies
PO Box 908
CARDIFF CF10 3YQ
UK
Telephone: +44-(0)29-2087-4727
E-mail: Donovan@Cardiff.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Phil Edwards
University: University of Salford
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E-mail
Research interests: Protest cycles and political change
Radical social movements of the 1960s and 1970s
The uniqueness of the Italian Communist Party
Name: Ilaria Favretto
University: Kingston University
Position
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E-mail: I.Favretto@Kingston.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Dr John Foot
University: UCL
Position
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E-mail: j.foot@ucl.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Ernesto Gallo
University: University of Turin / Univ. of Birmingham
Position: Post-doctoral student, dept. of Politics / Visiting Lecturer, Department of Italian Studies
Address
Telephone
E-mail: e.gallo@bham.ac.uk
Research interests: international relations theory;
historical sociology and change (Italy, Spain);
European federalism and globalisation;
political thought (Machiavelli, Gramsci, Bobbio).
Name: Walter Geerts
University: University of Antwerp, Belgium
Position
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E-mail: walter.geerts@pandora.be
Research interests
Name: Dr Benito Giordano
University: University of Manchester
Position
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E-mail: benito.giordano@man.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Dr David Hine
University: Oxford University
Position
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E-mail: david.hine@chch.ox.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Dr Jonathan Hopkin
University: University of Birmingham
Position
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E-mail: J.R.Hopkin@bham.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: James Martin
University: Goldsmiths College, University of London
Position
Address: Department of Social Policy & Politics
Goldsmiths College
University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
Telephone: 0207 919 7754
E-mail: j.martin@gold.ac.uk
Research interests: Italian political thought and ideologies (20th C.)
Liberal socialism
Italian Communism
The Resistance and anti-Fascism
The Italian State (20th C.)
Name: Bruno Mascitelli
University: Swinburne University
Position
Address
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E-mail: BMascitelli@groupwise.swin.edu.au
Research interests
Name: William McMurtrie
University
Position
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E-mail: wmcmurtrie@hct.ac.ae
Research interests: The
rediscovery of Spinoza within leftist political philosophy (Althusser,
Balibar, Badiou .../ Deleuze, Negri, Virno ..).
Name: Caterina Paolucci
University: European University Institute
Position
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E-mail: cpaolucci@inwind.it
Research interests
Name: Prof. Gianfranco Pasquino
University: University of Bologna
Position
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E-mail: gfrpsq@tin.it
Research interests
Name: Prof. Simona Piattoni
University: University of Trento
Position
Address
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E-mail: simona.piattoni@soc.unitn.it
Research interests
Name: Nana Rodaki
University: Lancaster University
Position: PhD student
Address: County South,
Lancaster University,
Bailrigg,
Lancaster LA1 4YD,
UK
Telephone
E-mail: a.rodaki@lancaster.ac.uk
Research interests: Cultural Political Economy,Information Age, the Knowledge-based economy
Name: Sarah Rose
University: University of Birmingham
Position
Address
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E-mail: sarahrose@slr17.freeserve.co.uk
Research interests
Name: Prof Carlo Ruzza
University: Essex University
Position
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E-mail: cruzza@essex.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Darrow Scheter
University: Sussex University
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E-mail
Research interests
Name: Daniela Sicrelli
University: Trento University
Position
Address
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E-mail: dsicurel@hotmail.com
Research interests
Name: Francesco Stolfi
University: University College Dublin
Position: Research Fellow
Address: School of Politics and International Relations
Belfield - Dublin 4
Telephone: +353-1-7167502
E-mail: fstolfi@ucd.ie
Research interests: Fiscal Policy
Fiscal Federalism
Public Administration Reform
Core Executive
Name: Luigina Toscano-Davies
University: Cardiff School of European Studies, Cardiff University
Address: Cardiff University

65-68 Park Place

Cardiff CF10 3AS

Wales UK
E-mail: toscanol@cf.ac.uk
Research interests: Female employment policy in Europe and Italy
Name: Christina Ujma
University: Loughborough University
Position
Address
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E-mail: C.Ujma@lboro.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Prof. Luca Verzichelli
University: University of Siena
Position
Address
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E-mail: verzichelli@unisi.it
Research interests
Name: Paul Webb
University: Sussex University
Position
Address
Telephone
E-mail: P.Webb@sussex.ac.uk
Research interests
Name: Manuela Williams
University: Strathclyde University
Position: Lecturer in Modern European History
Address: University of Strathclyde

McCance Building

16 Richmond Street

Glasgow

G1 1XQ
Telephone: +44 141 548 2231
E-mail: manuela.williams@strath.ac.uk
Research interests: Italian and European political history (20th C.)

Propaganda and political communication

Political and social history of the Middle East (20th C.)

Intelligence and international security and conflicts

Sunday, 11 February 2007

Executive Committee 2009 - 2011

Co-Convenor and Secretary: Daniele Albertazzi (d.albertazzi@bham.ac.uk);

Co-Convenor and Conference Officer: Duncan McDonnell (duncan.mcdonnell@unito.it);

Chair: Paul Furlong (furlongp@cardiff.ac.uk);

Treasurer: Jim Newell (j.l.newell@salford.ac.uk);

Membership Secretary: Mark Donovan (donovan@Cardiff.ac.uk);

Communications and Postgraduate Officer: Chris Hanretty (chris.hanretty@eui.eu);

Congrips Liason Officer: Maurizio Carbone (m.carbone@lbss.gla.ac.uk).

Group founded in July 2001 by Felia Allum and Jim Newell.

Monday, 10 September 2007

"Party Leaders and the Media" - call for papers

UK Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, 1 - 3 April 2008

Sunday, 9 September 2007

Call for papers on southern European politics

UK Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, 1 - 3 April 2008

Monday, 16 April 2007

Papers presented at the Bath PSA conference (#1)

Tuesday, 3 April 2007

Group ABM in Bath

Thursday, 22 February 2007

XI Convegno SISP: Catania, 20-22 September 2007

Recently published (Jan. 2007)

Monday, 12 February 2007

Papers presented at PSA conference in Leicester, 2003

Papers presented on Italian politics in Aberdeen, 2002

Members of the Specialist Group

Sunday, 11 February 2007

Executive Committee 2009 - 2011

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