Publications & Resources

2018

Daniele Albertazzi, Arianna Giovannini, and Antonella Seddone. "‘No regionalism please, we are Leghisti!’The transformation of the Italian Lega Nord under the leadership of Matteo Salvini." Regional & Federal Studies 28.5: 645-671. DOI:10.1080/13597566.2018.1512977

 
Giuliano Bobba and Antonella Seddone. "How do Eurosceptic parties and economic crisis affect news coverage of the European Union? Evidence from the 2014 European elections in Italy". European Politics and Society 19:2: 147-165, DOI:10.1080/23745118.2017.1368230

Giuliano Bobba, Cristina Cremonesi, Moreno Mancuso, and Antonella Seddone. "Populism and the Gender Gap: Comparing Digital Engagement with Populist and Non-populist Facebook Pages in France, Italy, and Spain." The International Journal of Press/Politics 23.4: 458-475. DOI:10.1177/1940161218787046

Fabio Bordignon, Luigi Ceccarini e Ilvo Diamanti (eds). Le divergenze parallele. L'Italia: dal voto devoto al voto liquido. Bari: Laterza. Available at: link

Istituto Carlo Cattaneo (ed). Il vicolo cieco: le elezioni del 4 marzo 2018. Bologna: il Mulino. Available at: https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815278272

James Newell. Silvio Berlusconi: a study in failure. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Available at: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719075971/

Giulia Sandri e Antonella Seddone. "Il Partito democratico fra mutamento e assestamento. Cronaca di un anno particolare", in Carolyn Forestiere e Filippo Tronconi (eds). Politica in Italia: edizione 2018. Bologna: il Mulino. Available at: https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815278173

Antonella Seddone e Stefano Rombi. "The Selection of Candidates and Its Impact on Parliamentary Behaviour: Insights from the Italian Case", in Guillermo Cordero and Xavier Coller (eds). Democratizing candidate selection: new methods, old receipts? London: Palgrave Macmillan, 231-253. Available at: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319765495

Luca Tomini e Giulia Sandri (eds). Challenges of democracy in the 21st century: concepts, methods, causality and the quality of democracy. Abingdon: Routledge. Available at:

 

2017

Paolo Chiocchetti. The radical left party family in Western Europe: 1989-2015. Abingdon: Routledge. Available at:
https://www.routledge.com/9781138656185


Luigi Ceccarini and Fabio Bordignon. "Referendum on Renzi: the 2016 vote on the Italian constitutional referendum", South European Society and Politics, advance online publication. DOI:10.1080/13608746.2017.1354421
Daniele Albertazzi. “Forget about Strasbourg, it’s Rome that will make or break the Five Star Movement.” [blog] The LSE Blog. EUROPP, 10 Jan. 2017. Link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/01/10/forget-about-strasbourg-its-rome-that-will-make-or-break-the-five-star-movement/

Daniele Albertazzi (with S. Mueller) ‘Populism and Liberal Democracy: Populists in Government in Austria, Italy, Poland and Switzerland’, in Cas Mudde (ed.) The Populist Radical Right: A Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Link: https://www.routledge.com/The-Populist-Radical-Right-A-Reader/Mudde/p/book/9781138673878

2016

Daniele Albertazzi, "Stop the Drama: Italy's referendum outcome will not lead to the break-up of the EU". [blog] The LSE Blog. EUROPP, 14 Dec. 2016. Link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/12/14/stop-the-drama-italy-referendum/

Arianna Giovannini, Laura Polverari and Antonella Seddone (2016). "Visions of Europe: Emerging challenges for the European project in the aftermath of the 2014 European Parliament elections". Italian Political Science Review, Vol. 46, Special Issue 2 (Special Issue: "The 2014 European Elections: Representation, Euroscepticism, Populism and the Economic Crisis").
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/italian-political-science-review-rivista-italiana-di-scienza-politica/issue/486273C9580F3698556354CB64920B9E

Luca Bernardi, Giulia Sandri, and Antonella Seddone. "Challenges of Political Participation and Intra-Party Democracy: Bittersweet Symphony from Party Membership and Primary Elections in Italy", Acta Politica, 11 March 2016.
DOI: 10.1057/ap.2016.4

Luciano M. Fasano and Antonella Seddone. "Selecting the leader, Italian style", Contemporary Italian Politics, 8:1, 2016, pp 83-102.
Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23248823.2016.1156313

Giulia Sandri and Antonella Seddone (eds). The Primary Game: Primary elections in Italy. Rome: EPOKE Publishing, 2016.
Link: http://www.edizioniepoke.it/prodotto/the-primary-game/

James Newell. “Addressing the democratic crisis Italian style: The constitutional referendum of Matteo Renzi.” [blog] Political Insight. 7 July 2016. Web. 1 Sept. 2016.
Link: https://www.psa.ac.uk/insight-plus/blog/addressing-democratic-crisis-italian-style-constitutional-referendum-matteo-renzi

James Newell. “First Brexit and David Cameron, Now a Referendum Could Claim Italy’s PM.” [blog] Newsweek Europe, 1 Sept. 2016. Link: http://europe.newsweek.com/referendum-could-now-claim-italys-pm-490644

James Newell. “Italy’s looming referendum is giving PM Matteo Renzi sleepless nights.” [blog] The Conversation, 1 Sept. 2016.
Link: https://theconversation.com/italys-looming-referendum-is-giving-pm-matteo-renzi-sleepless-nights-63844

James Newell. “Italy’s Looming Referendum Is Giving PM Matteo Renzi Sleepless Nights.” [blog] The Independent, 16 Aug. 2016. Web. 1 Sept. 2016.
Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-s-looming-referendum-is-giving-pm-matteo-renzi-sleepless-nights-a7193416.html

James Newell. “Matteo Renzi’s election prospects: A work in progress.” [blog] The LSE Blog. EUROPP, 24 May 2016.
Link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/05/24/matteo-renzis-election-prospects-a-work-in-progress/

James Newell and Arianna Giovannini. “Brexit and Italian politics: parallels, warnings and impacts.” [blog] CONGRIPS. 12 July 2016. 1 Sept. 2016.
Link: http://web.apsanet.org/congrips/2016/06/29/brexit-and-italian-politics-parallels-warnings-and-impacts-arianna-giovannini-and-james-l-newell/

James Newell. “The Five Star Movement’s victories in Italy’s mayoral elections: A major blow for Renzi and the PD.” [blog] The LSE Blog. EUROPP, 22 June 2016.
Link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/06/22/the-five-star-movements-victories-in-italys-mayoral-elections-a-major-blow-for-renzi-and-the-pd/

Giulia Sandri and Fulvio Venturino. "Primaries at the Municipal Level: How, How Many and Why", Contemporary Italian Politics, 8:1, 2016, pp. 62-82. Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23248823.2016.1156306?journalCode=rita20#.VyDf_nqigyc

2015

Daniele Albertazzi and Arianna Giovannini. "Surviving the perfect storm: Italy after the 2013 elections". Journal of Contemporary Italian Studies, 20:4, 2015, pp. 427-437 (Special Issue: "Italy after the 2013 elections").
Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1354571X.2015.1066110

Daniele Albertazzi and James L. Newell. "Introduction: A mountain giving birth to a mouse? On the impact and legacy of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy". Modern Italy, 20, 2015, pp 3-10. (Special Issue: "Berlusconi's impact and legacy").
Link: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10049201&fileId=S1353294400002477

Mark Donovan. "Berlusconi’s impact and legacy: political parties and the party system". Modern Italy, 20, 2015, pp 11-24 (Special Issue: "Berlusconi's impact and legacy").
Link: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10049201&next=true&jid=MIT&volumeId=20&issueId=01

James L. Newell and Arianna Giovannini. "The election of the new president has strengthened Matteo Renzi’s grip over Italian politics" [blog]. The LSE blog. EUROPP., 2 Feb. 2015. Link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/02/02/the-election-of-italys-new-president-has-strengthened-matteo-renzis-grip-over-italian-politics/

Giulia Sandri and Stefano Braghiroli. "Religion at the European Parliament: the Italian case", in François Foret (ed.). Religion at the European Parliament and in European multi-level governance, London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 202-224.
Link: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138901179

Giulia Sandri and Antonella Seddone. "Sense or Sensibility? Voting motivations of party members and supporters of the Italian centre-left", Italian Political Science Review, 45:1, 2015, pp 25-513.
Link: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9703823

Giulia Sandri and Antonella Seddone. "La versione del militante. Opinioni e giudizi sulle primarie PD", Quaderni di Scienza Politica, XXIII, no. 3/2015.
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301647471_LA_VERSIONE_DEL_MILITANTE_OPINIONI_E_GIUDIZI_SULLE_PRIMARIE_PD_di_Antonella_Seddone_e_Giulia_Sandri

Giulia Sandri, Antonella Seddone, and Giorgia Bulli. "Party membership in Italy", in Van Haute E., Gauja, A. (eds.). Party membership and activism, London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 117-133.
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285389636_Party_membership_in_Italy

Giulia Sandri, Antonella Seddone, and Fulvio Venturino (eds). Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective. London: Ashgate, 2015.
Link: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781472450388

Antonella Seddone and Fulvio Venturino. "The Partito Democratico after the 2013 elections: all change?". Journal of Contemporary Italian Studies, 20:4, 2015, pp. 474-490 (Special Issue: "Italy after the 2013 elections").
Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1354571X.2015.1066129?src=recsys

2014

James L. Newell. "EU election: first electoral test for new PM Renzi in Italy" [blog] The Conversation, 22 May 2014.
Link: https://theconversation.com/eu-election-first-electoral-test-for-new-pm-renzi-in-italy-25781

James L. Newell. "Italy’s best-ever shot at political reform is no sure thing" [blog] The Conversation, 27 March 2014.Link: http://theconversation.com/italys-best-ever-shot-at-political-reform-is-no-sure-thing-24546

James Newell and Arianna Giovannini. "Matteo Renzi’s transition to power is a gamble not just for his party, but for the Italian political system as a whole." [blog] The LSE blog - EUROPP.
Link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2014/02/17/matteo-renzis-transition-to-power-is-a-gamble-not-just-for-his-party-but-for-the-italian-political-system-as-a-whole/

Giulia Sandri and Stefano Braghiroli (2014). "Religion at the European parliament: The Italian case", Religion, State & Society, 42:2-3, 2014, pp. 227-250.
Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09637494.2014.937144

2013

Duncan McDonnell (2013) "Silvio Berlusconi's Personal Parties: From Forza Italia to the Popolo della Libertà", Political Studies, Vol. 61, Issue Supplement S1.
Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.01007.x/abstract

James L. Newell. "Berlusconi’s surrender over Enrico Letta’s confidence vote could spell the end of an era in Italian politics." [blog] The LSE blog - EUROPP, 7 October 2013.
Link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/10/07/berlusconis-surrender-over-enrico-lettas-confidence-vote-could-spell-the-end-of-an-era-in-italian-politics/

James L. Newell and Arianna Giovannini, "The election of Matteo Renzi as the leader of the PD might herald a ‘New Labour’ style revolution in Italy’s centre-left" [blog] The LSE blog - EUROPP, 19 December 2013.
Link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/12/19/the-election-of-matteo-renzi-as-the-leader-of-the-pd-might-herald-a-new-labour-style-revolution-in-italys-centre-left/

James L. Newell and Arianna Giovannini,  "The PD’s leadership election might signal the first step in the re-legitimation of the Italian political system" [blog] The LSE blog - EUROPP, 8 November 2013.
Link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/11/08/the-pds-leadership-election-might-signal-the-first-step-in-the-re-legitimation-of-the-italian-political-system/

James L. Newell and Arianna Giovannini. "Il PD e le elezioni del suo prossimo leader – riflessioni da oltre Manica" [blog] Questioni Primarie (CALS), 6 November 2013. Link:
http://www.cals.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Questioni-Primarie-3-2013-1.pdf

James L. Newell and Arianna Giovannini. "Cronaca di un leader annunciato, col fattore B", [blog] Questioni Primarie (CALS), 11 December 2013. Link: http://www.cals.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Questioni-Primarie-8-2013-1.pdf

Giulia Sandri, Mario Teló, and Luca Tomini (eds). L'Etat de la démocratie en Italie. Bruxelles: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2013.
Link: http://www.editions-universite-bruxelles.be/fiche/view/2708

Mario Teló, Giulia Sandri, Luca Tomini, and Jean-Michel De Waele (eds.). "The Crisis of Italian democracy in the European context", special issue of Comparative European Politics, 11:3, 2013, pp. 261-382.
Link: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cep/journal/v11/n3/index.html