Selected publications from 2008

The following are some recent publications by group members.

by Tom Behan

• T. Behan, Defiance: The Untold Story of One Man Who Stood Up To The Sicilian Mafia, I.B. Tauris, London, 2008, pp214
• T. Behan, See Naples and Die. The Camorra & Organised Crime, I.B. Tauris, London, 2009 [2nd ed.]

by Mark Donovan

• M. Donovan and P. Onofri (eds), Politica in Italia. I fatti dell'anno e le interpretazioni (2008), Il Mulino, 2008
• M. Donovan and P. Onofri (eds), Italian Politics. Frustrated Ambitions for Change, Berghahn, forthcoming.

by Carl Levy

• C. Levy, "`Sovversivismo': The Radical Political Culture of Otherness in Liberal Italy", Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol 123,No. 2, 2007, pp. 147-161
• C. Levy, "The Anarchist Assassin in Italian History, 1870s-1930s", in S. Gundle and L. Rinaldi (eds.), Assassination and Murder in Modern Italy. Transformations in Society and Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, New York and London, 2007, pp, 207-232, ISBN 13: 978-1-4039-8391-6.
• C. Levy, L’État fasciste, antisémitisme et la Shoah: les grands courants historiographiques’, Revue de la Shoah, no. 189, July-December, 2008, pp. 497-510

by Bruno Mascitelli and Simone Battiston

• Mascitelli, B and Battiston, S., The Italian expatriate vote: democratic right, democratic wrong or political opportunism? Ballan, Vic, Connor Court Publishing, 2008.
• Battiston, S and Mascitelli, B., 'Full voting rights for Italian citizens overseas : citizenship gone global, Italianness or Italian party politics?' in Bronitt, S and Rubenstein, K (eds) Citizenship in a post-national world - Australia and Europe compared, The Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, 2008, pp. 1-23.
• Battiston, S and Mascitelli, B 'The challenges to democracy and citizenship surrounding the vote to Italians overseas', Modern Italy, Vol. 13, no. 3, 2008, pp. 261-280.

by Gianfranco Pasquino

• Pasquino, G. "Pourquoi il n'y a pas de social-démocratie en Italie", in Pôle Sud. Revue de science politique de l'Europe méridionale, n. 27/2, pp. 143-157
• Pasquino, G. "Populism and Democracy", in D. Albertazzi e D.McDonnell (eds), Twenty-First Century Populism. The Spectre of Western European Democracy, London,-New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 15-29.
• Pasquino, G. Review of Roberto Gritti e Mario Porcellini (a cura di), Elezioni senza precedenti. Dalle Primarie dell'Unione alle Politiche e al Referendum Costituzionale del 2006: voto, sistemi elettorali e comunicazione, Franco Angeli 2007, in Polis. Ricerche e Studi su Società e Politica in Italia, vol. XXI, Aprile 2008, pp. 158-160
• Pasquino, G. "Gli anni del piombo rosso", in La Rivista dei Libri, vol. XVIII, n. 5, maggio 2008, pp. 8-10
• Pasquino, G. "The Political Context", in J.L. Newell (ed.), The Italian general election of 2006, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2008, pp. 15-32
• Pasquino, G. "Making sense of recent Italian politics", in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 13, n.2, June 2008, pp. 259-264.
• Pasquino, G. "Italy: The Never- ending Transition of a Democratic Regime", in J. Colomer, ed, Comparative European Politics, London, Routledge, 2008, pp. 135-173
• Pasquino, G. "Le dinamiche della transizione italiana", in Futuribili, III Quadrimestre 2008, pp. 173-188.
• Pasquino, G. "The 2008 Italian National Elections: Berlusconi's Third Victory", in South European Society and Politics, vol. 13, n. 3, September 2008, pp. 345-362.
• Pasquino, G. "L'immaginario di sinistra", in Paradoxa, luglio/settembre 2008, pp. 22-29.
• Pasquino, G. "Democratisation and De-democratisation in Italy", in Democratisation and De-democratisation in Europe?, Vienna, Karl Renner Institut-StudienVerlag, 2008, pp. 65-85
• Pasquino, G. "Berlusconi IV", in La Rivista dei Libri", vol. XVIII, n. 11, novembre 2008, pp. 4-6.

Annual PSA meeting in Swansea

The following papers were presented at the annual PSA conference in Swansea.

In the panel on Southern European Exceptionalism and Italy (63):

• Gallo, Ernesto, "From Southern European to Italian exceptionalism?"
• Mastropaolo, Alfio, and McDonnell, Duncan, "Southern European Exceptionalism: different sides of the debate"
• Pasquino, Gianfranco, and Valbruzzi, Marco, "Still an Outlier: Italy in a Southern European Comparative Perspective"

In the panel on Democracy in Southern Europe and Institutional Adaptation (65)

• Casal Bertoa, Fernando, "Party System Institutionalisation in New Democracies: Lessons from Southern Europe"
• Charamboulous, Giorgos, "Rifondazione and Europe: A party competition analysis"
• Stolfi, Francesco, "The Impact of Electoral Systems on the Structure of the Executive: How Electoral Reform Strengthened the Italian Prime Minister"
• Cento Bull, Anna, "The Italian transition and national reconciliation"

"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.