Drawing upon both the “party democratization” and “decline in party membership” literature,
this paper explores how party members perceive the introduction of primary elections as …

Parliamentary questions are often employed by Members of Parliament to demonstrate their
responsiveness to the needs of the constituency. This article takes advantage from this …

The emergence of personalized party organizations has called for a redefinition of the
concept of party institutionalization (PI). This article brings different strands of literature …

Is Euro-voting truly supranational? : national affiliation and political group membership in the
European Parliament / Lorenzo C Page 1 SCIENZA POLITICA 9 Lorenzo Cicchi Is Euro-voting …

This book examines the content of MPs' activities through which parliamentarians generate
representative claims. Challenging the idea that studying individual representation is a futile …

The article focuses on the transformations of political corruption in the last thirty years in Italy.
The purpose of the research is twofold. On the one side, it aims to analyze the type of …

For many years after World War Two, the mass party model dominated Italian politics. High
rates of membership and activism were considered to be essential for optimising electoral …

After the constitutional reform introduced in the Nineties, the Italian Regional Presidents
were endowed with relevant powers and direct legitimacy, so becoming one of the main …

This doctoral thesis reviews the scientific literature on the Italian parliament (studies of
parliamentary sociology and legislative production) and role theory. The aim of the research …

The crisis of political parties in contemporary societies and democracies is composed of
different points of views, that require a joint effort for social and political science to try to …