Position-taking, Information, or Institutions? Why Italian government bills change in the legislative arena (1987-2006)
Tesi di Dottorato
Data di Pubblicazione:
2011
Citazione:
Position-taking, Information, or Institutions? Why Italian government bills change in the legislative arena (1987-2006) / A. Pedrazzani ; tutor: Francesco Zucchini ; coordinatore del dottorato: Marco Giuliani. Universita' degli Studi di Milano, 2011 Jul 06. 23. ciclo, Anno Accademico 2010. [10.13130/pedrazzani-andrea_phd2011-07-06].
Abstract:
With very few exceptions scholars interested in legislative processes pay relatively little attention to the changes made to bills in the parliamentary democracies. On one hand, comparative research often describes legislative institutions in parliamentary countries as ineffectual vis-à-vis cabinets throughout the lawmaking process (Mezey 1979; Blondel 1995); on the other hand, rational choice literature focuses more on the formal rules regulating amendatory activity than on amendatory activity in itself (Rasch 1995, 2000). Therefore, few studies try to explain how much government bills are altered in the legislative arena and why.
In this thesis, I focus on changes of governmental legislation in Italy. I consider as dependent variable the modifications occurring during the legislative process, and discuss a number of explanatory hypotheses both drawn on the existing scholarship or deduced from original conjectures. In answering the question about the government bills’ change I also aim at assessing some features of the unobservable decision making process inside the cabinet.
What can be discovered by studying Italian legislative process is not only relevant for Italy. It has an added value for the comparative research too. During the last 25 years Italy has been characterized by two distinct electoral systems, two extremely different party systems (pivotal and alternational), governments with different party size and ideological range, both technical ministers and party ministers. Therefore some of the findings in this work may concern also other parliamentary democracies.
Tipologia IRIS:
Tesi di dottorato
Keywords:
coalition governments ; legislative review ; Italian political system
Elenco autori:
A. Pedrazzani
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