Data di Pubblicazione:
2012
Citazione:
Government Alternation and Legislative Party Unity : The Case of Italy, 1988–2008 / L. Curini, F. Zucchini. - In: WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS. - ISSN 0140-2382. - 35:4(2012 Jul), pp. 826-846.
Abstract:
The large literature on legislative party unity identifies the confidence relationship, i.e. the threat of being voted out of office and losing agenda setting powers, as well as cabinet membership, as two crucial institutional sources of party discipline. However, by focusing on the dramatic change in the Italian political system following the 1994
election, the article shows that the impact of these factors on party unity (and the direction of this impact) hinge crucially on the possibility of government alternation rather than mere cabinet turnover. This is illustrated by an index of party unity that
explicitly focuses on the behaviour of individual MPs derived from a roll-call analysis of the Italian Chamber of Deputies during the period 1988–2008.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
L. Curini, F. Zucchini
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