Italian Political Parties and Military Operations : An Empirical Analysis on Voting Patterns
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
Italian Political Parties and Military Operations : An Empirical Analysis on Voting Patterns / F. Coticchia, V. Vignoli. - In: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION. - ISSN 0017-257X. - 55:3(2020 Jul), pp. 456-473. [10.1017/gov.2018.35]
Abstract:
Since the end of the bipolar era, the military activism of several Western powers has raised questions about parliamentary control, fostering growing research and analyses on the features, drivers and consequences of the different kinds of oversight exercised by legislative assemblies. Within this scholarly debate, this article focuses on the under-studied case of Italy. How did Italian parties vote on military operations abroad in the post-Cold War era? In order to answer this question, the article presents the first detailed and comprehensive set of data on parliamentary votes over the deployment of the Italian armed forces in the post-Cold War era (i.e. from the beginning of the 1990s to the recent operation against ISIL). Thanks to this extensive new empirical material, the article assesses selected arguments developed by the literature on political parties and foreign policy, paving the way for further research.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
parliamentary oversight; military deployment; partisanship; foreign policy; Italy; parliamentary war powers
Elenco autori:
F. Coticchia, V. Vignoli
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