Data di Pubblicazione:
2019
Citazione:
Where are the doves? Explaining party support for military operations abroad in Italy / V. Vignoli. - In: WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS. - ISSN 0140-2382. - (2019). [Epub ahead of print] [10.1080/01402382.2019.1667164]
Abstract:
Since the end of the Cold War, Italy has radically transformed its foreign and security policy, participating in several Military Operations Abroad (MOA) across the world. A few qualitative studies have already analysed how Italian parties debated and voted on this issue, underlining a bipartisan consensus between centre-left and centre-right parties, based on a common humanitarian narrative. This article provides a substantial methodological contribution to this research agenda, explaining party support in Italy for the six most relevant MOAs during the so-called ‘Second Republic’ (1994–2013), through the employment of automated text analysis and linear regression models. In line with existing literature on the party politics of military interventions, the findings indicate a curvilinear distribution of support across the left–right axis, the strong impact of government–opposition dynamics and the interaction between international legitimacy of the specific operation and ideological leaning.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Military operations, political parties, Italy, parliamentary debates, Wordfish
Elenco autori:
V. Vignoli
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