Being born in Italy (being Italian is different, and I never completely understood what it really
means) has had some influence, albeit involuntarily, on my political and cultural education …

Personal representation is an essential element to achieve a high quality of democracy.
Many studies of electoral systems, by focusing on the allocation of seats to parties, have …

The book extends research on the territorial structure of party systems (party nationalization)
to 20 post-communist democracies. It explains party nationalisation as a consequence of …

There is an assumption in much of the electoral engineering literature that domestic
episodes of electoral system choice occur in a vacuum, isolated from international …

Mixed electoral systems have been celebrated enthusiastically in the literature and by
political practitioners, arguing that they combine the best of both worlds with regards to …

José ramón montero y Pedro riera i. INTRODUCCIÓN este artículo discute cuestiones
relativas a la desproporcionalidad del sistema electoral español, que es sin duda una de …

Diese Studie behandelt ein “klassisches” Thema der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft auf
eine, mindestens nach meiner Sicht der Dinge, innovative Weise; sie fragt nach den …

This book explores the role of constitutions in public finance, with a special focus on
transitional context in Central and Eastern Europe. The main questions addressed are: How …

This chapter analyses the diffusion of party politics by focusing on the ideological shifts
within political parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and analysing the impact …

As the" Short Twentieth Century" came to an end, more and more democracies seriously
considered the possibility–often for the first time in their history-of changing their national …