The 2018 Italian general elections were a crucial test to assess the resilience of mainstream
parties vis-à-vis the challenge provided by populist forces and the stabilisation of the tripolar …

The 2022 Italian general election marked a new step in the unprecedented instability
experienced by the Italian party system over the past 15 years. This article presents and …

The personalization of politics has been extensively studied from different angles and in
different national contexts. Nonetheless, an easily comparable and longitudinal study of the …

The comparative study of intraparty divisions and their determinants has been a long-
debated matter, but some issues remain unresolved. First, the problem of the empirical …

In recent years, and particularly following the impact of the “great recession”, Western
European party systems have undergone profound change. New parties have emerged and …

This article widens the theoretical debate on congruence in voting by including the
municipal level on top of the consolidated national-regional comparisons. The concept of …

I investigate whether the strength of the class cleavage in Western Europe still “translates”
into the electoral mobilization of the left. This research question is addressed through …

This article investigates Italian regional elections held between 2018 and 2020 in order to
assess whether, and if so, to what extent, regional elections present nationalized or …

Regional reform over the past seven decades has made a profound impact on electoral
democracy in Europe. First and foremost, the territorial scope of regional elections–that is …

Reduce dal 'terremoto elettorale'del 2013 (Chiaramonte e De Sio 2014), il sistema partitico
italiano, lungi dall'assestarsi, ha subito un'ulteriore violenta scossa nelle elezioni del 2018 …