After our article on Italian electoral reform was published, I was asked how the results of the Italian election of 2001 would have turned out if the current electoral system had been used. Here’s my very rough answer, which ignores the complexities (too many to be counted) of the ‘porcata’.
From the same people who brought you openpolis, openparlamento.it went live today.
I’m tremendously pleased that sites like this are starting to happen in Italy. The Camera actually has quite well-formated XML files for each of the plenary sessions, and all it needed was for someone to put that to good use.
So wonderful is the site [...]
Still no comment on the EP elections (shocked and distraught by BNP success in the UK), but here’s a plug for a book edited by Andrea Mammone and Giuseppe Veltri, to which I’ve contributed a chapter:
This volume represents one of the most comprehensive analyses of contemporary Italy. It is a provocative and an innovative collection [...]