I’ve been very impressed by the speed with which the Labour party put up full breakdowns on constituency Labour party preferences, MPs and MEPs’ voting records, and voting in affiliated organizations. I guess hiring ERS really does pay off. I got very excited when I saw that MPs’ full preference listings are public. Preference data [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE GROUP ON ITALIAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY (CONGRIPS), 107TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN POLTIICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (APSA), SAN FRANCISCO, 1-4 SEPTEMBER 2011 In order to mark the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, papers are invited which seek to throw light on the significance of Unification itself for an understanding of the [...]
Italian presidents play a generally low-profile, but crucially important, role in the country’s political system, responsible as they are for mediating and regulating with the aim of ensuring that political processes are carried on without threatening national integration. This importance appears to be reflected in the results of surveys which regularly show much higher levels [...]
Convenors: Oscar Mazzoleni (Lausanne) and Duncan McDonnell (Birmingham/Torino) Deadline for paper proposals: 17 September 2010 Party change and crisis has been a key theme for political science in recent decades, in particular as regards the capacity of Western European parties to adapt to a series of new structural challenges. One of the less explored of [...]