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 [...]
Most journalists don’t care much about the law. The finer points of multiple concurring opinions are hardly catnip for the press corps — if indeed one can talk of a corps covering the UK Supreme Court rather than a few isolated snipers. If the Supreme Court is ever to gain widespread media attention — and [...]
Anyone know how much, as a percent, each party asks its deputies and senators to contribute to the party from their indennità? or how this is enforced? or if there’s a paper trial?
This is why it pays to establish your own micro-party in Italian politics.
And this is when Berlusconi is at his best. It’s not quite the LBJ treatment, but I imagine it’s almost as effective.
So Berlusconi and Fini have fallen out, and the Popolo della Libertà has split.
Berlusconi wants Fini to leave the post of President of the Chamber of Deputies, but, as I mentioned before, there are no provisions for no-confidencing the President of the Chamber.
Berlusconi’s allies are giving the example of Sandro Pertini, who offered his resignation [...]
Here is the paper I’ll be presenting at LSE today, a slightly revised version of my PSA paper with Christel Koop.
Fresh from… well, fresh from doing something, one presumes, the Italian parliament is ready to vote on a law hamstringing the press even further (the so-called <a href=”http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2010/05/19/news/senato_accelera-4186524/?ref=HRER1-1″>legge bavaglio</a>).
The main provisions of the law relate to the publication of leaks from public prosecutors’ office: in particular, a ban on any information before the initial hearing, [...]
So people have noted that if Elena Kagan becomes a Supreme Court Justice, every member of that Court will have been to either Harvard or Yale.
It could be worse: every member of the Bulgarian Constitutional Cour has been to the same university.
I was inspired by this post at The Monkey Cage to repeat an exercise I’ve previously carried out for Italy: namely, to calculate the expected duration of the new cabinet using some off-the-shelf models. I think it’ll last a full five year term — here’s why.