My paper on the 2008 election and vote shifts between the parties has now been published at CADMUS, the EUI’s online repository.
Today’s Venerdi in Repubblica has gone to town on the basis of a study released by the Istituto Cattaneo. The study [PDF] is presented misleadingly: the magazine gives only one diagram (for Milan) but the Cattaneo study only gives vote transfers for a number of cities/areas - Milano, Brescia, Como, Varese, Bologna, Modena, and Reggio […]
Okay, it refers to the First Republic, but this paper by Miriam Golden and Lucio Picci is excellent. Bottom line: more important government deputies got more pork; parties were unable to steer resources to districts in which they were marginal.
Does this pattern continue today? Probably. In the face-to-face debate in 2006, one of the most […]
I was at a departmental retreat this weekend, and talk turned to careers. We realised that it might be a good idea to pool information about the academic job market in our own countries, especially in those still-rare cases where vacancy notices are posted on the internet and genuinely competitive.
So, for anyone who’s interested in […]
I came back from Stockholm to a pleasant surprise: two copies of Politica in Italia 2006, featuring an article I co-authored with David Hine on the Berlusconi government’s reshuffle last year. The package was addressed to ‘Prof. Hanretty’. Well, I can dream.
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