Chris Hanretty » repubblica http://chrishanretty.co.uk/blog Notes on Italian politics and public broadcasting Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:15:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Vote transfers between the parties, 2006-2008 http://chrishanretty.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/05/23/vote-transfers-between-the-parties-2006-2008/ http://chrishanretty.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/05/23/vote-transfers-between-the-parties-2006-2008/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 14:49:20 +0000 Chris http://chrishanretty.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/05/23/vote-transfers-between-the-parties-2006-2008/ 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 Emilia.

The main lesson? No big transfer of votes from the Sinistra Arcobaleno to the Lega Nord.

The reason I’m blogging about it is that I already have a working paper on vote transfers, 2006-2008 which, I think, is technically and substantively superior to the Istituto Cattaneo, but I didn’t get two pages in Repubblica’s magazine. I’m sure there’s an Italian expression for sour grapes, but at the moment it escapes me.

[Okay, fare come la volpavolpe con l'uva, but it doesn't have quite the same ring to it].

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