Ideological polarization, policy continuity: back to the majoritarian principle?

IF 2.2 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Contemporary Italian Politics Pub Date : 2023-03-23 DOI:10.1080/23248823.2023.2193463

F. Genovese, S. Vassallo

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ABSTRACT This introduction to the Italian Politics 2023 special issue gives an overview of the main events characterizing Italian politics during a year of large-scale policy reforms, presidential and parliamentary elections, and the unexpected Russian invasion of Ukraine. The authors pose three questions concerning Italian politics during the year gone by. First, from an institutional viewpoint, they ask whether the revival of majoritarianism as a principle of government formation represents the prelude to a return to enduring party-system bipolarity. Second, from an electoral and public policy perspective, they ask whether the formation of a government led by what many perceive as a radical right party betokens the start of a correspondingly radical shift in Italian public policy. Third, from an international relations perspective, they ask about the extent to which the Meloni government’s attitude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and more generally to Italy’s position on the world stage and in international affairs, is likely to differ from that adopted by Draghi. The chapter elaborates on the three questions by tracing how the events of 2022 generated much more continuity than expected.

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意识形态两极分化、政策连续性:回归多数原则?

本文介绍了意大利政治2023特刊，概述了意大利政治在大规模政策改革、总统和议会选举以及俄罗斯意外入侵乌克兰的一年中所发生的主要事件。作者对过去一年的意大利政治提出了三个问题。首先，从制度的角度来看，他们提出了这样一个问题:多数主义作为政府组建原则的复兴，是否代表了持久的政党制度两极回归的前奏?其次，从选举和公共政策的角度来看，他们提出的问题是，由许多人认为是激进右翼政党领导的政府的组建，是否预示着意大利公共政策相应激进转变的开始。第三，从国际关系的角度来看，他们询问梅洛尼政府对俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的态度，以及更广泛地说，意大利在世界舞台和国际事务中的地位，可能与德拉吉采取的态度有多大不同。这一章详细阐述了这三个问题，追溯了2022年的事件如何产生了比预期更大的连续性。

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Contemporary Italian Politics Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Italian Politics, formerly Bulletin of Italian Politics, is a political science journal aimed at academics and policy makers as well as others with a professional or intellectual interest in the politics of Italy. The journal has two main aims: Firstly, to provide rigorous analysis, in the English language, about the politics of what is one of the European Union’s four largest states in terms of population and Gross Domestic Product. We seek to do this aware that too often those in the English-speaking world looking for incisive analysis and insight into the latest trends and developments in Italian politics are likely to be stymied by two contrasting difficulties. On the one hand, they can turn to the daily and weekly print media. Here they will find information on the latest developments, sure enough; but much of it is likely to lack the incisiveness of academic writing and may even be straightforwardly inaccurate. On the other hand, readers can turn either to general political science journals – but here they will have to face the issue of fragmented information – or to specific journals on Italy – in which case they will find that politics is considered only insofar as it is part of the broader field of modern Italian studies[...] The second aim follows from the first insofar as, in seeking to achieve it, we hope thereby to provide analysis that readers will find genuinely useful. With research funding bodies of all kinds giving increasing emphasis to knowledge transfer and increasingly demanding of applicants that they demonstrate the relevance of what they are doing to non-academic ‘end users’, political scientists have a self-interested motive for attempting a closer engagement with outside practitioners.