The ‘presidential accordion’ in times of crisis: is it still well tuned?

IF 2.2 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Contemporary Italian Politics Pub Date : 2023-04-13 DOI:10.1080/23248823.2023.2199184

M. Tebaldi

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The article analyses the role of the President of the Italian Republic (PoR) as it relates to the process of government formation during the political, economic, and pandemic crises of the last three legislatures. The analysis focuses on the political actions of Giorgio Napolitano and Sergio Mattarella, the two Presidents of the Republic elected (and re-elected) as heads of state during those crises. To explain how the PoR operates when forming a government, the article examines the conditions allowing the functioning of the ‘presidential accordion’, i.e. the expansion and contraction of the presidential powers in the process of government formation. The presidential accordion hypothesis has been supported by many empirical studies focussing on the role of the PoR in the Italian parliamentary system. The aim of this study is further empirically to test the hypothesis in order to verify whether profound exogenous crises, such as recent economic and pandemic crises, can be considered as independent or intervening variables strengthening or weakening the PoR in the Italian political system.

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危机时期的“总统手风琴”：它还调得好吗？

摘要本文分析了意大利共和国总统在过去三届立法机构的政治、经济和疫情危机中与政府组建过程有关的角色。分析的重点是乔治·纳波利塔诺和塞尔吉奥·马塔雷拉这两位共和国总统在这些危机期间当选（并再次当选）为国家元首的政治行动。为了解释PoR在组建政府时是如何运作的，本文考察了允许“总统手风琴”发挥作用的条件，即在政府组建过程中总统权力的扩张和收缩。总统手风琴假说得到了许多实证研究的支持，这些研究集中在PoR在意大利议会制度中的作用上。本研究的目的是进一步实证检验这一假设，以验证深刻的外生危机，如最近的经济危机和疫情危机，是否可以被视为意大利政治体系中加强或削弱PoR的独立或干预变量。

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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.