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Political Parties and Partisanship provides an up-to-date
examination of the conceptualizations, causes, and consequences of
partisanship in both new and established democracies in Eastern
Europe.
In 2001, for the first time in the history of the Italian Republic,
an opposition replaced the incumbent government as a consequence of
an electoral victory. In the May General Election, the center-left
government was ousted and a new right-right majority came into
office. It would be premature to suggest that this election
represents the birth of a new Italian political system, one that
will be based on an ongoing alternation in government between two
coalitions and a realignment of voters and parties. Nevertheless,
the second Berlusconi government - aside from the various political
judgments of it - undoubtedly constitutes an institutional and
political novelty. This is not just because the left-left proved
unable, in the election campaign, to exploit its achievements in
office when confronted with someone with undoubted (if
controversial) abilities, but also because of the likely impact of
the new government on policy making and Italy's economic, social
and international trajectory. This edition of Italian Politics
evaluates the 2001 election and impact and analyzes the electoral
success of the right, the election campaign, the crisis of the
left-left after the defeat, and the composition of the new
parliament. Paolo Bellucci is Professor of Political Science at the
University of Molise at Isernia, Italy, and is part of the Cattaneo
Institute's research group, ITANES. Martin Bull is Professor of
Politics at the University of Salford, UK. His recent publications
include Crisis and Transition in Italian Politics.
This title provides an account of partisanship in comparative
empirical research, particularly by advancing the debate focusing
on three key aspects: theories of partisanship, dynamics of
partisanship and behavioural consequences of partisanship.
Does public opinion matter in international conflict resolution?
Does national foreign policy remain independent of public opinion
and the media? International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis
examines, through U.S., Canadian, and European case studies, how
public reaction impacted democratic governments' response to the
ethnic and religious conflict in Bosnia during the period from
1991-1997. Each case study offers an overview of the national media
coverage and public reaction to the war in the former Yugoslavia
and examines the links between public opinion and political and
military intervention in Bosnia. The result is a comprehensive
evaluation of the complex relationship between public opinion,
media coverage, and foreign policy decision-making.
Does public opinion matter in international conflict resolution?
Does national foreign policy remain independent of public opinion
and the media? International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis
examines, through U.S., Canadian, and European case studies, how
public reaction impacted democratic governments' response to the
ethnic and religious conflict in Bosnia during the period from
1991-1997. Each case study offers an overview of the national media
coverage and public reaction to the war in the former Yugoslavia
and examines the links between public opinion and political and
military intervention in Bosnia. The result is a comprehensive
evaluation of the complex relationship between public opinion,
media coverage, and foreign policy decision-making.
The central concern ofThe Europeanization of National Polities? is
to know and describe how far EU 'legal' citizens feel that they are
actually part of a functioning European political system and how
much they think of themselves as EU citizens. The authors report
evidence of the levels of European identity, sense of EU
representation and preferences for EU policy scope among European
mass publics, which are the main dimensions of EU citizenship. The
analysis uses a new comparative dataset on EU attitudes derived
from a survey in 16 EU countries plus Serbia in 2007. This study
shows that, despite initial expectations, levels of European
identity, sense of EU representation, and preferences for EU policy
scope among European mass publics did not display a strong trend in
any particular direction during the period between 1975 and 2007.
However, there are interesting variations in these measures of EU
citizenship both across individuals and across countries that are
described and explained by reference to a series of relevant
hypotheses. The book pays particular attention to the
inter-linkages among the three dimensions of citizenship itself. EU
identity, representation and scope are all reciprocally related,
but the representation dimension is key to the development of a
generalised sense of a sense of citizenship at the EU level. This
in turn places a significant premium on the need to address popular
doubts about the EU's 'democratic deficit'.
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