Chapters in book by Luciano Bardi
Political party organizations play large roles in democracies, yet their organizations differ wid... more Political party organizations play large roles in democracies, yet their organizations differ widely, and their statutes change much more frequently than constitutions or electoral laws. How do these differences, and these frequent changes, affect the operation of democracy? This book seeks to answer these questions by presenting a comprehensive overview of the state of party organization in nineteen contemporary democracies. Using a unique new data collection, the book's chapters test propositions about the reasons for variation and similarities across party organizations. They find more evidence of within-country similarity than of cross-national patterns based on party ideology. After exploring parties' organizational differences, the remaining chapters investigate the impact of these differences. The volume considers a wide range of theories about how party organization may affect political life, including the impact of party rules on the selection of female candidates, the links between party decision processes and the stability of party programmes, the connection between party finance sources and public trust in political parties, and whether the strength of parties' extra-parliamentary organization affects the behaviour of their elected legislators. Collectively these chapters help to advance comparative studies of elections and representation by inserting party institutions and party agency more firmly into the centre of such studies.
Papers by Luciano Bardi
Studi Parlamentari E Di Politica Costituzionale, 2009
European Journal of Political Research, 1996
This article attempts to assess (a) the extent to which anti-party sentiment has been a factor in... more This article attempts to assess (a) the extent to which anti-party sentiment has been a factor in Italy's current political changes, with particular reference to the party system; (b) whether such changes can in turn be considered to be a preliminary step towards the rejection of the party-based model of democracy. Elite and mass indicators, whose values rose sharply at the end of the 1980s and culminated in the early 1990s, reveal that anti-party sentiment was indeed a factor in Italy's recent party system changes. The ability of anti-party and antisystem lists to attract many dissatisfied electors resulted in the major 1992-1994 party system realignment. Mass anti-party sentiment, however, appears to have ebbed after the 1993 referendums on party financing and on the electoral law, which were arguably the highest manifestations of popular rejection of the old party-system. It would seem that with realignment popular antiparty sentiment has reached its goals. Perhaps as a consequence, at least some of the successful anti-party parties are already becoming more party-like. In the transition between Italy's first and second Republics, the party-based model of democracy has not yet been replaced.
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2008
... Luciano Bardi, Martin Bull, Clare Dekker, Louise Hawkridge, Central Organising Committee, Pis... more ... Luciano Bardi, Martin Bull, Clare Dekker, Louise Hawkridge, Central Organising Committee, Pisa General Conference ... Finally, the Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize in European Political Sociology went to Giovanni Sartori (professor emeritus, University of Flor-ence and Columbia ...
American Journal of Political Science, 1980
Page 1. Preference Voting and Turnover in Italian Parliamentary Elections* Richard S. Katz, Lucia... more Page 1. Preference Voting and Turnover in Italian Parliamentary Elections* Richard S. Katz, Luciano Bardi, Johns Hopkins University In an election of the Chamber of Deputies, Italians vote for a party list, but may additionally ...
Party Politics, 2009
Copyright © 2009 SAGE Publications Los Angeles London New Delhi www.sagepublications.com ... Marg... more Copyright © 2009 SAGE Publications Los Angeles London New Delhi www.sagepublications.com ... Margit Tavits Andrew Knapp Agnes Batory Florence Haegel Tim Bale Alistair Cole Mariano Torcal Diana Dwyre Kay Lawson Reuven Y. Hazan Frdinand Muller-Rommell John Ishiyama Giacomo Benedetto Takayuki Sakamoto Johnathan R. Hopkin Charles Lees Wouter van der Brug Ian McAllister Susan Scarrow Peter Mair Hanne Marthe Narud Staffan I. Lindberg Miki Kittilson Steven Levitsky Sona Golder Jo Saglie Scott Mainwaring ...
Articles and papers by Luciano Bardi
Contemporary Italian Politics, 2013
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Chapters in book by Luciano Bardi
Papers by Luciano Bardi
Articles and papers by Luciano Bardi