Outputs (93)

The Italian transition that never was (2012)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2012). The Italian transition that never was. Modern Italy, 17(1),

The recent argument that the notion of ‘transition’ should be set aside in attempting to explain the trajectory of Italian politics in the past two decades is to be welcomed, but does not go far enough in explaining why we, as Italianists, got our ca... Read More about The Italian transition that never was.

Architects of disunion? Southern Europe, the crisis and the European Union (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bull, M. (2011, September). Architects of disunion? Southern Europe, the crisis and the European Union. Presented at European Disunion: The Multidimensional Power Struggles, Holiday Inn Hull Marina (University of Hull)

This paper views the southern European enlargement in the 1980s and the EU-southern European relationship as based on a form of ‘trade-off’ between ‘solidarity’ on the one hand and ‘discipline’ on the other. It will suggest that, while the ‘trade-off... Read More about Architects of disunion? Southern Europe, the crisis and the European Union.

Maestri of political science (2011)
Book
(2011). D. Campus, G. Pasquino, & M. Bull (Eds.), Maestri of political science. University of Essex: ECPR Press

This book continues the editors' work (started in the volume Masters of Political Science) of highlighting and re-evaluating the contributions of the most important political scientists who have gone before. Its basis is the belief that the future de... Read More about Maestri of political science.

Negatività in nome del liberalism : ritratti dell’Italia nell ’Economost’ (2011)
Journal Article
Newell, J., & Bull, M. (2011). Negatività in nome del liberalism : ritratti dell’Italia nell ’Economost’. Comunicazione politica, 1, 17-38. https://doi.org/10.3270/34250

Italian commentators show an understandable sensitivity to portrayals of the country in foreign media reports. Therefore, we look at how an especially influential publication, The Economist, has portrayed Italy since 1994; why, and with what conseque... Read More about Negatività in nome del liberalism : ritratti dell’Italia nell ’Economost’.

Forty years of European political science (2010)
Journal Article
Briggs, J., De Sousa, L., Moses, J., & Bull, M. (2010). Forty years of European political science. European Political Science, 9(Supp 1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2010.46

The evolution and development of political science in Europe can best be seen through three dimensions: first , the way in which the subject area has been defined; second, how it has been institutionalized; and third, the way its professional communi... Read More about Forty years of European political science.

Italy: reformers without reforms or reforms without reformers? (2010)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2010). Italy: reformers without reforms or reforms without reformers?. Modern Italy, 15(4), 495-497. https://doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2010.503392

Italy has experienced several reforms since the early 1990s, but root-and-branch reform has not been achieved, despite its perceived need. Furthermore, the methods to achieve such reform have been exhausted. The combination of the failure of substanc... Read More about Italy: reformers without reforms or reforms without reformers?.

Special issue: Forty years of European Political Science (2010)
Book
(2010). J. Briggs, M. Bull, L. de Sousa, & J. Moses (Eds.), Special issue: Forty years of European Political Science. Palgrave Macmillan

This Special Issue of European Political Science on 'forty Years of European Political Science' is part of the celebrations of the European Consortium of Political Research's 40th anniversary in 2010. The issue is less a celebration of the ECPR, howe... Read More about Special issue: Forty years of European Political Science.

Introduction: religion and politics - American and European experiences (2009)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2009). Introduction: religion and politics - American and European experiences. European Political Science, 8(3), 270-272. https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2009.21

There can be little doubt that if the study of religion and politics had for a long while become less interesting to the general scholar (and therefore the preserve of the specialist few) this has dramatically changed in the past decade. A number of... Read More about Introduction: religion and politics - American and European experiences.

The general election in Italy, April 2008 (2009)
Journal Article
Bull, M., & Newell, J. (2009). The general election in Italy, April 2008. Electoral Studies, 28(2), 337-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2009.01.002

A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy (2009)
Book Chapter
Bull, M., & Pasquino, G. (2009). A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy. In M. Bull, & M. Rhodes (Eds.), Italy - A contested polity (14-35). Abingdon & New York: Routledge

Of all the issues that have been regarded as necessary to stabilising Italian politics following the dramatic upheaval of the 1990s, none has been more important than constitutional and institutional reforms. Yet, there has been an unqualified failur... Read More about A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy.