Outputs (93)

Europeanisation and Italian policy for the Mezzogiorno (2004)
Journal Article
Bull, M., & Baudner, J. (2004). Europeanisation and Italian policy for the Mezzogiorno. Journal of European Public Policy, 11(6), 1058-1076. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350176042000298101

The change in Italy's main regional policy (for the south) in the course of the 1990s provides a prima facie case of Europeanization tout court for scholars of Europeanization. A new policy was adopted that was evidently inspired by the European regi... Read More about Europeanisation and Italian policy for the Mezzogiorno.

Parliamentary democracy in Italy (2004)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2004). Parliamentary democracy in Italy. Parliamentary Affairs, 57(3), 550-567. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsh044

The Italian 'partitocrazia' or 'partitocratic regime' - known as the First Republic - effectively came to an end in the early 1990s under the pressure of a range of different factors, and political changes began about which most observers were, at th... Read More about Parliamentary democracy in Italy.

Corruption in contemporary politics (2003)
Book
Bull, M., & Newell, J. (2003). Corruption in contemporary politics. Palgrave Macmillan

Political corruption in Italy (2003)
Book Chapter
Newell, J., & Bull, M. (2003). Political corruption in Italy. In M. Bull, & J. Newell (Eds.), Corruption in Contemporary Politics (37-49). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Corruption in Italy presents something of a paradox. On the one hand, it is perceived as extensive. In the mid-1990s, for example, Paul Ginsborg branded the country as 'one of the most corrupt democracies in Europe'; on the other hand, notwithstandin... Read More about Political corruption in Italy.

Italy : the crisis of the left (2003)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2003). Italy : the crisis of the left. Parliamentary Affairs, 56(1), 58-74. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsg005

Despite the transformation of the Italian left in the past decade and its presence in government between 1996 and 2001, its shattering electoral defeat in the May 2001 general election represented a new nadir in what is a long-term decline. The princ... Read More about Italy : the crisis of the left.

Italian politics after the 2001 general election : plus ça change plus c’est la même chose? (2002)
Journal Article
Newell, J., & Bull, M. (2002). Italian politics after the 2001 general election : plus ça change plus c’est la même chose?. Parliamentary Affairs, 55(4), 626-642. https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.4.626

Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west (1998)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (1998). Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west. In Italy. Aldershot: Dartmouth

This article, by analysing three different approaches to west European communism in the political science literature, attempts to explain how and why the largest communist party in the West, the Italian Communist Party, took the decision to dissolve... Read More about Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west.

New avenues in the study of political corruption (1997)
Journal Article
Bull, M., & Newell, J. (1997). New avenues in the study of political corruption. Crime, Law and Social Change, 27(3/4), 169-183. https://doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1008232802273

This article argues that the 1990s have witnessed a sea change in the study of political corruption, especially in political science. It explores the reasons for the relative neglect of corruption by political science in the past, and suggests that a... Read More about New avenues in the study of political corruption.

Party organisations and alliances in Italy in the 1990s : a revolution of sorts (1997)
Journal Article
Newell, J., & Bull, M. (1997). Party organisations and alliances in Italy in the 1990s : a revolution of sorts. West European Politics, 20(1), 81-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402389708425176

This study analyses the changes which have taken place in Italian political parties and the alliances they have formulated in the 1990s, changes which are visible at three levels: the disappearance of old parties and their replacement with new organi... Read More about Party organisations and alliances in Italy in the 1990s : a revolution of sorts.

The landmark 1996 elections in Italy (1997)
Journal Article
Bull, M., & Newell, J. (1997). The landmark 1996 elections in Italy. Representation, 34(3/4), 233-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344899708523018