Outputs (4)

The Pentapartito (2015)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2015). The Pentapartito. In E. Jones, & G. Pasquino (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669745.013.23

The pentapartito was the five-party governing coalition which, aside from two brief interruptions, held governmental office in Italy between June 1981 and April 1991. The parties making up the coalition were: Christian Democracy (DC), the Italian Soc... Read More about The Pentapartito.

Italian political science and Italian politics : the (Curious) elephant in the room (2015)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2015). Italian political science and Italian politics : the (Curious) elephant in the room. Contemporary Italian Politics, 7(2), 185-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2015.1033927

Using as a starting point the 40th anniversary of Italian political science in 2013 and the volume published to mark this occasion (Pasquino, G., M. Regalia and M. Valbruzzi. Eds. Quarant’anni di scienza politica in Italia. Bologna: il Mulino, 2013),... Read More about Italian political science and Italian politics : the (Curious) elephant in the room.

Institutional reform in Italy to respond to the EU challenge : Renzi’s constitutional reform project (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Bull, M. (2015, January). Institutional reform in Italy to respond to the EU challenge : Renzi’s constitutional reform project. Presented at The 2014 European Elections: Italian Politics and the European Challenge, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde

This paper evaluates Renzi’s constitutional reform programme by assessing it against the main reasons for its failure to be achieved in the past two decades. The first section outlines the scale of those failures against the expectations of the putat... Read More about Institutional reform in Italy to respond to the EU challenge : Renzi’s constitutional reform project.

Institutions and the political system : a story of failure (2015)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2015). Institutions and the political system : a story of failure. In A. Mammone, E. Parini, & G. Veltri (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy: History, Politics and Society (103-114). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709970

This chapter first outlines the institutional framework and the functioning of the Italian political system until the early 1990s; then, second, documents the rise of institutional reform from the early 1980s and especially its trajectory since the e... Read More about Institutions and the political system : a story of failure.