All Outputs (60)

Open access and academic associations in the political and social sciences : threat or opportunity? (2016)
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Bull, M. (2016). Open access and academic associations in the political and social sciences : threat or opportunity?. European Political Science, 15, 201-210. https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2015.88

Academic associations are a vital part of the academic community, facilitating the interaction of researchers and production of knowledge, yet the impact of Open Access on their future has been too often regarded as marginal to the main discussion. O... Read More about Open access and academic associations in the political and social sciences : threat or opportunity?.

Italian political science and Italian politics : the (Curious) elephant in the room (2015)
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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.

The europeanisation of national institutions reassessed : a comparison of regional policies in Germany and Italy (2013)
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Baudner, J., & Bull, M. (2013). The europeanisation of national institutions reassessed : a comparison of regional policies in Germany and Italy. Comparative European Politics, 11, 201-221. https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2012.17

This article explores an aspect of Europeanisation which notions of ‘adaptive pressure’ and ‘usage’ of European policies have tended to neglect: in a complex policy field such as regional policy it is the evolving nature and heterogeneity of (differe... Read More about The europeanisation of national institutions reassessed : a comparison of regional policies in Germany and Italy.

Editorial. A new venture (2012)
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Bull, M. (2012). Editorial. A new venture. Social Sciences, 1(1), 2-3. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1010002

Even if there ever existed a time when it could be argued that ‘interdisciplinary’ research was unnecessary or a luxury, there can be little doubt that today it is essential to helping understand and solve the world’s problems. And the first building... Read More about Editorial. A new venture.

The Italian transition that never was (2012)
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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.

Negatività in nome del liberalism : ritratti dell’Italia nell ’Economost’ (2011)
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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’.

Italy: reformers without reforms or reforms without reformers? (2010)
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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?.

Forty years of European political science (2010)
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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.

Introduction: religion and politics - American and European experiences (2009)
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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)
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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

Still the anomalous democracy? Politics and institutions in Italy (2009)
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Bull, M., & Newell, J. (2009). Still the anomalous democracy? Politics and institutions in Italy. Government and Opposition, 44(1), 42-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.2008.01275.x

Until the early 1990s, the Italian political system was regarded as anomalous among advanced democracies because of its failure to achieve alternation in government. Since then, that problem has been overcome, but Italy has been popularly viewed as c... Read More about Still the anomalous democracy? Politics and institutions in Italy.

Is there a European political science and if so what are the challenges facing it? (2007)
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Bull, M. (2007). Is there a European political science and if so what are the challenges facing it?. European Political Science, 6(4), 427-438. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210172

This article reviews Hans-Dieter Klingemann's volume, The State of Political Science in Western Europe, and uses the review to explore to what extent it can be argued that there exists a distinctively 'European' political science, and if so, what mig... Read More about Is there a European political science and if so what are the challenges facing it?.

Introduction - Italy : a contested polity (2007)
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Bull, M., & Rhodes, M. (2007). Introduction - Italy : a contested polity. West European Politics, 30(4), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380701500207

Ten years after the last special issue of West European Politics dedicated to Italian politics, it is possible to extend and refine the framework used in that issue to document and explain the trajectory of change in Italian politics since the early... Read More about Introduction - Italy : a contested polity.

A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy (2007)
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Bull, M., & Pasquino, G. (2007). A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy. West European Politics, 30(4), 670-691. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380701500223

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.

European policies and domestic reform : a case study of structural fund management in Italy (2006)
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Baudner, J., & Bull, M. (2006). European policies and domestic reform : a case study of structural fund management in Italy. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans (Print), 7(3), 299-314. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613190500345474

There has been a conspicuous impact of European Union (EU) policies in Italy, and the so-called ‘Europeanization’ of Italian public policies has consequently become a salient research topic. One such public policy area concerns the decentralization... Read More about European policies and domestic reform : a case study of structural fund management in Italy.

Europeanisation and Italian policy for the Mezzogiorno (2004)
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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)
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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.

Italy : the crisis of the left (2003)
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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)
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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

New avenues in the study of political corruption (1997)
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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.