All Outputs (95)

Editorial. A new venture (2012)
Journal Article
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.

Southern Europe and the ‘trade off’ : architects of European disunion? (2012)
Book Chapter

This chapter views the southern European enlargement of the EU in the 1980s and the EU-southern European relationship as based on a form of ‘trade-off’ between ‘solidarity’ on the one hand and ‘sovereignty’ or ‘discipline’ on the other. It suggests... Read More about Southern Europe and the ‘trade off’ : architects of European disunion?.

The Italian transition that never was (2012)
Journal Article

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

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’.

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.

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?.

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

Italy - A contested polity (2009)
Book

Despite the promise of the so-called 'Second Republic' in the early 1990s, Italy remains one of Europe's least well-governed countries. Optimistic expectations were generated in the early 1990s by an apparently new generation of reformers. However, t... Read More about Italy - A contested polity.

Still the anomalous democracy? Politics and institutions in Italy (2009)
Journal Article
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.

A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy (2009)
Book Chapter

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.

The Constitutional Referendum of June 2006 : end of the "Grande Riforma" but not of reform itself' (2008)
Book Chapter

This chapter analyses the constitutional referendum of June 2006 in Italy, analysing the campaign, evaluating the results and assessing the impact on Italian politics.

Is there a European political science and if so what are the challenges facing it? (2007)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

The constitutional referendum of June 2006 : end of the 'Great Reform' but not of reform itself (2007)
Book Chapter

This chapter analyses the origins of the constitutional referendum of June 2006, its significance, the campaign, the result and the implications of the result for Italian politics, arguing that while the referendum ended the idea of a 'grande riforma... Read More about The constitutional referendum of June 2006 : end of the 'Great Reform' but not of reform itself.

European policies and domestic reform : a case study of structural fund management in Italy (2006)
Journal Article
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.