All Outputs (4)

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
Bull, M. (2007). The constitutional referendum of June 2006 : end of the 'Great Reform' but not of reform itself. In J. Briquet, & A. Mastropaolo (Eds.), Italian Politics: The Center-Left's Poisoned Victory (99-118). Oxford: Berghahn

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.