Browsing by Author "Vampa, Davide"
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The 2015 regional election in Italy: fragmentation and crisis of sub-national representative democracy
Vampa, Davide (Article)In May 2015, voters in seven Italian regions went to the polls to elect new regional councils and governments. The final election result was apparently similar to that of 2010: centre-left coalitions won in five out of ... -
Declining partisan representation at the sub-national level: assessing and explaining the strengthening of local lists in Italian municipalities (1995–2014)
Vampa, Davide (Article)In Western democracies political representation at the national level is still dominated by (old and new) political parties. This article shows that, instead, the representative role of parties may have declined at the ... -
From National to Sub-National? Exploring the Territorial Dimension of Social Assistance in Italy
Vampa, Davide (Article)In countries that have experienced decentralisation processes, the role that central and sub-national authorities play in the governance of some social policies may vary considerably across regions. In Italy, for instance, ... -
I partiti e le campagne del NO
Vampa, Davide; Vignati, Rinaldo (Book chapter)Analysis of campaign in 2016 Italian referendum. -
Il centrodestra: c’è ma non si vede
Vampa, Davide (Book chapter)The chapter provides an analysis of electoral results of 2016 local elections in Italy. Focus on centre-right parties. -
The Italian Lega Nord
Vampa, Davide; McDonnell, Duncan (Book chapter)In this chapter we provide an overview of the Lega Nord’s history to date and show that – at least according to the criteria used by Kenneth Janda (1980) – it can now be considered an ‘institutionalized’ party. We explore ... -
Local representative democracy and protest politics: the case of the Five-star Movement
Vampa, Davide (Article)In recent years, protest politics has become a relevant phenomenon in various European countries. Italy has witnessed the rise of the Five-star Movement (M5S), an anti-establishment party which, at the 2013 general election, ... -
The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain
Vampa, Davide (Book)This book is a study of the increasing territorial variations in the development of sub-national welfare systems that have occurred as an effect of the decentralization of health care and social assistance policies in ... -
The sub-state politics of welfare in Italy: Assessing the effect of territorial mobilization on the development of region-specific social governance
Vampa, Davide (Article)This article demonstrates that the political mobilization of regional identities through the creation of regionalist parties has positively impacted on the development of region-specific models of welfare governance in ... -
Towards a new era of regionalism in Italy? A comparative perspective on autonomy referendums
Giovannini, Arianna; Vampa, Davide (Article)Referendums on regional autonomy are rare events in European politics but are likely to produce important political and institutional effects. This article provides the first systematic account of the autonomy referendums ...