• Login
    View Item 
    •   DORA Home
    • Faculty of Business and Law
    • Leicester Castle Business School
    • Department of Politics, People & Place
    • View Item
    •   DORA Home
    • Faculty of Business and Law
    • Leicester Castle Business School
    • Department of Politics, People & Place
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Declining partisan representation at the sub-national level: assessing and explaining the strengthening of local lists in Italian municipalities (1995–2014)

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Main article (667.0Kb)
    Date
    2016-02-16
    Author
    Vampa, Davide
    Metadata
    Show attachments and full item record
    Abstract
    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 local level. In Italy, for instance, the average share of municipal seats held by non-partisan councillors has almost tripled in the last 20 years. By using an original data set, this article classifies different types of Italian local lists, assesses their relationship with traditional parties and explains territorial variation in their success. The results suggest that local lists have become substantially stronger in small municipalities, in regions characterised by weak or declining political subcultures and where regionalist parties are absent or irrelevant. Finally, contrary to the expectation that declining partisanship is linked to modernisation processes and direct civic engagement, local lists have achieved their best results in the less developed areas of the country.
    Description
    The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
    Citation : Vampa, D. (2016) Declining partisan representation at the local level: assessing and explaining the strengthening of local lists in Italian municipalities (1995-2014). Local Government Studies, 44 (2), pp. 579–597
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2086/12812
    DOI
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2016.1146137
    Peer Reviewed : Yes
    Collections
    • Department of Politics, People & Place [1190]

    Submission Guide | Reporting Guide | Reporting Tool | DMU Open Access Libguide | Take Down Policy | Connect with DORA
    DMU LIbrary
     

     

    Browse

    All of DORACommunities & CollectionsAuthorsTitlesSubjects/KeywordsResearch InstituteBy Publication DateBy Submission DateThis CollectionAuthorsTitlesSubjects/KeywordsResearch InstituteBy Publication DateBy Submission Date

    My Account

    Login

    Submission Guide | Reporting Guide | Reporting Tool | DMU Open Access Libguide | Take Down Policy | Connect with DORA
    DMU LIbrary