In a year marked by a crucial round of legislative elections in Italy, this track aims to take stock of comparative politics research addressing the contemporary transformations of the Italian political system. The track welcomes panel proposals dealing with the institutional political dimension as well as with the development of major decision-making processes, relating both to domestic policies and to foreign policy and international cooperation.
This track, therefore, has a specific focus on Italian politics, while at the same time adopting an implicit or explicit comparative perspective. Its central idea is to develop a series of panels connected by a broader reflection on the shared trajectories and persistent differences among the democracies of Southern Europe: both those long integrated into the European Union system and those of the Western Balkans area, extending as far as Turkey. Panels may therefore include both research focused exclusively on the Italian political system — preferably framed within a comparative perspective — and contributions centred on intensive comparison among Southern European political systems.
- Far-Right Ascendancy, Affective Polarisation, and Democratic Attitudes: Southern Europe and the Role of Historical Memory
Chair: Prof. Nicolò Conti - The Crisis of Representative Democracy and the Resilience of Political Elites in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Chair: Dr. Juan RodrÃguez Teruel - The Italian General Elections from a Southern European perspective: parties, voters and issues
Chair: Prof. Luca Carrieri
