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Varieties of criminalization: Italy’s evolving approach to policing sea rescue NGOs 刑事定罪的种类:意大利监管海上救援非政府组织的不断演变的方法
Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2220186
Federico Alagna, E. Cusumano
ABSTRACT The appointment of a new right wing cabinet in Italy has caused non-governmental search and rescue organizations once again to be condemned as a supposed pull factor encouraging undocumented migration, and to be subjected to new restrictions on their activities. The attempt to restrict non-governmental sea rescue is, however, far from new. This article describes the evolution of this criminalization process by comparing the policies enacted under four different Italian Interior ministers: Marco Minniti, Matteo Salvini, Luciana Lamorgese and Matteo Piantedosi. We argue that, although important analogies can be found in Salvini’s and Piantedosi’s political discourses, the latest Interior minister has departed from Salvini’s confrontational but ultimately unsuccessful ‘closed ports’ policy by strategically developing some of the subtler tactics adopted by Minniti and Lamorgese. These include, for instance, the imposition of burdensome requirements on organizations rescuing and disembarking migrants and the use of administrative rather than criminal legal instruments to impound ships. As they are less likely to face judicial review and/or cause political backlash than direct criminalization, these indirect hindrances provide more viable avenues for restricting NGOs, but also threaten dire humanitarian consequences, exacerbating the gap in rescue capabilities off the Libyan coast.
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Presidential power and bargaining complexity in the party selection of Italian heads of state, 1948-2022 1948-2022年意大利国家元首政党选举中的总统权力和议价复杂性
Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-04-20 DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2197338
Michelangelo Vercesi
ABSTRACT Among political scientists, presidents in parliamentary democracies have received little attention as compared to their popularly elected counterparts. Yet, there is evidence of influential heads of state beyond semi-presidential and presidential systems, and the Italian one is a case in point. Scholars agree that the ‘informal power’ of Italian presidents has grown substantially since the early 1990s, due to the combination of weak party organisations, the personalisation of politics, and the mediatisation of the presidency. While the literature shows that the choice of the president has become more salient for parties, hardly anything is known about the impact that the increased presidential power has on the complexity of the selection process. This article argues that, when presidents are powerful, parties face high adverse selection costs and, therefore, party leaders will be less likely to compromise on candidates. This, in turn, can lead to political stalemates. Using a novel measure of bargaining complexity, the empirical analysis supports this argument, which holds also after controlling for the contingent features of the parliamentary party set-up. The findings have implications for the study of political leaders and party behaviour at a time of party government decline.
摘要在政治学家中,与民选总统相比,议会民主国家的总统很少受到关注。然而,有证据表明,在半总统制和总统制之外,还有一些有影响力的国家元首,意大利就是一个很好的例子。学者们一致认为,自20世纪90年代初以来,由于软弱的政党组织、政治的个性化和总统的调解,意大利总统的“非正式权力”大幅增长。虽然文献表明,总统的选择对政党来说变得更加突出,但几乎不知道总统权力的增加对选举过程的复杂性产生了什么影响。这篇文章认为,当总统强大时,政党面临着高昂的逆向选择成本,因此,政党领导人不太可能在候选人问题上妥协。这反过来又可能导致政治僵局。实证分析使用了一种新的谈判复杂性衡量标准,支持了这一论点,在控制了议会政党设置的偶然性特征后,这一论点也成立了。这一发现对研究党政衰落时期的政治领导人和政党行为具有启示意义。
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Super partes? Ideological leaning of heads of state and their distance from prime ministers 超级部分?国家元首的意识形态倾向及其与总理的距离
Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-04-17 DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2204259
A. Ceron
ABSTRACT Presidents in parliamentary democracies are commonly perceived as neutral actors, with limited influence on everyday politics. However, Italian heads of state have the widest set of powers among European parliamentary democracies. Recent episodes occurring during the presidential terms of Giorgio Napolitano and Sergio Mattarella suggest that heads of state can indeed play a political role, influencing cabinet formation and day-to-day political events and processes. This article examines whether Italian heads of state can be considered non-partisan political actors or whether, in contrast, their ideological leanings can be inferred from their public speeches and declarations. By compiling and analysing a new and original dataset based on content analysis of presidents’ investiture speeches and New Year’s Eve messages, we mapped the political positions of Italian heads of state over 76 years (1946–2022). As such, the article investigates the conditions under which the position of the President is closer to that of the Prime Minister on the ideological left-right scale and on foreign policy. The analysis reveals that the ideological distance between them is lower when both belong to the same ideological party family and when the Prime Minister has been appointed to form a president’s cabinet, closer to the preferences of the head of state.
议会民主国家的总统通常被视为中立的行动者,对日常政治的影响有限。然而,在欧洲议会民主国家中,意大利国家元首拥有最广泛的权力。乔治·纳波利塔诺和塞尔吉奥·马塔雷拉总统任期内最近发生的事件表明,国家元首确实可以发挥政治作用,影响内阁组建以及日常政治事件和进程。这篇文章探讨了意大利国家元首是否可以被视为无党派的政治行动者,或者相比之下,他们的意识形态倾向是否可以从他们的公开演讲和宣言中推断出来。通过汇编和分析一个基于总统授勋演讲和除夕致辞内容分析的新的原始数据集,我们绘制了76位意大利国家元首的政治立场 年(1946年至2022年)。因此,本文调查了总统在意识形态左右和外交政策上的立场更接近总理的条件。分析表明,当他们同属一个意识形态政党家族时,以及当总理被任命组建总统内阁时,他们之间的意识形态距离较低,更接近国家元首的偏好。
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The ‘presidential accordion’ in times of crisis: is it still well tuned? 危机时期的“总统手风琴”:它还调得好吗?
Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-04-13 DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2199184
M. Tebaldi
ABSTRACT The article analyses the role of the President of the Italian Republic (PoR) as it relates to the process of government formation during the political, economic, and pandemic crises of the last three legislatures. The analysis focuses on the political actions of Giorgio Napolitano and Sergio Mattarella, the two Presidents of the Republic elected (and re-elected) as heads of state during those crises. To explain how the PoR operates when forming a government, the article examines the conditions allowing the functioning of the ‘presidential accordion’, i.e. the expansion and contraction of the presidential powers in the process of government formation. The presidential accordion hypothesis has been supported by many empirical studies focussing on the role of the PoR in the Italian parliamentary system. The aim of this study is further empirically to test the hypothesis in order to verify whether profound exogenous crises, such as recent economic and pandemic crises, can be considered as independent or intervening variables strengthening or weakening the PoR in the Italian political system.
摘要本文分析了意大利共和国总统在过去三届立法机构的政治、经济和疫情危机中与政府组建过程有关的角色。分析的重点是乔治·纳波利塔诺和塞尔吉奥·马塔雷拉这两位共和国总统在这些危机期间当选(并再次当选)为国家元首的政治行动。为了解释PoR在组建政府时是如何运作的,本文考察了允许“总统手风琴”发挥作用的条件,即在政府组建过程中总统权力的扩张和收缩。总统手风琴假说得到了许多实证研究的支持,这些研究集中在PoR在意大利议会制度中的作用上。本研究的目的是进一步实证检验这一假设,以验证深刻的外生危机,如最近的经济危机和疫情危机,是否可以被视为意大利政治体系中加强或削弱PoR的独立或干预变量。
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Life, Death, and the Western Way of War 生,死,和西方战争方式
Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-04-13 DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2201465
Davide Fammenghi
politics based on the conflict between the indignant people and the privileged élite, considered responsible for the worsening of the living conditions of the many. In this sense, Damiani (along with authors such as Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe) shows how the populist appeal is used differently by left-wing parties compared to the ultra-conservative right: inclusively rather than exclusively. An element that unites the parties considered is the emphasis placed on broadening the social bases of democratic participation. In particular, Podemos and FI have focused heavily on the involvement of their interlocutors through information technology platforms, in search of a party model that can replace, at least in part, traditional organizational forms. In the second part of the book, the author devotes three important chapters (‘Organization’, ‘Leadership’ and ‘Participation’) to precisely these issues, well showing how a possible new party model is still in the planning stage. In addition to organizational problems, other ‘dilemmas’ stand in the way of radical left parties, from their stances on the European Union to the delineation of a possible democratic sovereignty, and relations with other left or centre-left parties. Born with very radical and anti-establishment objectives, all three parties considered by Damiani have undergone complex processes of evolution. Syriza led an executive, effectively replacing Pasok as the largest party on the Greek left; Podemos has chosen to participate in a governing coalition with the PSOE, and in France, the Popular Union, promoted by France Insoumise, was a coalition agreement for the 2022 legislative elections between FI and the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the Greens. The longterm effect of these processes is still uncertain, but it is probable that the meaning of what the left might be in Europe in the future also depends on the contribution that the radical parties, well described in Damiani’s book, will be able to make.
政治建立在愤怒的人民和享有特权的人之间的冲突之上,被认为对许多人生活条件的恶化负有责任。在这个意义上,达米亚尼(与埃内斯托·拉克劳和尚塔尔·墨菲等作者一起)展示了左翼政党与极端保守的右翼相比,民粹主义诉求的使用方式是如何不同的:包容性而不是排他性。使所审议的各方团结起来的一个因素是强调扩大民主参与的社会基础。特别是,“我们可以”党和第四国际非常重视对话者通过信息技术平台的参与,以寻找一种政党模式,至少在一定程度上可以取代传统的组织形式。在书的第二部分,作者用三个重要的章节(“组织”、“领导”和“参与”)来阐述这些问题,很好地说明了一种可能的新政党模式如何仍处于规划阶段。除了组织问题之外,激进左翼政党还面临着其他“困境”,从他们对欧盟的立场到对可能的民主主权的界定,以及与其他左翼或中左翼政党的关系。达米亚尼所考虑的三方都有着非常激进和反建制的目标,它们都经历了复杂的演变过程。激进左翼联盟领导了一个行政部门,有效地取代了泛希腊社会主义运动党,成为希腊左翼中最大的政党;“我们可以”选择与社会主义工人党(PSOE)组成执政联盟,而在法国,由法国人民联盟(french Insoumise)推动的人民联盟(Popular Union)是第四国际与社会党(Socialist Party)、共产党(Communist Party)和绿党(Greens)为2022年立法选举达成的联合协议。这些进程的长期影响仍不确定,但很可能未来欧洲左翼的意义也取决于达米亚尼书中所描述的激进政党能够做出的贡献。
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EU Migration System of Governance – Justice on the Move 欧盟移民治理体系——移动中的正义
Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-04-13 DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2201898
Andrea Pettrachin
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The deinstitutionalization of Western European party systems 西欧政党制度的非制度化
Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2201533
F. Venturino
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La mano invisibile dello stato sociale. Il welfare fiscale in Italia 福利国家看不见的手。意大利的税收福利
Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2201466
Igor Guardiancich
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Comparative Health Systems: A New Framework 比较卫生系统:一个新的框架
Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-04-08 DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2201467
P. Mattei
Americanization of the Italian welfare state, amid the timid protests of part of the labour movement. The distributive effects of fiscal welfare in Italy are studied by Figari and Matsaganis (chapter X) through EUROMOD simulations. The overall verdict is merciless: with regard to all tax expenditures, the poorest households (1 decile) receive 3% of the total, the wealthiest ones (10 decile) as much as 15%; that is, five times as much. Regressivity is not, however, equally distributed by social policy. The biggest offender is housing policy, where the ratio of benefits received by the wealthy vis-à-vis the poor is 10 to 1. Family benefits are instead mildly progressive and income support for workers mainly benefits the middle classes. The latter finding points to one of the major shortcomings of tax expenditures: those households, overwhelmingly poor, that pay no personal income taxes due to insufficient earnings are by default excluded from the majority of fiscal welfare measures. As for the volume’s final aim, Natili and Jessoula (chapter VI) provide a summary of the ‘quiet’ politics underpinning the expansion of fiscal welfare. Changes in tax expenditures are first and foremost difficult to trace, due to their technical nature and the need for only marginal legislative interventions, such as modifying obscure articles within yearly budget laws. This implies that the salience of such measures is low, as opposed to the fierce public debates that erupt around pensions or healthcare, and that the fora where fiscal welfare is debated are dominated by the technocrats of the finance ministry rather than by officials dealing with labour and social affairs. In sum, the impressive array of contributions assembled by Jessoula and Pavolini may become a key reference for Italian welfare state studies. Conceiving the volume as a point of departure for further research, I see three main avenues for improvement. First, more effort should be directed towards defining where fiscal welfare’s external boundaries lie and why. At times, the reader has the impression that the concept is excessively stretched. Second, tax expenditures should be studied within a European multilevel governance context. How has the expansion of tax allowances interacted with the rules set by the (now suspended) Stability and Growth Pact? Was it a deliberate strategy to shake off the shackles of externally-imposed austerity? Third, and related to the previous point, shedding social for fiscal welfare may be conceptualized as a novel type of obfuscation tactic, one aimed not at retrenching welfare, but paradoxically at expanding it.
在部分劳工运动的胆怯抗议中,意大利福利国家的美国化。Figari和Matsaganis(第十章)通过EUROMOD模拟研究了意大利财政福利的分配效应。总体判断是无情的:就所有税收支出而言,最贫穷的家庭(十分之一)获得总额的3%,最富有的家庭(十分之一)高达15%;也就是说,是原来的五倍。然而,社会政策并没有平等地分配遗憾。最大的违规者是住房政策,富人与穷人获得的福利比例为10比1。相反,家庭福利是适度累进的,对工人的收入支持主要惠及中产阶级。后一项发现指出了税收支出的一个主要缺点:那些由于收入不足而不缴纳个人所得税的家庭,绝大多数是穷人,默认情况下被排除在大多数财政福利措施之外。至于本卷的最终目标,纳蒂利和杰苏拉(第六章)总结了支撑财政福利扩张的“安静”政治。税收支出的变化首先很难追踪,因为其技术性质和只需要边际立法干预,例如修改年度预算法中晦涩难懂的条款。这意味着,与围绕养老金或医疗保健爆发的激烈公开辩论相比,这些措施的重要性很低,而且辩论财政福利的论坛由财政部的技术官僚主导,而不是由处理劳工和社会事务的官员主导。总之,Jessoula和Pavolini的一系列令人印象深刻的贡献可能会成为意大利福利国家研究的重要参考。将该卷视为进一步研究的出发点,我认为有三条主要的改进途径。首先,应该更加努力地确定财政福利的外部边界在哪里以及为什么。有时,读者会觉得这个概念被过度拉伸了。其次,应在欧洲多层次治理的背景下研究税收支出。免税额的扩大与(现已暂停的)《稳定与增长公约》制定的规则有何互动?这是一种有意摆脱外部紧缩束缚的策略吗?第三,与前一点相关的是,为了财政福利而削减社会福利可能被概念化为一种新型的模糊策略,其目的不是紧缩福利,而是矛盾地扩大福利。
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Una democrazia possibile. Politica e territorio nell’Italia contemporanea 可能的民主。当代意大利的政治和领土
Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-04-08 DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2201468
M. Sorice
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