Category: Analyses and Insights from Italy

The Covid-19 outbreak has triggered an unprecedented worldwide crisis entailing serious consequences at both the political and the social level. The health emergency hit Italy particularly hard. For understanding what happened and – most of all – for having a more clear idea of what is going on and what we should expect for the future, we propose here a selection of blogs focusing on the topic:

‘This is what European disintegration looks like’, IISS Blog, 28 April 2020 (by Erik Jones)

‘Coronavirus: Lessons from Italy on the difficulties of exiting lockdown’, The Conversation, 27 April 2020 (by Martin J. Bull)

‘Beating Covid-19: the problem with national lockdowns’, LSE EUROPP (European Politics and Policy) Blog, 26 March 2020 (By Martin J. Bull)

Italians are taking real steps to fight the coronavirus — but big political challenges are lurking, Monkey Cage, The Washington Post, 18 March 2020 (by Erik Jones)

Italy’s COVID-19 Lessons for the World, US News, 20 March 2020 (by Erik Jones)

‘Italy’s “Darkest Hour” – how coronavirus became a very real political problem’, The Conversation, 9 March 2020 (by Martin J. Bull)

 

 

SPERI (Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute) have published an interesting analysis by Fabio Bordignon, Luigi Ceccarini and Ilvo Diamanti on the voting dynamics behind the results of the Constitutional Referendum held in Italy in December 2016. Continue reading “THE ITALIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM: THE FEARS BEHIND THE NO VOTE (on SPERI.comment: the political economy blog)”