Danilo Di Mauro- Professor
- Professor (Associate) at University of Catania
Danilo Di Mauro
- Professor
- Professor (Associate) at University of Catania
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Instruments of “electoral engineering” such as compulsory voting, incentives and simultaneous multi-level voting, have become pretty common in contemporary democracies, especially in areas with low turnout rates. Simultaneous elections – i.e. the practice of establishing an election day when different governments (usually at local and national leve...
The executive summary of the report examines the European Union's (EU) approach to democracy support within its foreign policy, questioning how the EU can maintain its role as a normative power amidst shifting priorities and challenges. The report highlights that while the EU is formally committed to promoting democracy, human rights, and the rule...
Despite growing interest in both party and citizens’ support for the EU, the relationship between sources of public attitudes toward the EU and the values deriving from structural cleavages remains poorly observed. Particularly, the emergence of a new Transnational Cleavage appears theoretically and empirically disconnected from the state of knowle...
The recent history of European politics has been characterised by the mounting phenomena of populism and Euroscepticism. Some recent analyses discuss the possible convergence between the two, exemplified, above all, by the increased success of Eurosceptic and populist parties. Conceptually and historically, Euroscepticism and populism are two disti...
In many respects, Italy-a founding member of the EU and once one of its most pro-European countries-may well represent today a privileged observation point for the study of the electoral behaviour of Eurosceptic voters. In the article, we look for evidence about a Eurosceptical match between the demand and the supply sides of the Italian electoral...
Has the refugee crisis changed the impact of different instrumental
explanations of public views on immigration, and why? This study,
focusing mainly on neighbourhood safety, contact theory and economic
competition from a longitudinal perspective, investigates how and why
theoretical approaches to public opinion on immigrants change during
massive...
While the EU was still recovering from the Great Recession, the refugee crisis polarized and mobilized national and European political spaces, inducing governments to revise their immigration policies. Scholars are presently engaged in academic debate over whether these revisions can be explained by reference to grand theories of European integrati...
This article aims to explore the conditions under which Italian citizens would be ready to support a greater role for the EU in matters currently subject to the authority of its member states. We examine how citizens perceive the role of the EU in managing the currently pressing problems induced by the most recent crises. Through the analysis of or...
The massive wave of migration that has affected Europe since 2015 has placed European and national institutions under considerable strain, with significant implications for both EU integration and for politics within the member states. Italy, one of the first points of access for immigrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea, provides the basis for a c...
In recent years, the number of immigrants reaching the EU has grown dramatically. The migration crisis and its political repercussions have been felt with different intensity across Europe. In this critical situation, EU-level coordination has proved problematic due to the nested interests of the member states. This article addresses the problem of...
The European Union represents the most advanced case of voluntary regional integration in the world. But today, after several decades of the pooling of sovereignty within the EU, Europe is experiencing a renaissance of national sovereignty supported by a nationalistic turn of public opinion and represented by parties on both ends of the political s...
This study investigates the factors explaining voting in the 2016 Italian referendum on constitutional reform. As we show through voting alignments within the Parliament and key aspects of the electoral campaign, this was a case where the government took the leadership of the entire referendum process, transforming it into a plebiscite. Within this...
Although there is a considerable amount of talk about transformative power of deliberation on identity, the debate in literature remains highly theoretical in underlying the benefits of deliberative model for EU Integration. So far, little empirical evidence is available on the actual impact of deliberation. Can deliberation enhance European identi...
The recent financial and economic crisis provides a perfect context for testing how the growth of a political issue affects attitudes toward European institutions. Saliency of an issue is positively related to concern toward the same issue. This last concept proves to have a stronger effect on support for Europe. Concern for the economic situation...
This chapter focuses on the definition of attitudes toward Europe, showing the limits of the concept of Euroscepticism. This concept was recently challenged by theoretical approaches, showing that attitudes toward the EU have multiple dimensions. By providing theoretical arguments and reviewing empirical tests, the authors claim that: (1) people di...
Once the concept of support has been “unpacked” as diffuse and specific types, the analysis focuses on the origins of specific support to Europe. Among some sources of support and opposition toward EU policies, the authors test the effect of personal and social saliency on satisfaction with EU performance in different policy domains. Results show t...
This article focuses on the relationship between the economy and electoral participation. Specifically, it aims to address the following question: what is the effect of the current economic crisis on Euro-pean electoral turnout? According to the literature, economic reasons play an important role in both electoral participation and people's party c...
The book addresses the topic of EU legitimacy by exploring the forms, origins and effects of citizens’ support to EU institutions. Through examining the wide-ranging levels of support, the authors show how these multi-faceted attitudes cast shade on the outdated, somewhat one-dimensional concept of Euroscepticism. Di Mauro and Memoli not only obser...
The research presented in this article focuses on support and opposition towards Europe in Italy. In particular, it aims to understand and explain the progressive growing opposition towards EU institutions within Italian public opinion. For decades, both Italian media and political parties have depicted Italy as one of the strongest pro-European co...
Recent scholarly work has underlined the importance of being cautious about the notion of Euro-skepticism by putting stress on alternative concepts and measures. This theoretical and empirical contribution has enriched the debate on support for Europe and its potential multidimensionality. However, the fit between theoretical conceptualization and...
Lebanon's history of democratic establishment, collapse and resuscitation represents an excellent laboratory to assess the theory of Consociational Democracy. This article elaborates four main approaches — Elitist, Institutional, Developmental and International — that emerged in the literature concerning Lebanon since the mid-1960s. It is aimed to...
