Rossana Sampugnaro

• Phd Sociology
• Senior Researcher at University of Catania

The crisis of political representation has several explanations, including the collapse of trust in political institutions and the weakening of the role of the party as an intermediary between voters and elected representatives. This is counterbalanced by a strategy of individual representation pursued by politicians. This article aims to examine r...

Many studies in different scientific fields offer controversial results on the media’s role to influence attitudes towards immigration. In the present paper, the attitude that European public opinion has towards no-European immigration is analysed through data from Eurobarometer in the 3 waves starting in 2017 until the latest updated in 2019 with...

The digital platform has deeply changed the electoral campaigns, producing a consequent evolution of political consulting. Social networks have become the mainstream media so that the digital strategist and the big data analysts have achieved a special place in the “war room,” next to the campaign director and the pollster. In 2012, Obama’s electio...

Abstract. The essay analyzes the policies of rebalancing gender representation in Italy, examining the main approaches and their constituent elements. More specifically, the aim is to document the transformation of the opportunities structure for access to legislative Assemblies for women in the Italian context. Following a diachronic approach, the...

La natura della rappresentanza politica è un elemento essenziale di ogni sistema politico che ne definisce la capacità inclusiva e ne condiziona il funzionamento. Con la “Politica come professione” (1948), Weber offre una contestualizzazione della rappresentanza all’interno del sistema politico, individuando alcune delle chiavi di lettura necessari...

Lo scandalo di Cambridge Analytica produce allarme nell’opinione pubblica, ren-dendo palese quello che era risaputo tra gli addetti ai lavori. Esiste una “industria del dato” che con metodi più o meno leciti raccoglie informazioni sui cittadini, unisce databases e produce profilazioni in base a gusti, orientamenti valoriali, abitudini sessuali, pra...

Based on public databases hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and drawing on data collected by the OpenPolis Foundation on parliamentarians, the study analyses the socio-demographic and political profiles of female candidates for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies in the single- and multi-member constituencies after adoption of the ‘Rosato L...

The mechanisms of involvement in political life, other conditions being equal, still vary with respect to gender. Social networks in real life (friends, family, coworkers, and acquaintances in political and social organizations) condition political participation and are very important to explain the engagement and the empowerment of women through t...

This special issue focuses on the tension between the formal rules aimed at reducing the disparity between the genders in public office and the informal barriers to women’s political participation. These also include the way in which media systems portray women, taking into consideration their role either in promoting equal opportunities for women...

With the end of Mare Nostrum, the outsourcing of rescue operations and the attempt to europeanise the crisis, the role of NGOs in the SAR area is shifting from a complementary to a fundamental one in rescue operations as a whole. The rapid change in the regulatory framework governing Italian and European actions requires a constant redefinition of...

The demand for specific expertise to manage strategically election campaigns is growing. However, their use depends on the history of political party, on their values and on their economic resources and to the context in which the election campaign takes place. In this sphere, the electoral system produces constraints and incentives for the develop...

The demand for specific expertise to manage strategically election campaigns is growing. However, their use depends on the history of political party, on their values and on their economic resources and to the context in which the election campaign takes place. In this sphere, the electoral system produces constraints and incentives for the develop...

The structure of the M5s group in the Italian parliament has become more clearly defined during the eighteenth legislature, with the rise of identifiable leaders and the start of a process of internal segmentation. The study examines the process of vertical differentiation from 2013 to 2018, considering simultaneously the intra-group dynamics; the...

The special issue is the result of research and analysis concerning the activities of the Five-star Movement (M5s) in the local and national institutions and the process of institutionalisation undergone by this new political entity. Even though the M5s has resisted being transformed into a political party, it is having to face the problems associa...

IT IS USELESS BUT I BELIEVE IT. THE RULES OF THE ELECTORAL GAME AND THE INTENSITY OF THE CAMPAIGN IN THE ITALIAN GENERAL ELECTION This study aims to interpret the changes in current electoral campaigns through the analysis of the strategic communication of 150 Italian MPs (of the XVII Legislature), during the electoral campaigns and the subsequent...

More than ten years after the Tremaglia law was introduced, the quality of the representation provided by MPs elected for the foreign constituency is often the subject of caricature, despite the MPs' many activities. The purpose of this article is to explore the kind of representation enjoyed by Italians resident abroad by looking, in particular, a...

The organization patterns of the parties depend on new needs and on segmentation of interests. Political participation is very instable and develops often outside the traditional political organizations and in individualized manner on the web. In many parties, the reaction is the de-diferentiation and the de-burocratization, linked to total or part...

During the twentieth century, theoretical and empirical studies aimed to analyse changes in individual participation and in social and political dynamics. A great emphasis was attributed to the process of individualization. Young people were described as a generation with a limited political involvement, especially considering traditional forms of...

Parties restructure their organizations to prepare themselves for new challenges. In many cases, the changes involve a reduction of the subsystems structure, dropping the number of territorial units or finding leaner solutions and outsourcing of activities which were once fulfilled within the boundaries of the party organization. Specifically, the...

La nascita di movimenti con finalità politiche negli ultimi anni – dal Popolo Viola (PV), al Movimento 5 Stelle per arrivare a “Se non ora quando” – ha richiamato la necessità di comprendere cosa sia successo sotto la soglia della visibilità, dopo due decenni di crisi della partecipazione politica tradizionale. In particolare la domanda che sta all...

L’alto grado di mobilitazione è il vero elemento di novità e di interesse delle primarie dell’Unione. Se è vera l’ipotesi che esse abbiano coinvolto una quota di elettori, al di là delle capacità di mobilitazione delle strutture di partito e collaterali, è verosimile considerare l’elevata affluenza come espressione della volontà di ‘sentirsi parte’...

La natura delle campagne elettorali è profondamente mutata negli ultimi quindici anni a partire dalla loro durata, che le ha portate a dilatarsi sino a divenire permanenti, con un aumento vertiginoso dei costi, questi ultimi imputabili anche alla disponibilità di nuove tecnologie e alle conoscenze applicabili alla politica che hanno determinato l'i...