Giacomo Sani’s scientific contributions

... On one hand, this paper originally incorporates a complete study of the online electoral offer of Spanish parties to the comparative literature focusing on the Internet phenomena. On the other hand, following the long lasting tradition of comparing Spanish and Italian political systems (Sani et al., 1981;Gunther, 2005a), this is the first time that both countries are analyzed with regard to online politics. As it has been largely recognized, this is particularly relevant since both of them are Southern European parliamentary democracies, in which political parties are, to a large extent, publicly funded, playing a key role in the articulation of voters' preferences (Sartori, 2002). ...

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Political Parties online: what do they offer? A longitudinal analysis of Italian and Spanish cases

... The victory of the nationalist armed forces over the Popular Front government marked the end of the Spanish Civil War and the establishment of Francisco Franco's regime . The Francoist dictatorship fell in the aftermath of the dictator's death, and his successor King Juan Carlos led the transition to democracy that ended in June 1977, when Adolfo Suarez was electe Primer Minister in the first free and fair election since the Civil War (Gunther, Sani, and Shabad 1988). ...

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Coups and refugee flows in autocracies and democracies

... Spain's transition to democracy is widely characterized as involving a substantial degree of interparty consensus (Gunther 1992;Linz 1981;Share 1986). Consensus politics in the Spanish context meant that there was often widespread negotiation and accommodation amongst the distinct political parties. ...

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From Consensual to Complex Multi‐level Democracy: The Contours of Contestation and Collaboration in Spain

... The general organizational decline which has occurred in many modern societies has contributed to a weakening of previously strong "anchors of partisanship" (Gunther and Montero 2001). In the case of Spain, this is also the result of the fact that the parties which reemerged in the late 1970s were, either from the very beginning (as in the case of the UCD) or as a long-term product of organizational evolution (the PSOE), catch-all parties, which by their very nature eschew explicit ties to other organized groups in society (see Diamond 2001 andand Gunther, Sani, and Shabad 1986). ...

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Democracy, intermediation, and voting in Spain: some new findings from in-depth and longitudinal data, vol.1, 2018