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The rhetoric of reform revealed (or: If you bite the ballot it might bite back)
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The article assesses the effects, direct and indirect, intended and unintended, of the 1993 national electoral reform and the results of the 1994 general elections in Italy. It shows that the new system is not an eccentric compromise, and that those who forecast either its unworkability or its evil consequences were mistaken. However, in evaluating the success of the reform with respect to the ambitions which were held for it, it concludes that the reforme was a predictable failure. The artic...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Modern Italian Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 1
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 357-376
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- ISSN:
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1354-571X
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- English
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- ora:3862
- Deposit date:
- 2010-06-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Routledge
- Copyright date:
- 1996
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Gambetta, D. & Warner, S. (1996). 'The rhetoric of reform revealed (or: If you bite the ballot it may bite back)', Journal of Modern Italian Studies 1(3), 357-376. [Available at http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1354%2d571X&volume=1&issue=3&spage=357]. N.B. Professor Gambetta is based at Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford.
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