El maremágnum de las reformas electorales en Italiauna necesaria recapitulación

  1. Fernández Esquer, Carlos 1
  1. 1 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Madrid, España

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Revista:
Revista de estudios políticos

ISSN: 0048-7694

Ano de publicación: 2020

Número: 187

Páxinas: 71-100

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.18042/CEPC/REP.187.03 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumo

Italy represents an exceptional case in comparative perspective as far as its electoral system is concerned. Since the restoration of democracy after the Second World War to the present, up to six different electoral laws have been passed for the Chamber of Deputies. Moreover, during the so-called Second Italian Republic, the country has witnessed four electoral systems: Mattarellum (1993), Porcellum (2005), Italicum (2015) and Rosatellum (2017). This paper aims to summarize the electoral reforms that took place in Italy. Thus, this contribution sheds light on the different types of electoral systems used at the Italian national level and its effects, and discusses what have been the most relevant characteristics of their reform processes as well. The main conclusions highlight that the electoral reform processes have been different from each other, fitting one of them in the elite-mass interaction type and others in the elite-majority imposition one. In addition, against what had been usual in this issue, this paper stress the crucial role played by the Italian Constitutional Court as the main triggering actor of electoral reforms in its judgments 1/2014 and 35/2017

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