Datasets

We have coded the following documents:

  • Laws (1983-2013) and Legislative decrees (1987-2013). This dataset is partially incorporated in the Italian Law-Making Archive (ILMA), a database recording information about all Italian legislative processes from 1987 to 2008. The ILMA database is managed by the Department of Social and Political Sciences.
  • Party Manifestoes (1979-2008)
  • Budget (1990-2007)
  • Sentences of the Constitutional Court (1956-2006)
  • Prime Minister's investiture speeches (1979-2013)
  • Oral parliamentary questions (1996-2014)

In the future, we plan to include data on the priorities of public opinion, mass-media and bills.

    Parliamentary & Legislative
  • Legislative decrees
  • Primary laws
  • Question Time
    Prime Minister & Executive
  • Investiture speeches
    Judiciary
  • Italian Constitutional Court sentences


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Research

An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents
Cavalieri et al. (2023) "An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies". Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 20(3): 213–234.    ABSTRACT In this work, we present an intelligent system for the ... Read more

 

The behaviour of populist parties in parliament
“The behaviour of populist parties in parliament. The policy agendas of populist and other political parties in the Italian question time”. Authored by Alice Cavalieri & Caterina Froio (2021) Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica/Italian Political Science Review, open ... Read more

 

Policy Polarisation in Italy
Policy Polarisation in Italy: The Short and Conflictual Life of the ‘Government of Change’ (2018-2019) By Nicolò Conti, Andrea Pedrazzani & Federico Russo 2020, South European Society and Politics ABSTRACT This article uses the concept of policy polarisation to understand the ... Read more

 

Raising the flag among the ruins
Authored by Nicolò Conti, Andrea Pedrazani and Federico Russo Published in the Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Volume 49 , Issue 3, pp. 293 - 309. ABSTRACT Within the context of the economic downturn in southern Eurozone countries and ... Read more

 

Challenger parties in Parliament: the case of the Italian Five Star Movement
In 2013, the Five Star Movement (M5S) won representation for the first time in the Italian parliament, the heart of the institutions they criticised and aimed to reform. With parliamentary ranks filled mostly with inexperienced politicians and a strong identification with the ... Read more

 

The programme-to-policy link in Italy between the First and Second Republic
Carammia, Marcello, Enrico Borghetto, and Shaun Bevan. 2018. ‘Changing the Transmission Belt: The Programme-to-Policy Link in Italy between the First and Second Republic’. Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica This article analyses the ... Read more

 

Government ideology and party priorities
Russo, Federico, e Luca Verzichelli. 2016. «Government ideology and party priorities: the determinants of public spending changes in Italy». Italian Politica Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 46 (3). Focusing on Italy (1948-2009), this article empirically tests ... Read more

 

The role of the Italian Constitutional Court in the policy agenda
Rebessi, Elisa, and Francesco Zucchini. 2018. ‘The Role of the Italian Constitutional Court in the Policy Agenda: Persistence and Change between the First and Second Republic’. Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica If we examine the current ... Read more

 

From agenda setters to agenda takers?
Borghetto, E., Russo, F., Forthcoming. The determinants of party issue attention in times of crisis: from agenda setters to agenda takers? Party Politics. Question time represents one of the most relevant institutional arenas where parties compete to get their favourite issues ... Read more

 

L’analisi comparata delle agenda politiche: il Comparative Agendas Project
Enrico Borghetto and Marcello Carammia (2010) “L’analisi comparata delle agenda politiche: il Comparative Agendas Project”, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, n.2, pp.301-15 Read more

 

The Impact of Party Policy Priorities on Italian Law-Making
Borghetto, Enrico, Marcello Carammia, and Francesco Zucchini. 2014. “The Impact of Party Policy Priorities on Italian Law-Making from the First to the Second Republic (1983-2006).” In Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems, eds. Stefaan Walgrave and Christoffer ... Read more

 

The Influence of Coalition Parties on Executive Agendas in Italy (1983-2008)
Borghetto, Enrico, and Marcello Carammia. 2015. “The Influence of Coalition Parties on Executive Agendas in Italy (1983-2008).” In The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian Case, eds. Nicolò Conti and Francesco Marangoni. Abingdon: Routledge, 36–57. Read more

 

The Policy Content of the Italian Question Time.
In this article, Federico Russo and Alice Cavalieri analysed the policy content on the Italian Question Time, presenting a new dataset consisting of about 4000 questions asked between 1996 and 2012. This study demonstrates that the changing content of questions mirrors the ... Read more

 

Government Agenda-Setting in Italian Coalitions
Borghetto, Enrico, Francesco Visconti, and Marco Michieli. “Government Agenda-Setting in Italian Coalitions. Testing the «Partisan Hypothesis» Using Italian Investiture Speeches 1979- 2014.” Italian Journal of Public Policies, no. 2/2017 (2017): 193–220 Despite variations in ... Read more

 

Staff

Enrico Borghetto
Title: Associate Professor
Institution(s): University of Florence, Department of Political and Social Sciences
Enrico Borghetto (personal homepage) is Associate Professor at the University of Florence, Department of Political and Social Sciences. His research has focused on compliance with EU policies, the Europeanisation of national legislation, legislative studies and European decision-making. He is also one of the co-PIs of the Portuguese policy agendas project. He was responsible for the project "Portuguese Parliament: Agenda-setting and Law-making" Project financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (IF/00382/2014).
 
 

Marcello Carammia
Title: Senior Lecturer
Institution(s): Institute for European Studies of the University of Malta
Marcello Carammia is a Senior Researcher at the University of Catania. Between 2015 and 2019 he was a Senior Researcher at the European Asylum Support Office (EASO – the EU Asylum Agency) where he was responsible for the Agency’s Research programme on the push and pull factors of asylum-related migration. Previously he was a Lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer in Comparative European politics at the University of Malta.
Marcello's research focuses on the comparative analysis of institutions and public policies, with special interest in the interaction between migration flows, politics, and policy. He is also a member of the EU Agendas Team.
 
 
 

Federico Russo
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution(s): University of Salento

Federico Russo (PhD) is currently assistant professor (ricercatore senior) at the University of Salento. Previously he worked as post-doctoral fellow at the New University of Lisbon and at the University of Siena. His main research interest concerns parliaments, political representation and public policy.


Alice Cavalieri
Title: Post-doctoral researcher
Institution(s): University of Trieste

Alice Cavalieri (PhD) is currently Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Trieste, where she works on a project titled "Democracy under Pressure" which investigates the effect of different crises on democracy and democratic institutions. Her research interests deal especially with budgetary policy – her first book "Italian Budgeting Policy" is published by Palgrave Macmillan – and the agenda-setting process in parliament. She was the Country Lead for Italy of the OxCGRT and worked as external collaborator for the European University Institute, the Politecnico of Milan and the PLUS Universität Salzburg on projects focusing on fiscal policy and taxation in European countries.


Francesco Visconti
Title: Research fellow
Institution(s): University of Leicester

Francesco Visconti is a research fellow in the ResponsiveGov (www.responsivegov.eu) project at the University of Leicester. He holds a PhD in Comparative and European Politics from the University of Siena. His main research interests include agenda setting, public policy, government responsiveness, and public opinion.


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Born in 2009 by the joint effort of a small group of young Italian researchers from different universities, the Italian Agendas Project has progressively grown and it is now established as an active partner in the "Comparative Agendas Project" research network.

Principal Investigator: Enrico Borghetto (enrico.borghetto@fcsh.unl.pt); Marcello Carammia (marcello.carammia@um.edu.mt); Federico Russo (federico.russo@unisalento.it )
Email: italianpolicyagendas@gmail.com
Downloadable Data Series: 4
Time Span: 1983-2014
Total Observations: 11,523

Sponsoring Institutions

The Italian Policy Agendas Project had the support of  the Italian Ministry of Education and Research (Prin 2007 - prot. scrwt4  and Prin 2009 - prot. 2009TPW4NL_002) and the Department of Social and Political Sciences (Università degli Studi di Milano)

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An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents

Cavalieri et al. (2023) "An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies". Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 20(3): 213–234.    ABSTRACT In this work, we present an intelligent system for the automatic categorization of political documents, specifically the documents containing the parliamentary questions collected during the weekly Question Times at the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian ... Read more

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