lunedì 13 ottobre 2014

Cavataio su "MF Milano Finanza" di sabato 11 ottobre 2014, p. 12

MARIANO CAVATAIO e Irene Elisei (2014),
I consigli per l'autunno. Più investimenti in azioni e occhio alle occasioni sulle valute
in "MF Milano Finanza" di sabato 11 ottobre, p. 12 (leggi l'articolo)

 

venerdì 10 ottobre 2014

Paper di Cavataio e Camatarri alla conferenza politologica internazionale 2015 (PSA)

http://www.psa.ac.uk/conference/2015-conference
 
 
Il paper di Mariano Cavataio e Stefano Camatarri sarà presentato alla 65esima Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual International Conference che si terrà a Sheffield (Gran Bretagna) il 30 marzo e l'1 aprile 2015.
 
Titolo del panel
The party of the leader - personalisation of political leadership in Italy: what consequences for parties & party systems?
Chairs: Arianna Giovannini (Leeds Metropolitan University) e Jim Newell (University of Salford).
Il panel è organizzato dallo standing group Italian Politics Specialist Group.
 
Titolo del saggio
Leaders as cognitive shortcuts: the role of reliability ratings in voting behavior at the 2014 European elections

Abstract
The trend towards the personalization and presidentialisation of politics seems to have become (in Italy, Europe and Advanced Western democracies) a response to the decline of party identification and party mobilization, with increasing consequences of partisan dealignment. After all, at the level of party politics, we are in the era of parties without partisans (Dalton and Wattenberg 2000; Scarrow 2000).
However, examining the triumph of the "Renzi's Party" at the 2014 European elections only through the lens of the personalization of politics is not enough. In fact, ideological factors such as the left-right ideological dimension still matter in the Italian electoral context (Itanes 2013; Salvati 2014). Moreover, any dealignment is often followed by a subsequent realignment between parties and voters in any democratic context (Wenzel and Inglehart 2011).
All this lead us to conceptualize leaders not simply as a synthesis of personal traits and characteristics, but also as cognitive shortcuts that encourage political judgements and decisions (Sniderman, Brody and Tetlock 1991). Within such interpretative framework, this paper is aimed at investigating how Italian voters were differentiated in adopting specific representations of the political competition in the last European elections. Reliability ratings of the leaders by the voters will be crucial under this point of view. Once established that voters use their ratings towards leaders as a kind of heuristic, we will test the extent to which such information is able to work as a summary measure of different representations of the political debate. Moreover, we will make use of survey data in order to understand whether and how such element was related to voting behavior in the context of the last European elections. Ultimately, we expect from the analysis the confirmation of the existence of different rating patterns within the electorate, of which we will try to reconstruct the general features and mechanisms of development.
 

sabato 31 maggio 2014

Articoli, commenti e analisi: elezioni europee/amministrative 2014 e riforma della legge elettorale (l'Italicum)

Per conto del prof. Alberto Martinelli, del prof. Nicola Pasini e del prof. Luciano M. Fasano, il dott. Mariano Cavataio (dottore di ricerca in Sociologia Politica e cultore della materia in Scienza Politica) è curatore di una raccolta di analisi, interviste ed editoriali dei maggiori intellettuali, politologi ed esperti di comportamento elettorale con riferimento al "come" e al "perché" dell'esito delle elezioni europee e amministrative 2014
 
 
Precedentemente, il dott. Mariano Cavataio ha curato una raccolta di interviste ed editoriali sul dibattito dei e tra i politologi relativamente alla riforma della legge elettorale (l'Italicum) per conto del prof. Nicola Pasini e del prof. Luciano M. Fasano nell'ambito dei materiali didattici messi a disposizione degli studenti frequentanti dei corsi A-K e L-Z di Scienza Politica (CdL SIE, a.a. 2013/2014) dell'Università degli Studi di Milano