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The Italian Legislative Speech Dataset (ILSD)
A project by Luigi Curini, Andrea Ceron & Paolo Martelli
What is ILSD? The Italian Legislative Speech Dataset (ILSD) is based upon a content analysis of all the investiture debates preceding the vote of confidence in the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1946 to 2018. The coding scheme of the dataset follows the same method employed by Comparative Manifesto Project. Specifically, for each legislative speech during a vote of investiture (one for each party), a number of quasi-sentences is identified and assigned to a number of pre-established categories that form the classification scheme. In particular, the original 56 categories of the CMP dataset have been extended to 68, to take into account the Italian political context (such as positive or negative references made by parties to the Catholic Church)
Number of parties considered: 63 (plus each cabinet)
Number of cabinet considered: 74 (including the non-investiture speeches)
Number of cases: 752
Every time you use the survey for your own research, please quote it as: Curini Luigi. “Government Survival the Italian Way: the Core and the Advantages of Policy Immobilism during the First Republic”, European Journal of Political Research, 50, 2011, 110-142; CuriniLuigi, and Paolo Martelli. I partiti nella Prima Repubblica. Maggioranze e governi dalla Costituente a Tangentopoli, Rome: Carocci, 2009.
Acknowledgements: ILSD was supported by the Italian Ministry for Research and Higher Education, Prin 2009, prot.2009TPW4NL_002. Special thanks to Alessandro del Tredici for his precious help in collecting and coding the legislative speech data.
Number of parties considered: 63 (plus each cabinet)
Number of cabinet considered: 74 (including the non-investiture speeches)
Number of cases: 752
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Every time you use the survey for your own research, please quote it as: Curini Luigi. “Government Survival the Italian Way: the Core and the Advantages of Policy Immobilism during the First Republic”, European Journal of Political Research, 50, 2011, 110-142; CuriniLuigi, and Paolo Martelli. I partiti nella Prima Repubblica. Maggioranze e governi dalla Costituente a Tangentopoli, Rome: Carocci, 2009.
Acknowledgements: ILSD was supported by the Italian Ministry for Research and Higher Education, Prin 2009, prot.2009TPW4NL_002. Special thanks to Alessandro del Tredici for his precious help in collecting and coding the legislative speech data.
Some works that employ ILSD
Curini, Luigi & Luca Pinto. L’arte di fare (e disfare) i governi: da De Gasperi a Renzi 70 anni di politica italiana, Milan: Egea, 2017
Curini, Luigi. An Italian Leitmotiv? Corruption and Competence in the Debates of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1946-2014), South European Society and Politics, 20(4), 2015, 509-531
Ceron, Andrea & Luigi Curini. The Letta Cabinet(s) Government Formation and (In)stability in Times of Crisis: a Spatial Approach. In Amie Krepel & Carlo Fusaro (eds.) Italian Politics: Still Waiting for the Transformation, 2014, 143-159, Berghahn Books
Borghetto, Enrico. Exploring Bill Winnowing in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1996-2012) Workshop “Parliamentary Scrutiny of EU Politics” Heidelberg University, 11 – 12 July 2014
Curini, Luigi, & Luca Pinto. More than Post-election Cabinets: Uncertainty and the “Magnitude of Change” during Italian Government Bargaining, International Political Science Review, DOI: 10.1177/0192512114544766
Curini, Luigi, & Andrea Ceron. Parties’ influence during government policy negotiations: parliamentary dynamics and spatial advantages in the First Italian Republic, Journal of Legislative Studies, 19(4), 2013, 429-449
Ceron, Andrea. Gamson Rule not for All. Patterns of Portfolio Allocation among Italian Party Factions, European Journal of Political Research, 2013, DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12020.
Curini, Luigi, & Luca Pinto. Government formation under the shadow of a core party. The case of the First Italian Republic, Party Politics, 19(3), 2013, 502-522
Ceron, Andrea. Bounded Oligarchy: How and When Factions Constrain Leaders in Party Position-taking, Electoral Studies, 31(4), 2012, 689-701.
Curini, Luigi, & Paolo Martelli. Ideological proximity and valence competition. Negative campaigning through allegation of corruption in the Italian legislative arena from 1946 to 1994, Electoral Studies, 29(4), 2010, 636-647
Curini, Luigi. An Italian Leitmotiv? Corruption and Competence in the Debates of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1946-2014), South European Society and Politics, 20(4), 2015, 509-531
Ceron, Andrea & Luigi Curini. The Letta Cabinet(s) Government Formation and (In)stability in Times of Crisis: a Spatial Approach. In Amie Krepel & Carlo Fusaro (eds.) Italian Politics: Still Waiting for the Transformation, 2014, 143-159, Berghahn Books
Borghetto, Enrico. Exploring Bill Winnowing in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1996-2012) Workshop “Parliamentary Scrutiny of EU Politics” Heidelberg University, 11 – 12 July 2014
Curini, Luigi, & Luca Pinto. More than Post-election Cabinets: Uncertainty and the “Magnitude of Change” during Italian Government Bargaining, International Political Science Review, DOI: 10.1177/0192512114544766
Curini, Luigi, & Andrea Ceron. Parties’ influence during government policy negotiations: parliamentary dynamics and spatial advantages in the First Italian Republic, Journal of Legislative Studies, 19(4), 2013, 429-449
Ceron, Andrea. Gamson Rule not for All. Patterns of Portfolio Allocation among Italian Party Factions, European Journal of Political Research, 2013, DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12020.
Curini, Luigi, & Luca Pinto. Government formation under the shadow of a core party. The case of the First Italian Republic, Party Politics, 19(3), 2013, 502-522
Ceron, Andrea. Bounded Oligarchy: How and When Factions Constrain Leaders in Party Position-taking, Electoral Studies, 31(4), 2012, 689-701.
Curini, Luigi, & Paolo Martelli. Ideological proximity and valence competition. Negative campaigning through allegation of corruption in the Italian legislative arena from 1946 to 1994, Electoral Studies, 29(4), 2010, 636-647