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Vincenzo Emanuele
@vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science and Deputy Director of CISE, Luiss, Rome. Author for Routledge and Palgrave. Cleavages, elections, new parties, party system change, technocracy, party competition, and voting behavior. Personal views only.
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🧵 Posting also here our new article out in JEPP (Open Acess)!
With Mirko Crulli, we explore the structure of political cleavages in Western Europe — bringing Rokkan’s classic theory into the 21st century.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Here are the main takeaways 👇
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Tomorrow from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., we at the Italian Center for Electoral Studies will host a webinar with @sldelange.bsky.social to analyze the evolution of the Dutch party system after the recent 2025 election!

Info and link to join here: scienzepolitiche.luiss.it/research-sem...
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I have updated my electoral volatility dataset for 2025. You can find the new data and related information here www.vincenzoemanuele.com/dataset-of-e...
The dataset is now 10 years old and I'm proud it has become a reference for many party system scholars across the world! ✅
Dataset of Electoral Volatility
VINCENZO EMANUELE
www.vincenzoemanuele.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Electoral change in 2025 has been remarkable in the #Netherlands, thanks to the collapse of NSC and large vote shifts among established parties. The election is the third most-volatile in country's history and among the top-15 in post-1945 Western Europe (the 10th for RegV) according to my data.
October 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Happy to share my our publication in @sespjournal.bsky.social by Tiago Silva and me on the 2024 EP Elections in Portugal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10...., part of a Special Issue on the 2024 EP Elections in Southern Europe, edited by Aldo Paparo, @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social and myself. 1/5
The 2024 European Parliament elections in Portugal: media, results, and vote determinants in national and European elections
This study examines the 2024 European Parliament election in Portugal by testing the second-order national election (SONE) model across three key dimensions: media coverage, electoral outcomes, and...
www.tandfonline.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Happy to see that our article, “Bringing Rokkan into the twenty-first century: the cleavage structure of Western Europe”, coauthored with @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social, has made it into the top 5 most read in @jeppjournal.bsky.social over the past year! Proof that cleavage theory is alive and well.
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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5/ @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social & Bruno Marino test Lipset & Rokkan’s famous freezing hypothesis w fresh data, finding some conditions for freezing L&R hypothesize are *not* associated with cleavage structuring and other societal/institutional factors were overlooked.

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🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social
'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇

Read the full article (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🧵 Posting also here our new article out in JEPP (Open Acess)!
With Mirko Crulli, we explore the structure of political cleavages in Western Europe — bringing Rokkan’s classic theory into the 21st century.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Here are the main takeaways 👇
September 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
📣New #openaccess publication on Western European #party systems within the #Sartori symposium on IPSR.
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A short 🧵👇
Party system types and the decline of systemness in Western Europe: are party system classifications still useful? | Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica | Cambridge...
Party system types and the decline of systemness in Western Europe: are party system classifications still useful?
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September 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social
'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇

Read the full article (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM