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Where are the doves? Explaining party support for military operations abroad in Italy.
- Source :
- West European Politics; Nov2020, Vol. 43 Issue 7, p1455-1479, 25p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Since the end of the Cold War, Italy has radically transformed its foreign and security policy, participating in several Military Operations Abroad (MOA) across the world. A few qualitative studies have already analysed how Italian parties debated and voted on this issue, underlining a bipartisan consensus between centre-left and centre-right parties, based on a common humanitarian narrative. This article provides a substantial methodological contribution to this research agenda, explaining party support in Italy for the six most relevant MOAs during the so-called 'Second Republic' (1994–2013), through the employment of automated text analysis and linear regression models. In line with existing literature on the party politics of military interventions, the findings indicate a curvilinear distribution of support across the left–right axis, the strong impact of government–opposition dynamics and the interaction between international legitimacy of the specific operation and ideological leaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01402382
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- West European Politics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144919025
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2019.1667164