Università Roma Tre

Syllabus

Part one: General theory
Early and Late Constitutional Genesis of Political Parties; parties in the historical evolution of states and systems of government: parties and forms of government, a party criterion in the classification of forms of government, with particular attention to the realities of France, United Kingdom, United States; parties and classification of state forms.

Part Two: The parties in the constitutional orders of the post-war II period
Introduction to the Italian case: the debate on the Constituent and the art. 49 of the Constitution.
Protected and semi-protected democracies: Germany, Spain, Portugal, Greece.
Democracies of Eastern Europe: Poland, Czech Republic.
The parties in the multicultural state: the case of the Indian Union.

Part Three: The parties in the Italian republican system
Article. 49 and its enduring inactuation.
The clashes on internal democracy before the judges, in art. 49 unactuated.
The first implementing legislation of 2013-2014, the "statute norm" of Italicum and ongoing reform.
Analysis of the statutes of existing (and past) parties.
The distinctive signs of the parties: regulations and decisions concerning names and symbols.
Party financing: regulatory developments in Italy (and references to foreign experiences).
Discipline of political communication and electoral propaganda.

Part Four: Political Parties at European Level
The formation and consolidation of European political parties.
The ”parliamentarization process".
The Spitzenkandidaten method.
Regulation No. 1141/2014.

Students that will attend the lectures must study:

S. Bonfiglio, G. Maestri, R. L. Blanco Valdés, I partiti politici. Teoria e disciplina, Wolters Kluwer-Cedam, Padova, 2022.