Electoral Reform and the Primaries: An American Lesson
The primaries are the mechanism that more than any other in the American system promotes the selection of a qualified political class. In areas with a strong Republican or Democratic prevalence, in many cases, primaries are the most important and less predictable elections.
Part of their positive impact is due to a clear regulation, variously declined by the States, from which other systems can draw valuable lessons. Especially the new Italian electoral system, where the primary elections could prove to be a democratically viable way to determine the names to be put on top of the blocked lists.
That's why the Dondena Centre invited James Snyder, a Harvard political scientist, to hold the fifth Alberto Dondena Lecture. The 2015 edition of the lecture will be held on Thursday 14 at 17:30 in classroom N07, piazza Sraffa 13.