Abstract
A number of the chapters in this volume, from different perspectives and using a variety of data, have already shed light on the peculiar outcomes of an election whose results were both decisive and largely expected. However, the longer-term implications of the election are, for the most part, difficult to decipher: The changes in the nature of the electoral supply and in the configuration of the party system would suggest the likelihood of a number of possible interesting developments in terms of the composition of Parliament, in the emergence of a new pattern of executive-legislative relationships and, in the longer term, in the overall mode of functioning of the political system. But to what extent are such possibilities likely to come to pass?
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Russo, F., Verzichelli, L. (2009). A Different Legislature? The Parliamentary Scene Following the 2008 Elections. In: Newell, J.L. (eds) The Italian General Election of 2008. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234130_12
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