The intermediate test for the students of Decision Making and Policies in Democracy will take place on Monday, 27th October 2025, h 14:30, Aula Caioli, Building A, 2nd floor, right wing. 

The test consists of open questions based on the content of the lectures and the following readings:

Reading List Decision-Making and Policies in Democracy

2025-26

I Part

1. 1.       Foundation of the positive theory of democracy

J.A. Schumpeter, chapters 21 and 22 Capitalism, socialism and Democracy

https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/791177/mod_resource/content/1/Joseph-schumpeter%20CLASSICAL%20AND%20ANOTHER%20THEORY%20-capitalism-socialism-and-democracy-2006-273-306.pdf

R. A Dahl, chapters 1 and 3 Polyarchy. Opposition and Democracy

https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/785418/mod_resource/content/1/Dahl%20Poliarchy001.pdf

https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/785420/mod_resource/content/1/Dahl%20historical%20sequences006.pdf

G. Ieraci and A. Paulon, Measures of Freedom, Democracy and The ‘Freedom In The World Index’ (QUASP 2010)

https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/784572/mod_resource/content/1/Ieraci%20e%20Paulon.pdf

G. Ieraci and F. Battera, They Shoot Rulers, (QUASP 2023)

https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/784573/mod_resource/content/1/IERACI%20BATTERA%20QUASP%202023%20THEY%20SHOOT%20RULERS%20printed%20version%201124-7959-38545-3.pdf

G. Ieraci, Power in Office, CPE (2020)

https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/784743/mod_resource/content/1/Ieraci-2020-Constitutional_Political_Economy.pdf

1. 2.       The Economic Theory of Democracy

Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy, New York, Harper&Row, 1957 (ch. 8):

https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/784553/mod_resource/content/1/DOWNS%20ECONOMIC%20THEORY%20OF%20DEMOCRACY.pdf

1. 3.       Political Space and Party Systems

G. Sartori, Parties and Party Systems (1976), ch. 10:

https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/791189/mod_resource/content/1/Sartori%2C%20Parties%20and%20party%20systems.pdf

G. Ieraci, Positional or Valence Populism? A Cognitive and Inductive Approach to Governments, Political Space and the Party System in Contemporary Italy (forthcoming, QUASP, 3/2025)

https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/791190/mod_resource/content/1/IERACI%20Positional%20Valence%20Populism%20Italy%20%282018-2023%29.pdf

G. Ieraci, Government Alternation and Patterns of Competition in Europe (WEP, 2012)

https://moodle2.units.it/pluginfile.php/791191/mod_resource/content/1/IERACI%20WEP%20Government%20Alternation%20and%20Patterns%20of%20Competition%20in%20Europe%20%20Comparative%20Data%20in%20Search%20of%20Explanations.pdf