Dr Mark Donovan - PhD, MSc, BA
Overview
Position:
Senior
Lecturer
Email:
Donovan@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 208 74727
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74946
Extension: 74727
Location: Room 1.23a, 65-68 Park Place
I am interested in political parties and party systems, elections and referendums, party system change and electoral reform. I am particularly interested in party system theory and in party and electoral politics in Italy, especially of the centre and right and I am currently writing a book on the Italian party system and its parties. More generally, I am interested in all aspects of Italian government and politics.
I have supervised two PhDs to completion, one on Italian foreign policy and one on the Northern League. I am currently supervising a PhD on women’s employment policy in Italy, 1996-2006.
Selected Publications
I have edited or co-edited five volumes, including one special issue of Modern Italy, reflecting my interests in party systems and Italian history and politics, and contributed articles to West European Politics, the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, and Modern Italy. Recent publications include:
The invention of bipolar politics in Italy', The Italianist, 2011, 31, 1: 62-78
‘The Centre in Italian Politics’, a special issue of Modern Italy, November, 2008 (co-edited with Professor James Newell, Salford University).
Italian Politics: Frustrated Aspirations for Change, Berghahn, 2008 (co-edited with Paolo Onofri); Italian edition: Politica in Italia. I fatti dell’anno e le interpretazioni 2008, Il Mulino
‘The Processes of Alliance Formation’, in J. Newell (ed), The 2006 Elections in Italy, Manchester University Press, 2007.
‘The Radicals: An Ambiguous Contribution to Political Innovation’, in A.Cento Bull and A. Giorgio (eds),Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney, 2006, pp. 122-31.
Research Group
European Governance, Identities and Public Policies
Related Links
Modern Italy Journal
West European Politics Journal
Italian Politics Specialist Group of the PSA
Publications
Refereed journal articles
‘Nationalism, Democracy and State-Rebuilding in Italy’, in Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2, 2, 2001, pp.241-259.
‘A New Republic in Italy? The May 2001 Election’, West European Politics, 24, 4, October 2001, pp.193-205.
‘The Italian State: No Longer Catholic, No Longer Christian’, John Madeley & Zsolt Enyedi (eds.), West European Politics, 26, 1, 2003, pp.95-116.
‘Berlusconi, strong government and the Italian state’, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 8, 2, 2003, pp.231-48.
‘Introduction: Centrism in Italian Politics’ in J. Newell and M. Donovan (eds), Centrism in Italian Politics, special issue of Modern Italy, 13, 4, 2008, 381-397
‘The “centre” between structure and agency: The Italian case’, in J. Newell and M. Donovan (eds), Centrism in Italian Politics, special issue of Modern Italy, 13, 4, 2008, 415-428
Edited books
Italian Politics: Frustrated Aspirations for Change, Berghahn, 2009 (co-edited with Paolo Onofri); Italian edition: Politica in Italia. I fatti dell’anno e le interpretazioni 2008, Il Mulino
Changing Party Systems in Western Europe, Pinter, 1999, co-edited with David Broughton;
Writing National Histories: Westem Europe Since 1800, Routledge, 1999, co-edited with Stefan Berger and Kevin Passmore;
Italy, Ashgate Press, 1998, a two-volume reader.
Chapter in book
‘Italy: A Dramatic Case of Secularisation?’ in D.Broughton and H-M ten Napel (eds.), Religion and Politics in Western Europe, Routledge/ECPR, London, 2000, pp.140-156.
‘The processes of alliance formation’, in J. Newell (ed.), The Italian general election of 2001. Berlusconi’s victory, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002, pp.105-123.
‘Reconfiguring sovereignty in Italy: reasserting the nation, reinventing the state’, in Thomas Ilgen (ed.), Reconfigured Sovereignty: Multi-Layered Governance in the Global Age, Ashgate Press, 2003, pp.93-110.
‘The Governance of the Centre-Right’, in V Della Sala and S Fabbrini (eds), Italy Between Europeanization And Domestic Politics, Oxford and New York, Berghahn (2004) pp.80-98.
‘Intra- and Inter-alliance Relations after the 2004 European and Provincial Elections’ in J. Newell and C. Guarnieri (eds), Italian Politics. Quo Vadis?, Berghahn, Oxford and New York, 2005, pp.47-64.
‘The Radicals: An Ambiguous Contribution to Political Innovation’, in A.Cento Bull and A. Giorgio (eds), Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney, 2006, pp.122-31.
‘The Processes of Alliance Formation’ in J. Newell (ed.) The Italian General Election of 2006: Romano Prodi’s Victory, Manchester University Press, 2008, pp. 115-135
‘The Center-Right: Conflict, Unity, and Permanent Mobilization’, in M. Donovan and P. Onofri (eds), Italian Politics: Frustrated Aspirations for Change, Berghahn, 2009.
‘The Processes of Alliance Formation’ in J. Newell (ed.) The Italian General Election of 2008: Berlusconi Strikes Back, Manchester University Press, 2009, pp. 118-135
‘Instability, Anti-politics, and Frustrated Aspirations for Change’, in M. Donovan and P. Onofri (eds), Italian Politics: Frustrated Aspirations for Change, Berghahn, 2009, 39-50
Report, briefings and working papers
Since 2001, I have written the yearly reports on political developments in Italy for the Annual Register, CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), Cambridge Information Group.
Other publications
Various (15) encyclopedia entries in: G.Moliterno (ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture, Routledge, 2000.
Biography
Career Profile
I graduated with a BA (Hons) in Russian and Soviet Studies from Portsmouth in 1977. After 8 years in employment, approximately half of which I spent in Germany, where I learnt German, I returned to the academic dimension of the real world, obtaining an MSc (Distinction) at the LSE (in West European Politics) in 1986. I then completed a PhD, also at the LSE, on the strategy of the Italian Christian Democratic Party. Since 1990, I have been in Cardiff. Between 1994-2000, I was Reviews Editor for West European Politics and from1999-2005 I was Joint Editor of Modern Italy, the flagship journal of the The Association of Modern Italy.
Memberships / External Activities
I am a member of the PSA (Political Studies Association), of its Specialist Group in Italian Politics, and of ASMI (Association for the Study of Modern Italy).
Teaching Profile
In Year 1, I co-teach both Introduction to Government and Introduction to Political Science. In Year 2 I teach a triple module in Italian Government and Politics. At Masters level I co-teach a module on 'Public Opinion, Parties and Democracy', and am entirely responsible for the modules: 'Research Methods: Approaches to Knowledge', ‘State Crisis: Changing Governance in Italy’ and 'Parties, Party Systems and Democracy'.