Abstract
The importance of electoral change as a factor of party system transformation in post-1992 Italy is evaluated by observing two distinct components of electoral change: changes in electoral behaviour and changes in the electoral law, and their impact in the different arenas (electoral, parliamentary, etc.) in which parties compete as individual independent actors or as components of more or less organic coalitions. The analysis of numerous party system indicators shows that electoral factors are not only responsible for most of the changes which occurred in the party system after the effects of Tangentopoli were exhausted, but also for the creation of a structural divergence between the electoral and the parliamentary party systems.
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