Critical election and a new party system: Italy after the 2015 regional election

摘要: ABSTRACTAlthough party system change has been widely explored, it is less so for the regional level. The article provides first systematic attempt to discuss at level in Italy. Through a comprehensive overview of five 1995–2015 elections, indicators change, based on an original database, are explored. It will be showed that 2013–15 election cycle while fragmentation, volatility and recomposition reached their maximum high – parallel what happened 1995 bipolarism, one main features Italian since mid-1990s, dramatically dropped replaced by three-pole configuration. These results, consistency with relevant junctures national 1994 2013, may allow state occurred thus consider elections as critical.