TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruno Mascitelli
AU  - Rory Steele
AU  - Simone Battiston
PY  - 2013
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035105742
TI  - The 2001 Italian expatriate vote: Was it worth it?
T2  - A view from the Africa-Asia-Oceania-Antarctica college
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0574-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053035
N2  - This book examines the implementation and consequences of the Italian expatriate vote and representation introduced in 2001 in the external electoral colleges with special attention to the Electoral College known as Africa-Asia-Oceania-Antarctica. The Italian elections of 2006, 2008 and 2013 were important moments where the expatriate vote was expressed providing results which Italian lawmakers may have not anticipated. Moreover, the electoral expressions of the external colleges were not always in accord with Italians ones. This study examines how the stakeholders in the Africa-Asia-Oceania-Antarctica college understood and perceived this voting and representation facility after its implementation. What they thought in 2001 and what they think now. The study seeks the views of focus groups across numerous cities in Australia, interviews the protagonists and provides critical commentary on the future of this «right» and whether all this effort «was worth it» in providing Italians abroad with external voting and representation in elections and referendums.
KW  - implementation, future, stakeholders
LA  - English
ER  -