Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Running a factor analysis reveals that it was a two-dimensional space: with the votes on labour rights clustering together on a first (economic left-right) dimension, and the pattern of votes on the citizenship initiative clustering on a second (social libertarian-authoritarian) dimension. 4/ 120 0
Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Some places (e.g. Bolzano) was in the right-libertarian corner, others (e.g. Naples) were left-libertarian, while Florence/Bologna/Rome were more libertarian than left, and many smaller rural places where more authoritarian than left. 5/ 240 0
Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Correction: I mean: Bolzano is in the "right-authoritarian" corner. Sorry! 000 0
Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 13/06/2025So, combining the two issues might have been a mistake. Combining a "left" with a "libertarian" initiative enabled the right-authoritarians (FdI, Lega) to mobilize right-libertarians (against labour rights) and left-authoritarians (against citizenship rights) ... as Riker would have predicted! 6/ 290 0