The Legislative Activity of Technocrats: An Updating of Indicators at the (Early) End of the Monti Government

After about thirteen months in office, the experience of the technocratic government led by Mario Monti came to an end. The objective of this article is certainly not to provide a definitive assessment of the government’s performance. It is arguably too soon for this. We are, however, able to provide data and information that can serve such a purpose. We do so by updating the usual battery of indicators of the legislative activity of the executive at the end of its term of office. The volume of government initiatives; the type of legislative proposals placed before Parliament; the ‘actors’ (from within the ministerial team) responsible for government initiatives; the link between the initiatives and the Government’s programme; the degree of success of the Government’s initiatives on the floor of Parliament: these are the principle dimensions of our analysis.