Author : Andrea Mammone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135164940
Offers an analyses of contemporary Italy. This book contains essays that aim to highlight the 'crisis' of the country.
Author : Hilary Partridge
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
In the early 1990s, the parties that had ruled Italy since the end of WWII collapsed, and in 1996, the Communists' successors, who no longer appeared as a threat after the demise of the Communist regimes in Europe, took power as the leaders of a new alliance of progressive parties. Looks at legacies of Italy's past, the constitution and institutional arrangements, the regime of the parties, the left, and terrorism and organized crime, and discusses the country today and its place in the world. Includes a chronology and a list of leaders. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Luisa Quartermaine
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780859892667
Author : Martin Bull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135222819
Since 1989 Italian politics has witnessed changes that have placed it under an international spotlight. This analysis looks at this period of Italian politics through the prism of the changes of the early 1990s.
Author : Martin J. Bull
Publisher : Polity
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745612997
This wide-ranging book seeks to unravel the complexities of post-1992 Italian democracy. It takes as its point of departure the dramatic political tensions of the early 1990s and evaluates these against the background of an analysis of the ‘First Republic’ that predates these changes. Martin Bull and James Newell, renowned scholars of Italian Politics, argue that the early 1990s revolution in Italian party politics should be seen both as a major cause of subsequent changes in the political system and as a consequence of longer-term, still on-going changes in the Italian polity. The books explains how we can understand in this light the mixed success of the parties in attempting to act as autonomous vehicles of reform – and therefore why, if we are witnessing a transformation to a ‘Second Republic’, many of its key features still remain to be shaped. Each of the thematic chapters clearly juxtaposes Italy as it was before the 1990s with Italy today, thereby evaluating the degree to which the early 1990s can be seen as a watershed. In this way the book offers a novel account of both contemporary political developments and their historical significance in teh context of the ‘Italian political model’ that took shape in the period after 1945. This will be essential reading for all students of Italian and Comparative Politics, who will find the clarity and breadth of the book invaluable. Equally, scholars will be fascinated by this new and compelling argument.
Author : Erik Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Italy
ISBN : 0199669740
The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies. Under the hegemonic influence of Christian Democracy in the early post-World War II decades, Italy went through a period of rapid growth and political transformation. In part this resulted in tumult and a crisis of governability; however, it also gave rise to innovation in the form of Eurocommunism and new forms of political accommodation. The great strength of Italy lay in its constitution; its great weakness lay in certain legacies of the past. Organized crime--popularly but not exclusively associated with the mafia--is one example. A self-contained and well entrenched 'caste' of political and economic elites is another. These weaknesses became apparent in the breakdown of political order in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This ushered in a combination of populist political mobilization and experimentation with electoral systems design, and the result has been more evolutionary than transformative. Italian politics today is different from what it was during the immediate post-World War II period, but it still shows many of the influences of the past.
Author : Roberto D'alimonte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429968108
The year 1996 in Italian politics was a year rich in novelty. After the "stalled transition" of 1995, the political atmosphere had begun to change. Most obvious was the end of Dini's unelected government of technocrats, supported by a heterogeneous group in Parliament, and its replacement with Romano Prodi's government, a coalition of the parties that had won the general election on April 21, 1996. But an even more important change and one more likely to be remembered was a new climate of dialogue amongst the main political forces that emerged from this period of transition between two republics. In 1996, despite the general elections, cooperation again became part of the political game.
Author : James L. Newell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000228444
In early 2020 Italy was a country whose political parties stood as significant obstacles in the way of resolution of its social and economic problems. The purpose of this book is to help the reader to understand how Italian politics had reached this point. It does this by tracing the most significant processes of political, economic and social change to have marked Italian history in recent years back to their roots in the Italian political system as it emerged at the end of the Second World War. Starting with the restoration of democracy, the volume discusses the post-war party system and how it came under increasing pressure from the mid-1970s. From there it discusses the political upheavals of the early 1990s and the transformations they led to, the rise and fall of Silvio Berlusconi, and the watershed election of 2018. In short, the book provides a narrative. Narratives tell us who we are, where we have come from, where we are now and where we are going. Without them, we cannot make sense of the world. At the end of this narrative, if it has done its job properly, Italian politics and current affairs should ‘make sense’ if before they seemed confusing.
Author : Mario B. Mignone
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781433101878
Italy Today is a concise narrative of the nation's stunning transformation from the ashes of World War II to the leading economic and cultural power it is today. This book provides insights into the dynamics of Italy's progression from the Second World War, through the anthropologically revolutionary 1970s and '80s, and into the complexities of a postindustrial nation, negotiating the challenges created by industrial, economic, and cultural globalization. Encompassing the cultural, political, and economic spectrums, topics include: communism; socialism; foreign relations; terrorism; industrial and social transformations; education; emigration and immigration; family tradition; feminism; the transformation of class and gender roles; political favoritism and corruption; popular culture; culture and civil society; the broader problems of the development of civil society and the rule of law in southern Italy; and the role of politics in shaping contemporary Italy. The book devotes particular attention to the controversial issues of the role of the family in Italian society and economy, the insidious presence of the Mafia, the lasting influence of Catholicism, the impact of television, and the country's often unstable politics, framing all these as the result of a complex and unique relationship between the individual and the state, with the family acting as intermediary. Four major sections analyze politics, the economy, society, and mass culture, and comprise a portrait of contemporary Italy that will appeal to a broad range of scholars, students, and general readers.
Author : Frederic Spotts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 1986-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521304511
Italy is the world's sixth economic power, lies in a key geopolitical position, and was a founding member of NATO and the European Community. Yet of all the major European states Italy is the least understood and studied. This book provides the only up-to-date survey of the Italian political scene during the forty years since World War II. It describes the inner-dynamics of the political parties, the day-to-day functioning of the governing institutions, and the interaction of the country's economic, social, and political life. It shows how a political system, riven with difficulties and seemingly in a continual crisis, survives and prospers - in some ways more successfully than its purportedly better-governed neighbours. Based on the authors' first-hand observations of Italian politics, the book offers a valuable insight into a subtle and complex, but fascinating political world.
