The New Italian Republic: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi

by Stephen Gundle (Editor), Simon Parker (Editor)

Overview

The New Italian Republic charts the breakdown of the old party system and examines the changed political climate that has allowed Berlusconi to rise as Italy's new master and subsequently precipitated his rapid fall from power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415121620
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/21/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stephen Gundle, Simon Parker

Table of Contents

Introduction: The New Italian Republic I Context 1. Explaining Italy's Crisis 2. Electoral Reform and Political Change in Italy 1991-94 II The Old Party System 1. Political Catholicism and the Strange Death of the Christian Democrats 2. Italian Communism in the First Republic 3. The Rise and fall of Craxi's Socialist Party 4. The Fate of the Secular Centre: The Liberals, Republicans and the Social Democrats III The New Parties 7. The Northern League from Regional Party to Party of Government 8. Forza Italia: The New Politics and Old Values of a Changing Italy 9. towards a Modern Right: Alleanza Nazionale and the Italian Revolution 10. The Great Failure? The PDs in Italy's Transition 11. The Left Oppossition and the crisis: Rifondazione Comunista and La Rete IV Politics and Society 12. A Legal Revolution? The Judges and the Tagentopoli 13. The Mass media and the Political Crisis 14. The System of Corrupt Exchange in Local Government 15. The Resistable Rise of the New Neopolitan Camorra 16. The Changing Mezzogiorno: Between Representations and Reality V Economic Aspects of the Crisis 17. The Economic Elites and the Political System 18. Excesses anf Limits of the Public Sector in the Italian Economy 19. Industrial Relations and the Labour Movement VI Conclusion 20 Italian Political Reform in Comparative Perspective

Editorial Reviews

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