The New Italian Republic: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to BerlusconiStephen Gundle, Simon Parker 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. |
Contents
the new Italian Republic | 1 |
Context | 17 |
Explaining Italys crisis | 19 |
Electoral reform and political change in Italy 19911994 | 40 |
The old party system | 57 |
Political Catholicism and the strange death of the Christian Democrats | 59 |
Italian Communism in the First Republic | 70 |
The rise and fall of Craxis Socialist Party | 83 |
Politics and society | 187 |
A legal revolution? The judges and Tangentopoli David Nelken | 189 |
The mass media and the political crisis | 204 |
The system of corrupt exchange in local government | 219 |
The resistible rise of the new Neapolitan Camorra | 232 |
The changing Mezzogiorno Between representations and reality | 245 |
Economic aspects of the crisis | 259 |
The economic elites and the political system | 261 |
The fate of the secular Centre The Liberals Republicans and Social Democrats | 97 |
The new parties | 109 |
The Northern League From regional party to party of government | 111 |
Forza Italia The new politics and old values of a changing Italy | 128 |
Towards a modern Right Alleanza Nazionale and the Italian Revolution | 145 |
The great failure? The Democratic Party of the Left in Italys transition | 157 |
The Left Opposition and the crisis Rifondazione Comunista and La Rete | 171 |
Excesses and limits of the public sector in the Italian economy The ongoing reform | 271 |
Industrial relations and the labour movement | 292 |
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Italian political reform in comparative perspective | 309 |
Index | 324 |
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