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Book Synopsis Government and Politics of Italy by : Robert Leonardi
Download or read book Government and Politics of Italy written by Robert Leonardi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political history of Italy has been an undeniably turbulent one. The country's political system has been repeatedly threatened by the historical existence of extremist parties on the left and right, an economy which struggles to adapt, the cleavage between a developed north and an underdeveloped south, the challenge posed by terrorist groups and organized crime, high public debt, and governments that last on average only ten months. Paradoxically, however, Italy continues to muddle through from one political crisis to another with one of the world's highest standards of living and quality of life. What is the secret of Italian politics?
Book Synopsis Government and Politics of Italy by : Henry Russell Spencer
Download or read book Government and Politics of Italy written by Henry Russell Spencer and published by Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y., World book Company. This book was released on 1932 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Institutions in Italy by : Maurizio Cotta
Download or read book Political Institutions in Italy written by Maurizio Cotta and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a number of themes, paradoxes and problems inherent to Italian politics, and considers the relationship between the Italian domestic system and the international system. It focuses on changes that have occurred in the last 10-15 years, contextualised within a longer historical framework, including the post-war period.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics by : Erik Jones
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics written by Erik Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Italy by : James L. Newell
Download or read book The Politics of Italy written by James L. Newell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative text offers a completely fresh approach to Italian politics by placing it in its historical, institutional, social and international contexts. Students will get to grips with the theories and concepts of comparative politics and how they apply specifically to Italy, while gaining real insight into more controversial topics such as the Mafia, corruption and the striking success of Berlusconi. The textbook uses clear and simple language to critically analyze Italy's institutions, its political culture, parties and interest groups, public policy, and its place in the international system. Often regarded as an anomaly, Italy is frequently described in terms of 'crisis', 'instability' and 'alienation'. Sceptical of these conventional accounts, Newell argues that, if understood in its own terms, the Italian political system is just as effective as other established democracies. With features including text boxes and further reading suggestions, this is an unbeatable introduction to the politics of Italy.
Book Synopsis Italian Politics by : Roberto D'alimonte
Download or read book Italian Politics written by Roberto D'alimonte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Italian Politics by : Mario Caciagli
Download or read book Italian Politics written by Mario Caciagli and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1996-09-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains two invaluable reference sections: a full chronology of the political events of the year and an appendix providing a wealth of statistical data on Italian election results, political parties, and the economy.
Book Synopsis Italy’s Contemporary Politics by : James L. Newell
Download or read book Italy’s Contemporary Politics written by James L. Newell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Italy written by Frederic Spotts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Italian Politics by : Martin J. Bull
Download or read book Italian Politics written by Martin J. Bull and published by Polity. This book was released on 2005 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Parties and Democracy in Italy by : James L Newell
Download or read book Parties and Democracy in Italy written by James L Newell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: A guide to the changing place of political parties within the Italian political system, seeking to shed light on how the parties operate and their role in the country's politics. Starting from a recognition of the traditional centrality of parties in Italian political life, the book's main focus is on the consequences and causes of the transformation in the party system which began to unfold from 1989 onwards. Arguing that the latter has its roots in the specific choices made by the traditional parties as they attempted to adapt to change in their electoral environment, the book then proceeds to examine what effects the changing party system is having on such traditional, "party-driven" features of Italian politics such as "sottogoverno" and "lotizzazione" and on the functioning of such institutions as parliament and the executive. The book concludes by attempting to assess whether parties are still central to political and civil society or whether their role has diminished in importance.
Book Synopsis The Challenge of Coalition Government by : Nicolò Conti
Download or read book The Challenge of Coalition Government written by Nicolò Conti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the advent of the Second Republic in Italy in the mid-1990s, a new generation of politicians has announced a shift in the system toward greater governmental leadership, policy innovation, government accountability and responsiveness to the citizens. Yet in recent years government has experienced frequent crises and deadlocks, policy blockades and undisciplined parliamentary majorities. Has the attempt to change the nature of the Italian government totally failed? This book addresses this question by empirically assessing and theoretically evaluating the outcomes of the new system. It asks whether there has really been a shift toward a more majoritarian democracy and examines why alternation in power has failed to produce a more efficient and responsive government. It evaluates the connections between cabinet, parliament, parties and citizens, and in doing so, brings together diverse areas of inquiry such as government, legislative, party and public opinion studies. Drawing from comparative theory but also considering the impact of country-specific determinants, it explains the very nature of the Italian government from the point of view of its achievements and its failures. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of government, comparative and Italian politics, and more broadly those with an interest in government, democracy and Italy.
Book Synopsis Democracy, Italian Style by : Joseph LaPalombara
Download or read book Democracy, Italian Style written by Joseph LaPalombara and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes Italian politics, argues that crises that threaten to destroy the government actually make democracy there stronger, and discusses the Italian political parties
Book Synopsis The Politics of Italy by : James L Newell, Professor
Download or read book The Politics of Italy written by James L Newell, Professor and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative text offers a completely fresh approach to Italian politics by placing it in its historical, institutional, social and international contexts. Students will get to grips with the theories and concepts of comparative politics and how they apply specifically to Italy, while gaining real insight into more controversial topics such as the Mafia, corruption and the striking success of Berlusconi. The textbook uses clear and simple language to critically analyze Italy's institutions, its political culture, parties and interest groups, public policy, and its place in the international system. Often regarded as an anomaly, Italy is frequently described in terms of 'crisis', 'instability' and 'alienation'. Sceptical of these conventional accounts, Newell argues that, if understood in its own terms, the Italian political system is just as effective as other established democracies. With features including text boxes and further reading suggestions, this is an unbeatable introduction to the politics of Italy.
Book Synopsis A Political History of Italy by : Norman Kogan
Download or read book A Political History of Italy written by Norman Kogan and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italy written by Sondra Z. Koff and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to equip students with a sound understanding of the basics of Italian politics and government, and to provide clear insights into the intricacies of Italian political behaviour.
Book Synopsis Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy by : Judith Chubb
Download or read book Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy written by Judith Chubb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Italy of the 1980s, which represents an unparalleled example of dualistic development - deeply divided between North and South.
