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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451129803321

Autore

Parker Simon

Titolo

New Italian Republic [[electronic resource] ] : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

1-280-32085-0

0-203-43144-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GundleStephen

Disciplina

320.4509045

320.945

Soggetti

Democracy

Italy

Italy - Politics and government - 1994-

Judicial power

Political parties

Political Science

Democracy - Italy

Political parties - Italy

Judicial power - Italy

Government - Europe

Government - Non-U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction: the new Italian Republic; Explaining Italy's crisis; Electoral reform and political change in Italy, 1991  1994; Political Catholicism and the strange death of the Christian Democrats; Italian Communism in the First Republic; The rise and fall of Craxi's Socialist Party; The fate of the secular Centre: the Liberals, Republicans and Social Democrats; The Northern League: from regional party to party of government; Forza Italia: the new politics and old values of a changing Italy



Towards a modern Right: Alleanza Nazionale and the 'Italian Revolution'The great failure? The Democratic Party of the Left in Italy's transition; The 'Left Opposition' and the crisis: Rifondazione Comunista and La Rete; A legal revolution? The judges and Tangentopoli; The mass media and the political crisis; The system of corrupt exchange in local government; The resistible rise of the new Neapolitan Camorra; The changing Mezzogiorno: between

Sommario/riassunto

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.