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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453648103321

Autore

Shin Michael E (Michael Edward)

Titolo

Berlusconi's Italy [[electronic resource] ] : mapping contemporary Italian politics / / Michael E. Shin and John A. Agnew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008

ISBN

9786611879013

1-281-87901-0

1-59213-718-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AgnewJohn A

Disciplina

324.945/0929

Soggetti

Voting - Italy

Elections - Italy - History

Political geography

Electronic books.

Italy Politics and government 1994-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-163) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Berlusconi's Italy -- The geography of the new bipolarity, 1994-2006 -- Party replacement, Italian style -- The geographical secret to Berlusconi's success -- What went up later came down -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Berlusconi's Italy provides a fresh, thoroughly-informed account of how Italy's richest man came to be its political leader. Without dismissing the importance of personalities and political parties, it emphasizes the significance of changes in voting behaviors that led to the rise-and eventual fall-of Silvio Berlusconi, the millionaire media baron who became Prime Minister. Armed with new data and new analytic tools, Michael Shin and John Agnew use recently developed methods of spatial analysis, to offer a compelling new argument about contextual re-creation and mutation. They reve