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UNINA9910458990303321 |
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Titolo |
Italy today : the sick man of Europe / / edited by Andrea Mammone and Giuseppe A. Veltri |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-16493-2 |
1-135-16494-0 |
1-282-57178-8 |
9786612571787 |
0-203-85963-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MammoneAndrea |
VeltriGiuseppe A |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
Italy Politics and government 1994- |
Italy Economic conditions 1994- |
Italy Social conditions 1994- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Map of Italy's regions; 1 A 'sick man' in Europe; Part I: Politics and society; 2 Elites and the democratic disease; 3 Common manifestoes and coalition governance: How political leaders missed the window of opportunity; 4 The programmatic convergence of parties and their weakness in policy making; 5 When politics matters: Federalism, Italian style; 6 Family politics, the Catholic Church and the transformation of family life in the Second republic |
7 The media between market and politicsPart II: History, memory and politics; 8 The legacy of the strategy of tension and the armed conflict in a context of (non)reconciliation; 9 Fascism as 'heritage' in contemporary Italy; Part III: Institutional(ized) Exclusion?; 10 The Northern League and its 'innocuous' xenophobia; 11 'Gypsies out of Italy!': Social exclusion and racial discrimination of Roma and Sinti in |
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Italy; 12 The Catholic Church, universal truth and the debate on national identity and immigration: A new model of 'selective solidarity'; Part IV: Mezzogiorno: A never-ending problem |
13 The strongest mafia: 'Ndrangheta made in Calabria14 revisiting Naples: Clientelism and organized crime; Part V: Economy and political economy; 15 Industrialization, convergence and governance; 16 Twenty years of European funding: Italy is still struggling with implementation; 17 Labour and welfare reforms: The short life of labour unity; 18 The crisis of family firms and the decline of Italian capitalism; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Italy Today represents one of the most comprehensive examinations of contemporary Italy. It is a provocative and an innovative collection that aims to highlight the current 'crisis' of the country through an analysis of several different 'dark shadows' of contemporary Italian society.Italy already had a long history of 'unsolved' issues, several chronic problems and contradictions that have been ignored for a very long time, during which they have assumed dramatic proportions and gravity. The peninsula has now become the 'Sick Man of Europe', a country facing a veritable decli |
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