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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967531703321

Autore

Shin Michael E (Michael Edward)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008

ISBN

9786611879013

9781281879011

1281879010

9781592137183

1592137180

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AgnewJohn A

Disciplina

324.945/0929

Soggetti

Voting - Italy

Elections - Italy - History

Political geography

Italy Politics and government 1994-2018

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