03888oam 2200613I 450 991079246140332120230620234245.01-135-16493-21-135-16494-01-282-57178-897866125717870-203-85963-410.4324/9780203859636(CKB)2670000000009320(EBL)484747(OCoLC)609429560(SSID)ssj0000361994(PQKBManifestationID)12071547(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000361994(PQKBWorkID)10352216(PQKB)10578591(MiAaPQ)EBC484747(Au-PeEL)EBL484747(CaPaEBR)ebr10371455(CaONFJC)MIL257178(EXLCZ)99267000000000932020180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrItaly today the sick man of Europe /edited by Andrea Mammone and Giuseppe A. VeltriLondon ;New York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (278 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-56160-4 0-415-56159-0 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 republic7 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 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 problem13 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; IndexItaly 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 decliItalyPolitics and government1994-ItalyEconomic conditions1994-ItalySocial conditions1994-945.093Mammone Andrea1501516Veltri Giuseppe A750555FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910792461403321Italy today3825187UNINA