03043nam 2200601Ia 450 991097138670332120251116173514.01-280-32085-00-203-43144-8(CKB)1000000000255040(EBL)166830(OCoLC)171117265(SSID)ssj0000210455(PQKBManifestationID)11184923(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210455(PQKBWorkID)10291084(PQKB)10348644(MiAaPQ)EBC166830(PPN)198459386(EXLCZ)99100000000025504019950804d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe new Italian Republic from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi /edited by Stephen Gundle and Simon ParkerLondon ;New York Routledge19961 online resource (viii, 334 pages) illustrationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-12161-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ItalyTowards 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: betweenThe 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.DemocracyItalyPolitical partiesItalyJudicial powerItalyItalyPolitics and government1976-1994DemocracyPolitical partiesJudicial power320.4509045320.945Gundle Stephen1956-312765Parker Simon1964-476641MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971386703321The new Italian Republic4491651UNINA