LEADER 03888oam 2200613I 450 001 9910792461403321 005 20230620234245.0 010 $a1-135-16493-2 010 $a1-135-16494-0 010 $a1-282-57178-8 010 $a9786612571787 010 $a0-203-85963-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203859636 035 $a(CKB)2670000000009320 035 $a(EBL)484747 035 $a(OCoLC)609429560 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000361994 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12071547 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000361994 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10352216 035 $a(PQKB)10578591 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC484747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL484747 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10371455 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL257178 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000009320 100 $a20180706d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aItaly today $ethe sick man of Europe /$fedited by Andrea Mammone and Giuseppe A. Veltri 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-56160-4 311 $a0-415-56159-0 327 $aBook 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 327 $a7 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 problem 327 $a13 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 330 $aItaly 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 607 $aItaly$xPolitics and government$y1994- 607 $aItaly$xEconomic conditions$y1994- 607 $aItaly$xSocial conditions$y1994- 676 $a945.093 701 $aMammone$b Andrea$01501516 701 $aVeltri$b Giuseppe A$0750555 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792461403321 996 $aItaly today$93825187 997 $aUNINA