Italy today : the sick man of Europe / / edited by Andrea Mammone and Giuseppe A. Veltri

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 945.093
• Soggetto geografico: Italy Politics and government 1994-2018; Italy Economic conditions 1994-; Italy Social conditions 1994-
• Altri autori: MammoneAndrea VeltriGiuseppe A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Italy today
• ISBN: 1-135-16493-2; 1-135-16494-0; 1-282-57178-8; 9786612571787; 0-203-85963-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975057903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II