The New Italian Republic

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
List of abbreviations......Page 10
Introduction: the new Italian Republic......Page 12
Explaining Italy's crisis......Page 30
Electoral reform and political change in Italy, 1991  1994......Page 51
Political Catholicism and the strange death of the Christian Democrats......Page 70
Italian Communism in the First Republic......Page 83
The rise and fall of Craxi's Socialist Party......Page 96
The fate of the secular Centre: the Liberals, Republicans and Social Democrats......Page 110
The Northern League: from regional party to party of government......Page 124
Forza Italia: the new politics and old values of a changing Italy......Page 141
Towards a modern Right: Alleanza Nazionale and the 'Italian Revolution'......Page 158
The great failure? The Democratic Party of the Left in Italy's transition......Page 170
The 'Left Opposition' and the crisis: Rifondazione Comunista and La Rete......Page 184
A legal revolution? The judges and Tangentopoli......Page 202
The mass media and the political crisis......Page 217
The system of corrupt exchange in local government......Page 232
The resistible rise of the new Neapolitan Camorra......Page 245
The changing Mezzogiorno: between representations and reality......Page 258
The economic elites and the political system......Page 274
Excesses and limits of the public sector in the Italian economy: the ongoing reform......Page 284
Industrial relations and the labour movement......Page 305
Italian political reform in comparative perspective......Page 322
Index......Page 337