Italian politics : a review

Author(s)

• Leonardi, Robert
• Nanetti, Raffaella Y.
• Corbetta, Piergiorgio
• Catanzaro, Raimondo
• Conference Group on Italian Politics
• Istituto Carlo Cattaneo
• Sabetti, Filippo
• Anderlini, Fausto
• Hellman, Stephen
• Pasquino, Gianfranco

Bibliographic Information

Italian politics : a review

edited by Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y. Nanetti & Piergiorgio Corbetta

Frances Pinter, 1986-

• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4
• v. 5
• v. 6
• v. 7
• v. 8

Note

子書誌あり (v. 9 (1995)〜 , 固有の標題あり)

Publisher changed: Boulder, Colo. ; Oxford : Westview Press, (v. 9〜)

v. 1: "A publication for the Conference Group on Italian Politics and the Carlo Cattaneo Institute."

v. 2: "A publication of the Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society and the Carlo Cattaneo Institute."

v. 3: "A publication of the European University Institute and the Carlo Cattaneo Institute"

v. 4, 5, 8, 12, 17: "A publication of the Istituto Cattaneo"

Editors of v. 3: Robert Leonardi and Piergiorgio Corbetta -- v. 4: Raffaella Y. Nanetti and Raimondo Catanzaro -- v. 5: Filippo Sabetti and Raimaondo Catanzaro -- v. 6: Robert Leonardi and Fausto Anderlini -- v. 7-8: Stephen Hellman and Gianfranco Pasquino

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 5 ISBN 9780861871933

Description

The fifth volume on contemporary Italian politics which details events and changes, places them in both an historical and theoretical context and offers analysis by contributing authors on current affairs in this often volatile country.

Table of Contents

• The 1989 events in perspective - the end of an era or the past as the future?, Filippo Sabetti and Raimondo Catanzaro
• the 18th DC congress - from De Mita to Forlani and the victory of "Neodoroteism", Mario Caciagli
• the unremarkable death of the Italian communist party, Martin J.Bull
• the De Mita government crisis and the powers of the president of the republic - which form of government?, Gianfranco Pasquino
• combatting drug use in the AIDS decade - the 1989 campaign in context, David Moss
• the new code of criminal procedure, Gherardo Colombo
• pollution, policies and politics - the Italian environment, David Alexander
• concentration trends in the media, Pier Paolo Giglioli and Gianpietro Mazzoleni
• Gorbachev's state visit to Italy and the Vatican, Joan Barth Urban
• the third elections to the European parliament - a vote for Italy or a vote for Europe?, Luciano Bardi.

Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780861877225

Description

This third volume of "Italian Politics" documents in detail current events and changes, places them in historical and theoretical context, and offers expert analysis by the contributing authors. It is intended that the work will provide the material necessary to identify some of the structural elements of the Italian political system, and will aid in developing an objective model to explain the enigma of Italian politics.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, Robert Leonardi and Piergiorgio Corbetta
• the role of the president - who governs?, Enzo Balboni
• the judiciary and the Italian State, Guiseppe DiGederico
• the COBAS - the fragmentation of trade union representation and conflict, Lorenzo Bordogna
• the new immigrants, Raimondo Cagiano de Azevedo
• the Venice summit, John Harper
• the resurrection of the DC, Genevieve Bibes and Jean Besson
• Bettino Craxi and the lay-Socialist area - third force or three forces?, Martin Rhodes
• the 1987 elections and the PCI, Donald Sassoon
• the Italian Navy in the Persian Gulf, Michael Harrison
• the 1987 Referenda, PierVincenzo Uleri
• the "Movimento Popolare", Luigi Accattoli.

Volume

v. 4 ISBN 9780861878529

Description

This fourth volume of "Italian Politics" documents in detail current events and changes, places them in an historical and theoretical context, and offers expert analysis by the contributing authors. It is intended that the work will provide the material necessary to identify some of the structural elements of the Italian political system, and will aid in developing an objective model to explain the enigma of Italian politics.

Table of Contents

• The 1988 events in perspective - the apex of the conservative trend, Raffaella Y. Nanetti and Raimondo Catanzaro
• the first institutional reform - new discipline in government activity, Pietro Barrera
• public finance and public administration - characteristics amd limitations of the finance , Fillipo Cavazzuti
• the political limits of European integration, Patrizio Bianchi
• crisis and reconstructuring in the steel industry, Angelo Pichierri
• the Bagnoli steel complex - too little too late or too much too soon?, Anthony C. Masi
• Pininfarina, president of the confederation of industry, and the problems of the business interest associations, Luca Lanzalaco
• "The Italian social movement - from Almirante to Fini", Giovanni Tassani
• "the PCI and Occhetto's new course - the Italian Road to reform", G. Grant Amyot
• rape reform in Italy - the endless story, Tamar Pitch
• the Mafia and the antimafia - moments in the struggle for justice and self-governance in Sicily, Sabetti Filippo
• the decision to provide a base for US F-16s and Italy's role in NATO, Eugene D. Price, Jr.

Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780861879557

Description

This second volume of "Italian politics" concentrates on the events of 1986, a year that proved to be of great political significance and which saw the fruition of major social and economic trends in Italy. The work documents in detail the events and changes, places them in historical and theoretical context, and offers expert analysis by the contributing authors. It is intended that the work will provide the material necessary to identify some of the structural elements of the Italian political system, and thus to develop an objective model to explain the enigma of Italian politics.

Table of Contents

• Chronology of Italian political events 1986. Government by decree - the Craxi government and the use of decree legislation in the Italian parliament
• Catholic action and the conflicts internal to the Catholic Church
• PCI Congress - generational change in the leadership
• the DC Congress - the end of factions?
• the nuclear power issue - a new political cleavage within Italian society
• financial markets in 1986 - the paradox of liberalization
• privatization of industry - the Alfa Romeo case
• the "Condono Edilizio" debate
• the Lampedusa incident and Italian defence policy
• military service and military reform
• parties and mass communication - the RAI controversy.

Volume

v. 6 ISBN 9781855670471

Description

The sixth volume on contemporary Italian politics, this details events and changes, places them in both an historical and theoretical context and offers analysis by contributing authors. Topics of this review of 1990 include the Italian Communist Party and the effects of the World Cup.

Table of Contents

• Chronology of Italian political events, 1990
• electoral reform referendums, Gianfranco Pasquino
• the new local government law, Luciano Vandelli
• the financing of Church activities in Italy, Carlo Cardia
• Italy in Europe - the Italian presidency of the European Community, David Hine
• the XIX congress of the PCI - the role of symbolism in the communist crisis, David I. Kertzer
• the Italian communist party - towards dissolution and the unknown, Frank Belloni
• regional "leagues" in Italy, David Woods
• machine politics and mass mobilization in Palermo - epitaph for a failed revolt, Alfio Mastropaolo
• the 1990 student protest, Paolo Segatti
• Italy and the World Cup, Pierre Lanfranchi
• documentary appendix, Sara Romano.

Volume

v. 7 ISBN 9781855671140

Description

In most of the world, 1991 will probably be remembered as the year of the Gulf War or the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Italy, it is more likely to be remembered as the year of the agonizing transformation of the Italian Communist Party into the Democratic Party of the Left, as well as the difficult renewal of the CGIL, Italy's largest trade union. It will also be recalled as the year in which Italian citizens, tired of waiting for the parties to deliver long-promised reforms, used a referendum to express an overwhelming vote for change that began to alter the electroral system. Or 1991 could even be remembered as the year of the peaceful but turbulent invasion of the Albanians. These topics and others are analyzed by prominent Italian and foreign researchers in this, the seventh volume of "Italian Politics". There is both a chronology of events and a documentary appendix which make this a useful reference for students and researchers alike.

Table of Contents

• A chronology of the events of 1991. The referendum of June 9, Patrick McCarthy
• "a secret structure codenamed Gladio", Franco Ferraresi
• President of the Republic, judges, and Superior Council of the Judiciary - chronicle of a bitter constitutional battle, Enzo Balboni
• the difficult birth of the Democratic Party of the Left, Stephen Hellman
• the crisis of the CGIL - open division in the 12th congress, Carol Mershon. the difficult reconstruction in Irpinia, Ada Becchi
• whose law? whose order? of crime and punishment in modern times, Filippo Sabetti
• privatization - false starts and frustrated takeoffs, Filippo Vavazzuti. Catholic "pacifism" and the Gulf War - pluralism, cohesion and politics, Mark Donovan
• the papal encyclical "Centesimus Annus", John Zucchi
• the immigration question in Italy, Dwayne Woods
• Documentary appendix, Sara Romano.

Volume

v. 8 ISBN 9781855671591

Description

Italy has always been notorious for the rate at which its governments rise and fall, but underlying the instability of its cabinets was a remarkable stability in the broader party system. In the 1992 general elections, this stability dissolved amidst other troubling signs that the political system had reached a decisive turning point. The Lombard League, with a mixture of anti-southern and anti-government rhetoric, had become a principal political force in the North, shattering old equilibria. The League's fortunes were helped by the most extensive corruption scandal of the postwar period, which deeply compromised the already tarnished images of the governing parties. The Christian Democrats underwent a convulsive change of leadership and the seemingly unshakable grip of Bettino Craxi over the Socialist Party, which he had totally dominated since 1976, was seriously challenged. The country continued to be plagued by reminders of how little control the state exercises in certain areas. On two separate occasions the men named as the country's leading anti-mafia judges were murdered. A decade-old mystery about the apparent shooting down of a civilian airliner revealed incompetence and cover-ups in the highest reaches of power. And the country continued to lumber towards its rendezvous with the EC amidst a chronic debt and currency problem. All of the above, and other topics as well, are covered in the eighth volume of this series on contemporary Italian politics, which is produced in collaboration with the Carlo Cattaneo Institute. The contributors are leading experts in their respective fields from North America and Europe.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, Stephen Hellman and Gianfranco Pasquino
• the general elections of 5-6 April 1992, Jean Besson and Genevieve Bibes
• the Lega Nord - the rise of a new Italian catch-all party, Robert Leonardi and Monique Kovacs
• christian democracy - extreme therapy for a critical illness?, Marco Follini
• the "long wave" subsides - the PSI and the demise of craxismo, Martin Rhodes
• the Cossiga legacy and Scalfaro's election - in the shadow of presidentialism?, Vincent della Sala
• the new leadership of confindustria - from Alliance with the DC to a multiparty orientation, Liborio Mattina
• the mafia and the murders of Judges Falcone and Boresellino, Raimondo Catanzaro
• Milan - capital of corruption, Donatella della Porta
• Ustica - the unending investigation, Gianluca Salvatori
• Italian foreign policy in a changing Europe, John W. Holmes
• Italy in Europe in the post-Maastricht era, Philip Daniels.

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• NCID: BA00758141
• ISBN:
  • 0861876911
  • 0861879554
  • 0861877225
  • 0861878523
  • 0861871936
  • 185567047X
  • 185567114X
  • 185567159X
• LCCN: 86023742
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JN5451
  • DC19 : 945.092/8
  • NDC7 : 312.37
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Italy -- Politics and government -- 1976-