E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 293 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm
Kaiser / Edelmann Crisis as a Permanent Condition?
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8452-5704-4
Verlag: Nomos
Format: PDF
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The Italian Political System between Transition and Reform Resistance
E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 293 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm
Reihe: Transnational Perspectives on Transformations
ISBN: 978-3-8452-5704-4
Verlag: Nomos
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Italy is in need of fundamental institutional reforms in order to stay internationally competitive and to regain the capability of efficient policy-making. This is the unanimous and longstanding tenor of political observers as well as of the political actors themselves ? more relevant than ever following both the dramatic parliamentary elections? results in February 2013 as well as the current ?radical? efforts of Italy?s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to overhaul the established institutional structures.
However, expectations of a fundamental socio-political turn were already dashed in the 1990s. Then, in response to the party system?s collapse and the widespread tangentopoli corruption scandals, it was almost taken for granted that comprehensive and far-reaching reforms would be implemented in order to tackle structural problems that had been revealed by these scandals. However, so far substantial change has not been reached in the Italian political institutional system. In this volume, various aspects of the inherent dynamics of the Italian political system will be dealt with from an interdisciplinary perspective, taking into account the analysis of Italy?s socio-political history as well as the country?s political system and its elites? configuration. The volume provides an in-depth and sound understanding of the various inherent reform obstacles established in the Italian political system. It offers profound insights into the existing options for institutional change, critically discussed by leading international experts of Italian politics.
With contributions by:
Marco Brunazzo, Martin J. Bull, Carlo Carboni, Maurizio Cotta, Christopher Duggan, Jana Edelmann, Ro-bert Kaiser, James L. Newell, G?nther Pallaver, Gianfranco Pasquino, Silvana Patriarca, Alberto Vannucci, Luca Verzichelli, Francesco Zucchini
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Weitere Infos & Material
1;Cover;1
2; Introduction: Italy between transition and reform resistance;10
3; National identity and political culture;20
3.1; The problem of the nation-state in Italy: some long-term historical reflections;22
3.2; From important parties to pivotal parties. The role of regional parties in Italy’s Second Republic;36
3.3; A Crisis of Italian Identity? The Northern League and Italy’s Renationalization Since the 1990s;62
4; Political system and institutions;80
4.1; A ‘Perfect Storm’: Institutional Reform in Italy after the 2013 National Elections;82
4.2; The Second Republic That Never Was;100
4.3; The Italian Party System after the Crisis: Transformations and Uncertainties;114
4.4; The Republic of vetoes: Legislative change and stability in the Italian political system;134
5; Political actors and elite structures;156
5.1; Dust of Italian stars;158
5.2; Party professionalism and individualism in the "new" Italian ruling class;184
5.3; Between systemic corruption and anticorruption: political scandals and electoral accountability in Italy;204
6; Personalized politics and political leadership;238
6.1; The MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S), the PD and the current (and changing) state of the party system;240
6.2; Berlusconia has never existed. On the powerlessness of Silvio Berlusconi as Italy’s Prime Minister;272
