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Informationen zum Autor Erik Jones is Professor of European Studies and Director of European and Eurasian Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. Gianfranco Pasquino is the James Anderson Senior Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University, and was Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna until 2012. He was a member of the Italian Senate (1983-1992: 1994-1996); has served as a parliamentary observer for the plebiscite (1988) and presidential elections (1989) in Chile; was awarded the laurea honoris causa from the Catholic University of Cordoba, University of Buenos Aires and University de La Plata; and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Enciclopedia Italiana, President of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica and a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies. Under the hegemonic influence of Christian Democracy in the early post-World War II decades, Italy went through a period of rapid growth and political transformation. In part this resulted in tumult and a crisis of governability; however, it also gave rise to innovation in the form of Eurocommunism and new forms of political accommodation. The great strength of Italy lay in its constitution; its great weakness lay in certain legacies of the past. Organized crime - popularly but not exclusively associated with the mafia - is one example. A self-contained and well entrenched 'caste' of political and economic elites is another. These weaknesses became apparent in the breakdown of political order in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This ushered in a combination of populist political mobilization and experimentation with electoral systems design, and the result has been more evolutionary than transformative. Italian politics today is different from what it was during the immediate post-World War II period, but it still shows many of the influences of the past. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface I. Core Concepts 1: James L. Newell: La Classe Dirigente 2: Anthony L. Cardoza: The Risorgimento 3: Marco Valbruzzi: Trasformismo 4: Maurizio Cotta: Partitocracy: Parties and Their Critics in Italian Political Life 5: John A. Davis: A Tale of Two Italies? The 'Southern Question' Past and Present II. Political Institutions 6: Giuliano Amato: The Constitution 7: Gianfranco Pasquino: The Presidents of the Republic 8: Mauro Calise: Government and Prime Minister 9: Salvatore Vassallo: The Parliament 10: Carlo Guarnieri: The Courts 11: Marta Regalia: Electoral Systems 12: Carol Mershon: Party Systems in Post-World War II Italy 13: Simona Piattoni: Bureaucracy III. Political Traditions 14: Gianfranco Baldini: Christian Democracy: The Italian Party 15: Paolo Bellucci: Communists 16: Nicolò Conti: Socialists, Republicans, and Radicals 17: Piero Ignazi: Fascists and Post-fascists 18: Gianluca Passarelli: Populism and the Lega Nord 19: Giovanni Orsina: Liberalism and Liberals IV. Political Periods 20: Paolo Pombeni: Christian Democracy in Power, 1946-1963 21: Ilaria Favretto: The 'Opening to the Left' 22: Stephen Hellman: The Compromesso Storico 23: Martin J. Bull: The Pentapartito 24: Martin Rhodes: Tangentopoli - More than Twenty Years on 25: Jonathan Hopkin: Bipolarity (and After) V. Major Figures 26: Aldo Agosti: Alcide De Gasperi and Palmiro Togliati 27: Valerio Castronovo: Gianni Agnelli and Enrico Mattei 28: Emanuele Bernardi: Aldo Moro and Enrico Berlinguer 29: Antonio Varsori: Bettino Craxi and Giulio Andreotti 30: Mark Donovan and Mark Gilbert: Sil...
