1st Edition

Italy - A Contested Polity

Edited By Martin Bull, Martin Rhodes Copyright 2009
310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

Despite the promise of the new "Second Republic" launched in the early 1990s, Italy remains Europe’s least well-governed country. Fifteen years ago, politicians on the take and mafiosi on the make were supposedly pushed aside by a new generation of reformers and crusading magistrates. However, in this new book a team of leading experts on Italy uncovers little real progress. Badly needed reforms... Read more

1. Introduction - Italy: A contested polity  Martin Bull and Martin Rhodes  2. A long quest in vain: Institutional reforms in Italy  Martin Bull and Gianfranco Pasquino  3. Government under Berlusconi: The functioning of the core institutions in Italy  Salvatore Vassallo  4. Electoral change and its impact on the party system in Italy  Luciano Bardi  5. The Italian centre-right and centre-left: Between parties and "the party"  Ilvo Diamanti  6. Italy's dysfunctional political economy  Marcello De Cecco  7. Eppure, non si muove: Legal change, institutional stability and Italian corporate governance  Pepper D. Culpepper  8. Industrial relations and the welfare state in Italy: Assessing the potential of negotiated change  Oscar Molina and Martin Rhodes 9. Corruption and anti-corruption: The political defeat of "Clean Hands" in Italy  Donatella Della Porta and Alberto Vannucci  10. Mafia and organised crime in Italy: The unacknowledged successes of law enforcement  Letizia Paoli  11. Conflicts of interest and media pluralism in Italian broadcasting  Matthew Hibberd  12. The domestic foundations of Italy's foreign and development policies  Maurizio Carbone  13. Italian politics and the European Union: A tale of two research designs  Lucia Quaglia and Claudio M. Radaelli

Biography

Martin Bull is Professor of Politics at the University of Salford, UK.

Martin Rhodes is Professor of Political Economy in the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA.

Comparative European Politics; Comparative Political Studies; South European Politics and Society; Modern Italy; Italian Politics; Italian Politics and Society; European Political Science; Political Studies