Italy - A Contested Polity

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ISBN: 9780415472647 | 0415472644
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/10/2008

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This book provides the first detailed analysis of its kind of political and economic reform in Italy since the early 1990s. The authors explore the root causes of bad governance in Italy, and explain why attempts to renovate the system have so far failed.

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Notes on Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction-Italy: A Contested Polity	p. 1
A Long Quest in Vain: Institutional Reforms in Italy	p. 14
Government under Berlusconi: The Functioning of the Core Institutions in Italy	p. 36
Electoral Change and its Impact on the Party System in Italy	p. 55
The Italian Centre-Right and Centre-Left: Between Parties and 'the Party'	p. 77
Italy's Dysfunctional Political Economy	p. 107
Eppure, non si muove: Legal Change, Institutional Stability and Italian Corporate Governance	p. 128
Industrial Relations and the Welfare State in Italy: Assessing the Potential of Negotiated Change	p. 147
Corruption and Anti-Corruption: The Political Defeat of 'Clean Hands' in Italy	p. 174
Mafia and Organised Crime in Italy: The Unacknowledged Successes of Law Enforcement	p. 198
Conflicts of Interest and Media Pluralism in Italian Broadcasting	p. 225
The Domestic Foundations of Italy's Foreign and Development Policies	p. 247
Italian Politics and the European Union: A Tale of Two Research Designs	p. 268
Index	p. 289
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