Italy - A Contested Polity

ISBN-13: 9781138992733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 310 str.

Martin Bull;Martin Rhodes;¬Abar

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.