Chapter 1 Changes in Italian Electoral Behaviour, Arturo Parisi, Gianfranco Pasquino; Chapter 2 Muddling Through, Michele Salvati; Chapter 3 Labour Unions, Industrial Action and Politics, Marino Regini; Chapter 4 Organised Business and Italian Politics, Alberto Martinelli; Chapter 5 Italian Christian Democracy, Gianfranco Pasquino; Chapter 6 Crisis and Consent, Change and Compromise, Peter Lange; Chapter 7 The Italian Socialist Part y under Craxi, David Hine; Chapter 8 The Available State, Giuseppe Di Palma; Chapter 9 Italy, Sidney Tarrow;