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.
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