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 have foundered on bickering between the parties and their
ego-centric leaders. Both left and right-wing coalitions have been
guilty of impeding the anti-corruption revolution. Little has been
done to improve the quality of public expenditure: infrastructure
and education systems remain shambolic, and decades of periodic
devaluation and deficit spending have left the economy structurally
weakened. Italy's politicians are not just masters of trasformismo
(an ability to reinvent and present themselves anew to voters), but
of stratificazione, or "layering", the introduction of new policies
and institutions without replacing those that preceded them. The
result is a damaging mix of obsolete and contradictory legislation,
the product of bargaining over reform by chronically weak
governments in a veto-ridden polity. The outcome - immobilismo - is
a system in which all parties, and democratic government itself,
are steadily losing legitimacy. This book was published as a
special issue of West European Politics.
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