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This important book explores the cultural conditions that favour
political accountability. It examines the channels through which
accountability can be secured and the role that accountability
plays in ensuring good governance. In addition to problematizing
the notion of accountability, the book suggests that it is the
product of three different-albeit, related-processes: taking
account of voters' preferences, keeping account of voters'
preferences, and giving account of one's performance in office. It
further explores the relationship between accountability and
political culture by analyzing the relationship between
accountability and religion, religious denomination, familism,
civicness, secularism and postmaterialism, revealing that the level
of accountability is influenced by the diffusion of post-material
values and by the level of civicness in a given country. This book
will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in
governance, the political economy of institutions and development,
democracy, and more broadly to political science, international
relations, political theory, comparative politics, sociology, and
cultural studies. Chapter 1 of this book is available for free in
PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at
www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution- Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
The end of Italy's Communist Party and the decline of the Christian
Democrats reflect profound changes taking place within Italy and in
Europe as a whole. In this volume American and Italian scholars
challenge the prevailing wisdom that Italy's politics will never
change.
The decade commencing with the great crash of 2008 was a watershed
period for Italian politics, involving fundamental and dramatic
changes, many of which had not been anticipated and which are
charted in this book. This comprehensive volume covers the impact
of the Eurozone crisis on the Italian economy and its relationship
with the European Union, the dramatic changes in the political
parties (and particularly the rise of a new political force, the
Five Star Movement, which became the largest political party in
2013), the changing role of the Trade Unions in the lives of
Italian citizens, the Italian migration crisis, electoral reforms
and their impact on the Italian party system (where trends towards
bipolarisation appear to be exhausted), the rise of new forms of
social protest, changes to political culture and social capital
and, finally, amidst the crisis, reforms to the welfare state.
Overall, the authors reveal a country, which many had assumed was
in quiet transition towards a more stable democracy, that suffers
an immense shock from the Eurozone crisis and bringing to the fore
deep-rooted structural problems which have changed the dynamics of
its politics, as confirmed in the outcome to the 2018 National
Elections. This book was originally published as a special issue of
South European Society and Politics.
The end of Italy's Communist Party and the decline of the Christian
Democrats reflect profound changes taking place within Italy and in
Europe as a whole. In this volume American and Italian scholars
challenge the prevailing wisdom that Italy's politics will never
change.
The decade commencing with the great crash of 2008 was a watershed
period for Italian politics, involving fundamental and dramatic
changes, many of which had not been anticipated and which are
charted in this book. This comprehensive volume covers the impact
of the Eurozone crisis on the Italian economy and its relationship
with the European Union, the dramatic changes in the political
parties (and particularly the rise of a new political force, the
Five Star Movement, which became the largest political party in
2013), the changing role of the Trade Unions in the lives of
Italian citizens, the Italian migration crisis, electoral reforms
and their impact on the Italian party system (where trends towards
bipolarisation appear to be exhausted), the rise of new forms of
social protest, changes to political culture and social capital
and, finally, amidst the crisis, reforms to the welfare state.
Overall, the authors reveal a country, which many had assumed was
in quiet transition towards a more stable democracy, that suffers
an immense shock from the Eurozone crisis and bringing to the fore
deep-rooted structural problems which have changed the dynamics of
its politics, as confirmed in the outcome to the 2018 National
Elections. This book was originally published as a special issue of
South European Society and Politics.
This textbook, from one of Italy's most eminent scholars, provides
broad coverage and critique of Italian politics and society.
Providing the readers with the knowledge necessary to understand
the working of the Italian political system, it also offers answers
to some of the most important challenges facing the country - and
other contemporary democracies - today, such as populism,
anti-politics and corruption. Critical but underpinned by thorough
data and analysis, it presents alternative views alongside the
author's interpretation. Crucially, the book uses a comparative
framework to explain Italy's transformation and evaluate its
performance. Comparing the rules, institutions, parties and actors
at work in the most important European political systems - France,
Germany, Great Britain - with those in Italy, the Italian context
is better understood and assessed in contrast. This text will be
essential reading for students and scholars of Italian politics and
European politics, and more broadly for comparative politics and
democracy.
This textbook, from one of Italy's most eminent scholars, provides
broad coverage and critique of Italian politics and society.
Providing the readers with the knowledge necessary to understand
the working of the Italian political system, it also offers answers
to some of the most important challenges facing the country - and
other contemporary democracies - today, such as populism,
anti-politics and corruption. Critical but underpinned by thorough
data and analysis, it presents alternative views alongside the
author's interpretation. Crucially, the book uses a comparative
framework to explain Italy's transformation and evaluate its
performance. Comparing the rules, institutions, parties and actors
at work in the most important European political systems - France,
Germany, Great Britain - with those in Italy, the Italian context
is better understood and assessed in contrast. This text will be
essential reading for students and scholars of Italian politics and
European politics, and more broadly for comparative politics and
democracy.
In 1999, Italy experienced another year of political uncertainty.
The centre-left coalition government was weakened by infighting
throughout the year and paid a high electoral price for its failure
to present a common front to the electorate. In June, Silvio
Berlusconi's Liberty Pole coalition won substantial victories in
local elections including a symbolic triumph in Bologna, a
stronghold of the Italian left. In December, bickering inside his
parliamentary majority forced Massimo D'Alema, the prime minister,
to reshuffle his cabinet. This was the first government crisis to
be handled by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, who became the tenth President
of the Republic in May 1999. In the autumn, Giulio Andreotti, a
seven-times prime minister, was acquitted of having colluded with
the Sicilian Mafia, and with having ordered the murder.
This book continues the editors' work (started in the volume
"Masters of Political Science") of highlighting and re-evaluating
the contributions of the most important political scientists who
have gone before. Its basis is the belief that the future
development and sophistication of the discipline will benefit from
a critical understanding of the works of early political "giants"
whose contributions are presented and analysed: Gabriel A. Almond,
Raymond Aron, Philip Converse, Maurice Duverger, Stanley Hoffmann,
Paul Lazarsfeld, Arend Lijphart, Elinor Ostrom, William H. Riker,
Stein Rokkan and Susan Strange. The editors review and consider the
contributions of these maestri to the study of contemporary
democracy, political culture, electoral systems, political
communication, the transformation of capitalism and state formation
in Europe. Maestri of Political Science is aimed not only at a new
generation of political scientists but is a valuable opportunity
for established scholars to see new light through old windows.
For a while now, political science as a discipline has been big
enough (in terms of the number of academics) and analytically
mature enough to justify reflections on and reviews of its
achievements. In fact, there is no lack of general handbooks,
dictionaries and 'state of the art' assessments (as well as
'reflective' journals such as the ECPR's own European Political
Science), which are useful in helping us to understand and evaluate
where we currently are and where we might still need to go. The
focus of these texts, however, is on particular concepts, themes,
research areas, institutions or behaviour. What they rarely do is
indulge in a critical reflection on the political scientists
themselves, especially those who are commonly accepted as having
made the most significant contributions to the growth of their
discipline. This book fills an important gap in the growing
reflective literature on the political science discipline: it
consists of a series of 'objective' profiles of the 'Masters of
Political Science', written by political scientists who have read
and studied their work and who are therefore in a position to
evaluate the nature of their contributions.
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.
The European Union celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2017, but
celebrations were muted by Brexit and the growing sense of a crisis
of identity. However, as this seminal work shows, the history and
ambition of the European Union are considerable. Written by key
stakeholders who, between them, acted as architects, adjudicators
and arbitrators of the project, it presents the definitive history
of the first two generations of the European Union. This book
revisits the birth and consolidation of the great project of a
united Europe and the political, institutional, judicial and
economical frameworks of the European Union: from the process
towards integration, to the advancements and the impasses in
building a political union.
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