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This book provides students with the most comprehensive and
incisive introduction available to the intricacies of the Italian
political system. Written in an accessible and student-friendly
style, this up-to-date textbook features: * an introduction to
Italian political history from 1943 to the present day * an
explanation of the governmental system, the constitutional
framework, the core institutions, the electoral system and the key
parties * analysis of the role of the contemporary pressure groups
and social movements including environmental, labour and
anti-globalization organizations * discussion of important topical
issues such as corruption, organized crime, the role of the media
and freedom of the press * an exploration of Italian foreign policy
towards the EU, the US and the 'War on Terrorism' * innovative use
of photographs, boxed biographies, figures, annotated further
reading and lists of websites to enliven the text. Contemporary
Italian Politics is the perfect introduction for students reading
Italian politics, Italian studies and European studies.
This book provides students with the most comprehensive and
incisive introduction available to the intricacies of the Italian
political system. Written in an accessible and student-friendly
style, this up-to-date textbook features: * an introduction to
Italian political history from 1943 to the present day * an
explanation of the governmental system, the constitutional
framework, the core institutions, the electoral system and the key
parties * analysis of the role of the contemporary pressure groups
and social movements including environmental, labour and
anti-globalization organizations * discussion of important topical
issues such as corruption, organized crime, the role of the media
and freedom of the press * an exploration of Italian foreign policy
towards the EU, the US and the 'War on Terrorism' * innovative use
of photographs, boxed biographies, figures, annotated further
reading and lists of websites to enliven the text. Contemporary
Italian Politics is the perfect introduction for students reading
Italian politics, Italian studies and European studies.
This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions. First,
what do the 2019 European elections suggest about the extent to
which the mainstream parties of the left are attempting to deal
with their decline through an increased, common, emphasis on their
project for a more integrated, 'social Europe' as opposed to an
emphasis on the more 'traditional', domestically-focussed, issues?
Given the heightened profile of Europe in domestic politics; given
the polarisation around Europe; given the way in which (especially
in the countries of the Eurozone) media discussion of the domestic
implications of EU decision-making can influence the climate of
opinion regardless of the actions of domestic party actors
themselves, we would expect the social democrats among them to seek
to reassert control over the conditions of opinion formation
through a renewed emphasis on integration (as well as its benefits
and its potential as a source of identities to rival national,
exclusionary identities) in opposition to their populist and
Eurosceptical adversaries. To what extent do the campaigns waged by
these parties bear out this expectation? Second, how well are the
parties coping with the internal and external, institutional and
political obstacles in the way of pursuit of this agenda?
This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions. First,
what do the 2019 European elections suggest about the extent to
which the mainstream parties of the left are attempting to deal
with their decline through an increased, common, emphasis on their
project for a more integrated, 'social Europe' as opposed to an
emphasis on the more 'traditional', domestically-focussed, issues?
Given the heightened profile of Europe in domestic politics; given
the polarisation around Europe; given the way in which (especially
in the countries of the Eurozone) media discussion of the domestic
implications of EU decision-making can influence the climate of
opinion regardless of the actions of domestic party actors
themselves, we would expect the social democrats among them to seek
to reassert control over the conditions of opinion formation
through a renewed emphasis on integration (as well as its benefits
and its potential as a source of identities to rival national,
exclusionary identities) in opposition to their populist and
Eurosceptical adversaries. To what extent do the campaigns waged by
these parties bear out this expectation? Second, how well are the
parties coping with the internal and external, institutional and
political obstacles in the way of pursuit of this agenda?
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Quo Vadis? (Hardcover)
Carlo Guarnieri, James L. Newell
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R3,794
Discovery Miles 37 940
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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2004 was a year that threw into sharp relief the principal features
of the present political conjuncture, that is, one in which the
Italian political transition shows few signs of coming to a
conclusion. 2004 was, therefore, a year of limited change, one in
which reforms were announced but not fully achieved and where the
few that were achieved were noteworthy for the compromises that
were necessary in order to make them possible at all. It was, too,
a year in which there emerged a stalemate between the center-right
and center-left coalitions which, pending the regional elections of
2005 and the general election of 2006, took almost equal shares of
the vote at the elections for the European Parliament. This volume
examines these elections, paying special attention to Forza Italia,
the prime minister's party, and the workings of the governing
alliance and gives a well-rounded overview over the year's most
important developments regarding the government's approach to the
European constitution, the new judicial system, and the pensions
legislation - the only major reform actually completed during 2004.
Recognising that corruption is a serious problem in the globalised
world of the early twenty-first century, the book takes the reader
on a journey - beginning with what corruption is, why its study is
important and how it can be measured. From there it moves on to
explore corruption's causes, its consequences and how it can be
tackled - before discovering how these things are playing out in
the established liberal democracies, in the former communist
regimes and in the newly industrialised and 'developing' world. On
the way it takes a couple of detours - first, to explore
corruption's mechanisms and dynamics and second to survey the
scandals to which it may give rise. The book is therefore offered
as an informative 'travel guide' of potential interest to
journalists and policy makers as well as to students and academics.
-- .
Italian politics has changed course yet again. Thanks to the
outcome of the 2022 general election, a coalition dominated, for
the first time, by a party of the far right has taken office under
Giorgia Meloni, the first woman to serve as prime minister in
Italy’s republican history. Italy has always been a kind of
‘political laboratory’ for Western democracies – one in which
new political phenomena have developed with considerable potency.
Consequently, the electoral analyses presented in this book make it
possible for the reader to understand the challenges and related
consequences that established democracies are currently facing,
beyond Italy.
This volume employs a comparative approach to cast light on
representation and representative processes from a communications
perspective. It focuses on online constituency communication,
aiming to provide a perspective from which to empirically study the
changes taking place in the relationship between citizens and their
representatives. The (hyper)mediatisation of politics and society
is here considered a relevant enabling factor, because it creates
the conditions leading to change in the nature of democratic
processes. The chapters discuss Podemos, the Lega, Law and Justice,
and the Five-star Movement as good examples of this phenomenon.
Populist and nationalist forces have emerged as bottom-up and
top-down entities aiming to embody the will of the people, or to
push for democratic processes to be more inclusive. Until now,
however, the intersection between populist and nationalist
discourses and the related question of representation have been
largely ignored. By analysing the transformations that have taken
place in MPs’ communication practices in non-election periods,
the contributors illuminate how social media is affecting MPs’
communication and examine the strains in the relationship between
executives and legislatures that populist and nationalist parties
exploit.
This volume employs a comparative approach to cast light on
representation and representative processes from a communications
perspective. It focuses on online constituency communication,
aiming to provide a perspective from which to empirically study the
changes taking place in the relationship between citizens and their
representatives. The (hyper)mediatisation of politics and society
is here considered a relevant enabling factor, because it creates
the conditions leading to change in the nature of democratic
processes. The chapters discuss Podemos, the Lega, Law and Justice,
and the Five-star Movement as good examples of this phenomenon.
Populist and nationalist forces have emerged as bottom-up and
top-down entities aiming to embody the will of the people, or to
push for democratic processes to be more inclusive. Until now,
however, the intersection between populist and nationalist
discourses and the related question of representation have been
largely ignored. By analysing the transformations that have taken
place in MPs' communication practices in non-election periods, the
contributors illuminate how social media is affecting MPs'
communication and examine the strains in the relationship between
executives and legislatures that populist and nationalist parties
exploit.
This is a book about European integration and mainstream parties of
the left, the main underlying question driving it being: Given that
the communist left was fatally wounded by the collapse of the
Berlin Wall; given that, since then, the terms 'left' and 'right'
have not infrequently been attacked (especially by populists) as
being no longer useful for making sense of politics; given that
social democracy, understood as 'national Keynesianism' no longer
appears to be viable (as reflected in its long-term electoral
decline), what does it mean to be on the left in the early 21st
century and what can be done to revive its fortunes? Its answer is
that being on the left means embracing principles of equality and
international solidarity, and that since the nation state is too
small to respond effectively to climate change and the other most
pressing issues of the present, no viable strategy for left-wing
revival in Europe can dispense with European integration as a
central element, of which European democratisation is a core
component.
There are little doubts that Italy has attempted to play a more
assertive role in the international arena since the end of the Cold
War. During the first forty years of its Republican history,
conditioned by both the polarized international context and an
antagonistic domestic political system, Italy delegated its main
choices in international affairs to external actors, most notably
NATO and the European Union. The transition from a bipolar to a
unipolar/multipolar world order provided Italy with new
opportunities to pursue its political and commercial interests more
autonomously, as well as new responsibilities, to actively
contribute to solving conflicts and addressing new global threats.
At the same time, the collapse of the traditional parties (linked
to the fall of the Berlin wall and the Clean Hands enquiries) and
the changes of the electoral law (from a proportional
representation into a quasi-majoritarian system) generated two
heterogeneous coalitions which have regularly alternated in power,
but do not always share the same views and approaches-with
differences at times of form, and more often of substance. Against
this background, Italy in the Post-Cold War Order: Adaptation,
Bipartisanship, Visibility, edited by Maurizio Carbone, seeks to
explain the evolution of Italy's international action over a
twenty-year span (1989 2009). Three central questions are
addressed. First, how does Italy adapt to transformations of the
international system? Second, how does its ever-changing political
system influence Italy's choices in foreign relations? Third, how
do domestic structures constrain (or enable) Italy's place on the
world stage? To answer these questions, this book consists of two
broad parts. The first part sets the context and discusses issues
'horizontally, ' focusing on foreign policy, security and defense
policy, development cooperation, and multilateral action. The
second part, which takes a 'vertical' approach, discusses Italy's
relations with key countries and regions of the world
This book provides a lively and comprehensive account of the
unprecedented Italian general election of 2018 and of its profound
significance for Italy and beyond. The contributions in this volume
cover the political, economic and international contexts in which
the vote took place, and consider the main election contenders in
the run-up to the election as well as the campaigns. The book
further examines the election outcome, analysing the votes and
discussing the impact of the election on the turnover of
parliamentary personnel as well as examining the outcome from the
viewpoint of government formation.
This innovative text offers a completely fresh approach to Italian
politics by placing it in its historical, institutional, social and
international contexts. Students will get to grips with the
theories and concepts of comparative politics and how they apply
specifically to Italy, while gaining real insight into more
controversial topics such as the Mafia, corruption and the striking
success of Berlusconi. The textbook uses clear and simple language
to critically analyze Italy's institutions, its political culture,
parties and interest groups, public policy, and its place in the
international system. Often regarded as an anomaly, Italy is
frequently described in terms of 'crisis', 'instability' and
'alienation'. Sceptical of these conventional accounts, Newell
argues that, if understood in its own terms, the Italian political
system is just as effective as other established democracies. With
features including text boxes and further reading suggestions, this
is an unbeatable introduction to the politics of Italy.
This innovative text offers a completely fresh approach to Italian
politics by placing it in its historical, institutional, social and
international contexts. Students will get to grips with the
theories and concepts of comparative politics and how they apply
specifically to Italy, while gaining real insight into more
controversial topics such as the Mafia, corruption and the striking
success of Berlusconi. The textbook uses clear and simple language
to critically analyze Italy's institutions, its political culture,
parties and interest groups, public policy, and its place in the
international system. Often regarded as an anomaly, Italy is
frequently described in terms of 'crisis', 'instability' and
'alienation'. Sceptical of these conventional accounts, Newell
argues that, if understood in its own terms, the Italian political
system is just as effective as other established democracies. With
features including text boxes and further reading suggestions, this
is an unbeatable introduction to the politics of Italy.
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