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Italian political science and Italian politics: the (curious) elephant in the room
Contemporary Italian Politics, 2015Using as a starting point the 40th anniversary of Italian political science in 2013 and the volume published to mark this occasion, this article evaluates the state of the discipline today. The discipline’s late birth, small size and competition from other disciplines help to explain its incomplete institutionalisation.
Martin Bull
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The Papacy and Italian Politics
2023This chapter covers the correlation between the papacy and Italian politics. It explains the factors needed to determine the choice of a candidate for the highest role in the Roman Church. From the eleventh century, the Roman papacy played an increasingly pervasive role in the Italian peninsula.
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani +1 more
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Italian Studies, Italian Theory and the politics of trans-lation
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2016Italian Theory has emerged as the result of the search for new conceptual frameworks in the face of a series of international political events concerning not only the proliferation of states of exception but also of new forms of politicization of life related to biomedical science and the biosecurization of spaces.
Claudio Minca
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Italian Politics and Government
2023As established in the 1948 Constitution, Italy is a parliamentary democracy in which in order to take office governments must be supported by a majority of voting members of parliament (MPs), separately both in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, through a formal investiture vote.
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Understanding Italian Politics [PDF]
Development, 2013 In this article the author explores the possibility for the renewal of Italy’s political and democratic institutions under the new government of Matteo Renzi. He takes a historical approach, analysing the trajectory and performance of Italy’s political establishment since the Second World War and in particular the impact of Silvio Berlusconi’s ...
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Modern Italy, 2008
Recent developments, especially the outcome of the 2008 election, appear to point to the definitive sidelining of centrism in Italian politics. In reality, it remains significant – not least because of the opportunities for influence all bipolar systems give to parties not of the left or right, and because of the possible consequences of reassessments ...
Mark Donovan, James L. Newell
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Recent developments, especially the outcome of the 2008 election, appear to point to the definitive sidelining of centrism in Italian politics. In reality, it remains significant – not least because of the opportunities for influence all bipolar systems give to parties not of the left or right, and because of the possible consequences of reassessments ...
Mark Donovan, James L. Newell
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The Context of Italian Politics
1998Among the larger industrial states of Western Europe, Italy possesses certain unique characteristics. It has become one of the world’s ten leading industrial powers, yet the southern half of Italy is relatively underdeveloped and lags far behind the rest of the country—to say nothing of Western Europe—in per capita income.
M. Donald Hancock +4 more
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Government and Opposition, 1993
IN MODERN ITALIAN, ‘POLITICAL CLASS’ IS A CONCEPT quite distinct from that of a ruling class. The notion of political class applies to a million people who are in full-time politics. The cream of these professional politicians is part of the ruling class: a term which applies to the people who effectively run the country working in business, finance ...
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IN MODERN ITALIAN, ‘POLITICAL CLASS’ IS A CONCEPT quite distinct from that of a ruling class. The notion of political class applies to a million people who are in full-time politics. The cream of these professional politicians is part of the ruling class: a term which applies to the people who effectively run the country working in business, finance ...
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Religion And Politics: The Italian Case
2011Any discussion on the relationship between religion and politics in Italy must still today include an analysis of the dynamics existing between the world of politics and the catholic religion due to the preeminent role it has long held in the country.
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Urbanization and Italian Politics
The Journal of Politics, 1967E FFORTS TO ACCOUNT for the nature and direction of political change in the developing nations of Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East have produced the theory of political modernization. In these nations, observers have found the gradual emergence of modern political systems, characterized by (1) functionally specialized political ...
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