The New Italian Republic charts the breakdown of the old party system and examines the changed political climate that has allowed Berlusconi to rise as Italy's new master and subsequently precipitated his rapid fall from power.
Introduction: The New Italian Republic I Context
1. Explaining Italy's
Crisis
2. Electoral Reform and Political Change in Italy 1991-94 II The Old
Party System
1. Political Catholicism and the Strange Death of the Christian
Democrats
2. Italian Communism in the First Republic
3. The Rise and fall
of Craxi's Socialist Party
4. The Fate of the Secular Centre: The Liberals,
Republicans and the Social Democrats III The New Parties
7. The Northern
League from Regional Party to Party of Government
8. Forza Italia: The New
Politics and Old Values of a Changing Italy
9. towards a Modern Right:
Alleanza Nazionale and the Italian Revolution
10. The Great Failure? The PDs
in Italy's Transition
11. The Left Oppossition and the crisis: Rifondazione
Comunista and La Rete IV Politics and Society
12. A Legal Revolution? The
Judges and the Tagentopoli
13. The Mass media and the Political Crisis
14.
The System of Corrupt Exchange in Local Government
15. The Resistable Rise
of the New Neopolitan Camorra
16. The Changing Mezzogiorno: Between
Representations and Reality V Economic Aspects of the Crisis
17. The
Economic Elites and the Political System
18. Excesses anf Limits of the
Public Sector in the Italian Economy
19. Industrial Relations and the Labour
Movement VI Conclusion 20 Italian Political Reform in Comparative
Perspective
Stephen Gundle, Simon Parker
