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
