Description: Contents: Volume I: Part 1 The Political System: Constitutional Development: 30 years of the Italian Republic: governability and constitutional reform, David Hine: Political Parties and Interest Groups: The Italian patriarchy: beyond President and Parliament, Mauro Calise; From 2 into 1: the faces of the Italian Christian Democratic Party, Percy Allum; Whatever happened to Italian Communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest Communist Party in the West, Martin J. Bull; Interest representation, party systems and the State. Italy in comparative perspective, Miriam Golden; Italian trade unionism in the 1990s: the persistence of corporatism, Carlo Levy; Party System: 20 years of polarized pluralism, James Hanning; 2 opposing approaches to the Italian party system, Gerbert van Loenen. Parliament and Cabinet: The rise and fall of the ''centrality'' of the Italian parliament: transformations of the executive-legislative sub-system after the Second World War, Maurizio Cotta; The permanent committees of the Italian chambers of deputies: parliament at work?, Vincent della Sala; The Italian prime minister, David Hine and Renato Finocchi; Majority summits: decision-making inside the cabinet and out: 1970-90, Annarita Criscitiello; Public Administration: Hypotheses on the Italian administrative system, Sabino Cassese; Sub-National Government: Regionalism in Italy, Anna Bull; Explaining institutional success: the case of Italian regional government, Robert Putnam, Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y. Nanetti and Franco Povoncello; The Judiciary: The judiciary and politics, Stefano Rodot; The judicial role in Italy: independence, impartiality and legitimacy, Mary L. Volcansek. Part 2 Policy Studies and Issues: 30 years of Southern policy in Italy, Percy A. Allum; Recent immigration politics in Italy: a short story, John W.P. Veugelers; The evolution of Italian environmental policy, Angela Liberatore and Rudolf Lewanski. Part 3 The Crisis of the 1990s: Political parties and corruption. Reflections on the Italian case, Donatella della Porta; Church and State in Italian history, origins of the present crisis, Gino Bedani; The rise of regional leagues in Italian politics, Dwayne Woods; Tangentopoli and the emergence of a new political order in Italy, Sarah Waters; The politics of electoral reform in Italy, Mark Donovan; Will Italy remain a nation?, Gian Enrico Rusconi; Index.Contents: Volume II: Part 1 Interpretations and Debates: Remapping Italy''s path to the 20th century, John A. Davies; Italy and modernization: a montage, Tim Mason; Political debate, social history and the Italian Borghesia: changing perspectives in historical research, Raffaele Romanelli; Consolidation and party government in Southern Europe, Leonardo Morlino; Path dependency and civic culture: some lessons from Italy about interpreting social experiments, Filippo Sabetti. Part 2 Social and Politico-Cultural Developments: 1968-79: feminism and the Italian party system. Women''s politics in a decade of turmoil, Yasmine Ergas; Enforcers, entrepreneurs and survivors: how the mafia has adapted to change, Raimondo Catanzaro; Political and market forces in Italian broadcasting, Donald Sassoon; Politics and the mass media in Italy, Luca Ricolfi; Italian terrorism and society, Marco Rimanelli. Part 3 Obstacles and Achievements: Consociational politics and Italian democracy, Adriano Pappalardo; Towards a history of transformation (1883-1983), Sandro Fontana; Party system change in Italy, Luciano Bardi; Tangentopoli or the democratization of corruption: considerations on the end of Italy''s First Republic, Donald Sassoon; The partitocracy of health. Towards a new welfare politics in Italy?, Maurizio Ferrera; The reform of finance and administration in Italy: contrasting achievements, Giancinto della Cannanea; Hollowing and hardening the State: European integration and the Italian State, Vincent della Sala; Italian women''s struggle against violence, Judith Adler Hellman; Mafia: the Sicil

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