Berlusconism and Italy
Subtitle: a historical interpretation
By: Giovanni Orsina
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781137438669
Subjects: Politics and government; Influence; Political and social views; Voting; Political culture
Work titles: Berlusconismo nella storia d'Italia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Italian question; title: Modernity and the Mediterranean; title: Popper and Plato; title: Italy's varied backwardness; title: The paradoxes of Jacobinism; title: The unobtainable truth; title: Illiberal Italy; title: 2. The antifascist Republic and its parties; title: The parties of the Republic; title: Right wing anti-partyism; title: The impact of the 1960s; title: Hold your nose and vote DC; title: The 1980s and the crisis of the Republic; title: The arch-party; title: Towards Berlusconism; title: 3. Berlusconism; title: The politics of Berlusconism; title: The state as a friend; title: Hypo-politics; title: A political elite of non-professional politicians; title: Berlusconism, the plural right and bipolarism; title: Berlusconi's three clocks; title: Berlusconism and bipolarism; title: Defining berlusconism; title: 4. The Berlusconi voter; title: Who voted for Berlusconi?; title: Why did people vote for Berlusconi?; title: The politics of skepticism; title: 5. The rise and fall of Berlusconism; title: 1994 : revolutionary Berlusconism; title: 1996-2001 : the consolidation of Berlusconism; title: 2001-2006 : Berlusconism of government; title: 2005-2006 : the end of Berlusconism?; title: 2006-2011 : Berlusconi without Berlusconism; title: Epilogue: The fly in the bottle; title: A note on the most relevant center-right and right wing parties and coalitions, 1994-2013.