Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy
Subtitle: A Tale of Two Cities (Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521236379
Subjects: Political economy; Politics/International Relations; General; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Practical Politics; Political Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Politics and government; Italy, Southern; Anthropology - Cultural; Italy, Southern--Politics and government--1945- --Case studies; Political Science / General; 1945-; Case studies; Economic conditions; Patronage, Political
First sentence: Politics and economics in cities like Palermo and Naples are indissolubly linked to the more general problem of the Italian South, the questione meridionale, which has plagued Italian politics since unification in 1860.