Italian Politics

By: Carlo Guarnieri (Editor), James L. Newell (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 2005

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2004 was a year that threw into sharp relief the principal features of the present political conjuncture, that is, one in which the Italian political transition shows few signs of coming to a conclusion. 2004 was, therefore, a year of limited change, one in which reforms were announced but not fully achieved and where the few that were achieved were noteworthy for the compromises that were necessary in order to make them possible at all. It was, too, a year in which there emerged a stalemate between the center-right and center-left coalitions which, pending the regional elections of 2005 and the general election of 2006, took almost equal shares of the vote at the elections for the European Parliament.

This volume examines these elections, paying special attention to Forza Italia, the prime minister's party, and the workings of the governing alliance and gives a well-rounded overview over the year's most important developments regarding the government's approach to the European constitution, the new judicial system, and the pensions legislation - the only major reform actually completed during 2004.

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Chronology of Italian political events, 2004	p. 1
Introduction : 2004 - a year "on hold"	p. 29
Intra- and inter-alliance relations after the 2004 European and provincial elections	p. 47
The elections in the cities : yet another defeat for the center-right	p. 65
Forza Italia after ten years	p. 83
Playing the wrong tunes? : Italy and the European Union in 2004	p. 100
The constitutional reforms of the center-right	p. 117
The role of the ministry of the economy and finance	p. 136
The reform of the judiciary	p. 153
The Berlusconi pension reform and the emerging "double cleavage" in distributive politics	p. 172
The collapse of Parmalat	p. 190
The question of the middle class	p. 204
Confindustria under Montezemolo	p. 223
Documentary appendix	p. 242
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