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Berlusconism and Italy : a historical interpretation / Giovanni Orsina.
Van Pelt Library DG583.5 .O7713 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orsina, Giovanni, author.
- Series:
- Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Italian and Italian American studies
- Standardized Title:
- Berlusconismo nella storia d'Italia. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Berlusconi, Silvio, 1936-2023--Influence.
- Berlusconi, Silvio.
- Berlusconi, Silvio, 1936-2023--Political and social views.
- Berlusconi, Silvio, 1936-2023.
- Voting--Italy.
- Voting.
- Political culture--Italy.
- Political culture.
- Political and social views.
- Italy.
- Italy--Politics and government--1994-2018.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- x, 199 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Contents:
- 1. The Italian question
- Modernity and the Mediterranean
- Popper and Plato
- Italy's varied backwardness
- The paradoxes of Jacobinism
- The unobtainable truth
- Illiberal Italy
- 2. The antifascist Republic and its parties
- The parties of the Republic
- Right-wing antipartyism
- The impact of the 1960s
- Hold your nose and vote DC
- The 1980s and the crisis of the Republic
- The arch-party
- Towards Berlusconism
- 3. Berlusconism
- The politics of Berlusconism
- The state as a friend
- Hypopolitics
- A political elite of nonprofessional politicians
- Berlusconism, the plural right, and bipolarism
- Berlusconi's three clocks
- Berlusconism and bipolarism
- Defining Berlusconism
- 4. The Berlusconi voter
- Who voted for Berlusconi?
- Why did people vote for Berlusconi?
- The politics of skepticism
- 5. The rise and fall of Berlusconism
- 1994 : revolutionary Berlusconism
- 1996-2001 : the consolidation of Berlusconism
- 2001-6 : Berlusconism of government
- 2005-6 : the end of Berlusconism?
- 2006-11 : Berlusconi without Berlusconism
- Epilogue: The fly in the bottle
- A note on the most relevant center-right and right-wing parties and coalitions, 1994-2013.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137438669
- 1137438665
- OCLC:
- 893039375
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