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Berlusconi's Italy : mapping contemporary Italian politics / Michael E. Shin and John A. Agnew.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shin, Michael E. (Michael Edward)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voting--Italy.
- Voting.
- Elections--Italy--History.
- Elections.
- Political geography.
- Italy--Politics and government--1994-2018.
- Italy.
- Berlusconi, Silvio, 1936-.
- Berlusconi, Silvio.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Berlusconi's Italy provides a fresh, thoroughly-informed account of how Italy's richest man came to be its political leader. Without dismissing the importance of personalities and political parties, it emphasizes the significance of changes in voting behaviors that led to the rise-and eventual fall-of Silvio Berlusconi, the millionaire media baron who became Prime Minister. Armed with new data and new analytic tools, Michael Shin and John Agnew use recently developed methods of spatial analysis, to offer a compelling new argument about contextual re-creation and mutation. They reve
- Contents:
- Introduction: Berlusconi's Italy
- The geography of the new bipolarity, 1994-2006
- Party replacement, Italian style
- The geographical secret to Berlusconi's success
- What went up later came down
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-163) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611879013
- 9781281879011
- 1281879010
- 9781592137183
- 1592137180
- OCLC:
- 476204122
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