Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy
History, Politics, Society
Edited by Andrea Mammone, Giuseppe Veltri, Giap Parini
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge – 400 pages
Description
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy provides a comprehensive account of Italy and Italian politics in the 21st Century. Featuring contributions from many of the leading scholars of Italian politics & society, the Handbook features over 30 chapters which are organized to provide unparalleled analysis of this complex and fascinating subject. The main subjects covered in each of the main sections include:
• The Institutional System
• Party Families and (New Politics)
• Italy in the Wider World
• Politics and Economy, and their Impact on Italian Society
• Religion and Italian Society
• New and Old Issues: Changes and Continuities in Italian Life
• Italian Passions
This is an essential reference work for all those with an interest in Italian politics and history.
Contents
Introduction: Italy between past and future
Section I - Institutional System
1. Parliaments and Governments: From the First to the Second Republic
2. Territorial Politics and the Prospects of Federalism
3. Electoral Systems
4. The Judiciary Between (Needed) Reforms and Political Pressures
Section II - Party Families and (New) Politics
5. An all-catching Right: Berlusconi’s People of Freedom
6. Left and Center-Left: Evolution, Crisis, Future Perspectives
7. Blackshirts again: Neo-Fascisism in Italian Politics (and social movements)
8. From the Democrazia Cristiana to the Archipelago of Catholic parties
9. The Northern League
10. Magistrates Joining Politics: The Italy of Values
11. Social Movements Italian-Style: When Non-Party Organizations Matter
Section III - Italy in the Wider World
12. Italian Foreign Policy
13. Italy and the EU: Politics, Society and Economy
14. Italy in the Mediterranean
15. Italian Communities Abroad: The Case of Northern America
Section IV - Politics and Economy, and their Impact on Italian Society
16. Economic Policies since the Second Republic: Any Success?
17. Industrialization and Crisis
18. Labor Politics
19. Welfare in Italy
20. Youth’s Condition: “It is so difficult to get older”
21. Emigration and Brain-drain
Section V - Religion and Italian Society
22. Religion and the State
23. Religion and Italians
24. Vatican and Italian politics
25. Islam in Italy
Section VI - New and Old Issues: Changes and Continuities in Italian Life
26. Family: Old or New?
27. Immigration: New Faces of Italy
28. Racism
29. Science and Society
30. Media, Politics and Society
31. Mafia
32. Social Values: Differences Across Italian Regions
Section VII - Italian Passions
33. Food
34. Football
35. Cinema
36. Literature and Culture
Author Bio
Andrea Mammone is a Lecturer in Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London
Giuseppe A. Veltri is teaching Methods of Social Inquiry at University of East Anglia . Giuseppe A. Veltri is a Lecturer in Media and Culture at University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Giap Parini is Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Calbria, ItalyName: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy: History, Politics, Society (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Andrea Mammone, Giuseppe Veltri, Giap Parini. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy provides a comprehensive account of Italy and Italian politics in the 21st Century. Featuring contributions from many of the leading scholars of Italian politics & society, the Handbook features over 30...
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