Italian Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film

   Cinema Year Zero

   By Giuliana Minghelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
2. Education in Political Science

   Discovering a neglected field

   Edited by Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens, Klaus Dieter Wolf

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytical perspectives and methodological tools. The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a variety...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Europeanization and Domestic Policy Change

   The Case of Italy

   By Paolo Graziano

   Series: Europe and the Nation State

   This book examines the impact of Europeanization on the domestic politics of EU member states, focussing on agricultural policy, cohesion policy and employment policy with a detailed comparative case study on Italy. Though a founding member, Italy has often had an uneasy relationship with the EU...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy

   By John Champagne

   Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

   Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining paintings, films, music and literature in light of...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Politics of Segmentation

   Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe

   By Georg Picot

   Series: Routledge/EUI Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State

   When political parties make policy decisions they are influenced by the competition they face from other parties. This book examines how party competition and party systems affect reforms of social protection. Featuring a historical comparison of Italy and Germany post-1945, the book shows how a...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. Euroscepticism in Southern Europe

   A Diachronic Perspective

   Edited by Susannah Verney

   Series: South European Society and Politics

   Euroscepticism has emerged as a growing constraint on European integration, starting with the Maastricht Treaty in the early 1990s, continuing with the mid-2000s constitutional debacle and intensifying with the eurozone crisis – a crisis in which Southern Europe has played a key role. But is...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. Perspectives of National Elites on European Citizenship

   A South European View

   Edited by Nicolò Conti, Maurizio Cotta, Pedro Tavares de Almeida

   Series: South European Society and Politics

   Over the last two decades, the process of European integration has become interwoven with the theme of citizenship and the debate on the democratic quality of the EU and of its institutions has become more salient. What are the views about Europe which emerge when we interrogate the national elites...

   Published October 2nd 2011 by Routledge
8. Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism

   The “Politics of the Past” in Southern European Democracies

   Edited by Antonio Costa Pinto, Leonardo Morlino

   Series: South European Society and Politics

   In recent years the agenda of how to ‘deal with the past’ has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Re-inventing the Italian Right

   Territorial politics, populism and 'post-fascism'

   By Stefano Fella, Carlo Ruzza

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   Following his third election victory in 2008, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the most controversial head of government in the EU. This is a cogent examination of the Berlusconi phenomenon, exploring the success and development of the new populist right-wing coalition in Italy...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
10. Constructing Democracy in Southern Europe

    A comparative analysis of Italy, Spain and Turkey

    By Lauren M. McLaren

    Series: Democratization Studies

    Why are some regimes democratic while others are not? Specifically, how have Spain and Italy managed to become democratic while Turkey, which shares many similar characteristics, has not? Spain, Italy and Turkey have shared common historical features which would have been disruptive to any new...

    Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge