Introduction: The New Italian Republic I Context 1. Explaining Italy's
Crisis 2. Electoral Reform and Political Change in Italy 1991-94 II The Old
Party System 1. Political Catholicism and the Strange Death of the
Christian Democrats 2. Italian Communism in the First Republic 3. The Rise
and fall of Craxi's Socialist Party 4. The Fate of the Secular Centre: The
Liberals, Republicans and the Social Democrats III The New Parties 7. The
Northern League from Regional Party to Party of Government 8. Forza Italia:
The New Politics and Old Values of a Changing Italy 9. towards a Modern
Right: Alleanza Nazionale and the Italian Revolution 10. The Great Failure?
The PDs in Italy's Transition 11. The Left Oppossition and the crisis:
Rifondazione Comunista and La Rete IV Politics and Society 12. A Legal
Revolution? The Judges and the Tagentopoli 13. The Mass media and the
Political Crisis 14. The System of Corrupt Exchange in Local Government 15.
The Resistable Rise of the New Neopolitan Camorra 16. The Changing
Mezzogiorno: Between Representations and Reality V Economic Aspects of the
Crisis 17. The Economic Elites and the Political System 18. Excesses anf
Limits of the Public Sector in the Italian Economy 19. Industrial Relations
and the Labour Movement VI Conclusion 20 Italian Political Reform in
Comparative Perspective
