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Voluntary associations, political culture and social capital in Italy : a complex relationship
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Continuity and change in Italian electoral behaviour
No full textItalians' voting behaviour has shown a remarkable degree of stability for the first thirty years of the postwar period; Until the beginning of the 90s the voters' behaviour was characterized by a general but gradual dealignment, whose driving forces were both social - an outcome of the impressive Italian social change of postwar period - and political. However, voters expressed themselves within the old political and ideological constraints, whose subjective meaning had probably changed in some aspects over the years, but its echo was still effective on voting behaviour. With regard to the results of the General Elections of May 2001 the paper (1) draws a picture of Italian electorate; (2) portrays the main aspects of Italian political culture and behaviour; and (3) attempts to answer the question whether Italian voters continue to make their voting choices within the 'traditional' framework that dominated Italian politics or there are indications of new factors and socio-psychological mechanisms leading to voting decisions
Politica ed economia in Italia: la vicenda dell'impresa pubblica dagli anni trenta agli anni cinquanta
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Electoral choice in Italy between old patterns and emerging orientations: evidence from the 2001 general election
Full text linkItalians’ voting behaviour has shown a remarkable degree of stability for the first thirty years of the post-war period. Until the beginning of the 90s the voters’ behaviour was characterized by a general but gradual dealignment, whose driving forces were both social – an outcome of the impressive Italian social change of post war period – and political. However, voters expressed themselves within the old political and ideological constraints, whose subjective meaning had probably changed in some aspects over the years, but its echo was still effective on voting behaviour. With regard to the General Elections of May 2001, the paper – on the basis of a post-election survey - attempts to answer the question whether Italian voters continue to make their voting choices within the “traditional” framework that dominated Italian politics or there are indications of new factors and socio-psychological mechanisms leading to voting decisions
State/economy relationships : the case of Italian public enterprise
No full textThis paper aims at analysing a case of state/economy relationships in a Western capitalist country, with reference to the particular problem of the public enterprise, and at pointing out some of the characteristics of the Italian situation. The analysis, through an examination of the Fascist period and of the events of the 1950s, tries to identify different patterns of direct state intervention in the productive sphere and to relate them to some significant changes in the class structure and in the political system of the country. The case study is intended as a contribution to the debate concerning the construction of a 'theory of the state', for which it provides some empirical material about an example of state intervention in economic life
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