This book puts forward an original comparison of the policy positions of seven Italian coalition governments and of the relative policy positions of the Italian parliamentary parties from 1994 to 2006.
That decade was crucial in recent Italian political history because since 1994 the party system in Italy has been going through a process of realignment. After almost 50 years of political immobility, Italian democracy has finally begun to work according to the principle of alternating power between government incumbents and the opposition.
Specific methodology was developed for this research, with the political 'themes' articulated by Government and Parliamentary leaders treated as expressions of political preferences. Rather than positioning the parties on predetermined left-right scales, the "spaces of competition" were derived directly by the political debates in parliament.
- ISBN10 1906221723
- ISBN13 9781906221720
- Publish Date 7 April 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 November 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Troubador Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 250
- Language English