Political Parties and Coalitional Behaviour in Italy

1. Auflage 1988
ISBN: 978-0-415-00503-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 770 g

Coalitional behaviour is central to the Italian system of government but has been largely neglected by research. As a result, coalitions in post-war Italy have been viewed as simply unstable, short-lived and incohesive. In this book, the author corrects this one-sidedness by analysing Italian coalition politics as a continuous and dynamic process. His comprehensive, interpretative approach takes account of other new developments in coalition studies and relates his subject both to the literature on Italian politics and to the comparative study of party systems in liberal democracies. An introductory section places Italian coalitional behaviour in a theoretical and comparative context. This inductive framework is then used as a reference for examining the historical, institutional, motivational, internal, socio-political andenvironmental dimensions of the phenomenon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pridham, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Interpreting Italian Coalitional Behaviour: The Theory and the Practice; Chapter 1 Coalition Theory and the Case of Italy; Chapter 2 Italy's Part y System and Coalitional Behaviour in Comparative Perspective; Chapter 3 Italian Coalitional Behaviour in the Literature; Chapter 4 Inductive Theory and Research Methodology; Part 2 Italian Coalitional Behaviour: Multi-Dimensional Perspectives on National Politics; Chapter 5 The Historical Dimension: Patterns, Traditions and Conventions; Chapter 6 The Institutional Dimension: Formalities and Realities of Governing Structures; Chapter 7 The Motivational Dimension: Problems of Power, Ideology and Strategy; Part 3 Italian Coalitional Behaviour: Sub-National Politics and Vertical Linkages; Chapter 8 The Horizontal/Vertical Dimension: A Case of Unity in Diversity?; Chapter 9 The Internal Part y Dimension: Elite Control and Elite Constraints; Part 4 Italian Coalitional Behaviour in a Deeper and Wider Setting; Chapter 10 The Socio-Political Dimension: Coalition Politics and the Public Domain; Chapter 11 The Environmental/External Dimension: Wider Perspectives on Italian Coalition Politics;

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey Pridham