The Crisis of the Italian State: From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi - Hardcover
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`This analysis of the crisis of Italy's parliamentary and party system by a learned and thought-provoking professor of European studies at The Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center provides an account of the turbulent politics of 1992-94.' - Stanley Hoffmann, Foreign Affairs The first complete account of Italy's current governmental crisis and its roots in the Cold War period. The current governmental crisis in Italy is not a historical anomaly in that country, but rather just one more development in an evolving crisis of government that began with the close of World War 2. As the Christian Democrats came to power, the hope of the Italian people was pinned on their promises for a renewed Italy. As time progressed, it became obvious that the trust of the people had been misplaced. In the first full English language account of the clean hands crisis, Patrick McCarthy finds the roots of Berlusconi's rise and fall in the practices of clientalism, the machinations of the Mafia, the corporate direction of Fiat, the edicts of the Vatican and even the organization of the Italian soccer league. Showing the way in which political corruption had reached its tentacles into every aspect of Italian life, Patrick McCarthy weaves a fascinating story that will be of great interest to any reader of current affairs.
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'McCarthy gives an exemplary account - the best to appear in English so far - of what went wrong with the Italian State during the nearly fifty-year duration of the First Republic.' - Times Literary Supplement
'(McCarthy) lays bare the causes of the decline of the ancien régime...this is not a simple account of the death-throes of the Christian Democrats, but a study that explains contemporary Italy by delving into its past.' - Le Monde
'Learned and thought-provoking...McCarthy has many shrewd things to say about the corruption of the state and its relations with a rapidly changing Italian society...lucid, insightful, and original.' - Foreign Affairs
About the Author
Patrick McCarthy is Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center. He was Professor of European Studies at JHU, Bologna. He is the author of many books including The Crisis of the Italian State and France-Germany in the Twenty-First Century.
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