 A Second Republic for Italy?Mark Donovan Political Studies Review, 2003, vol. 1, issue 1, 18-33 Abstract: Radical change in the representative dimension of Italy's political system was expected to bring a transition to a ‘Second Republic’ in Italy. That has not happened. Nevertheless, after three consultations using the new parliamentary electoral system, studies focusing on the ‘input’ side of Italian politics are beginning to agree that substantial change has occurred. It is, however, too early to identify the extent of change in public administration and centre–local government relations, whilst even in parliament it is argued that consensual decision‐making continued at least into the late 1990s. The impact of party system change on policy‐making has thus been shown to be less direct than many expected, providing rich material for research into the relationship between institutional and policy change. Nevertheless, institutional change continues, particularly with regard to the decentralisation of government, and some studies suggest that this is the key to Italy's political transformation, rather than electoral reform or even change in the form of government. Still, the election of Italy's first right‐wing majority government in 2001 may yet bring change in parliamentary practice and policy‐making more generally. Date: 2003 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:pstrev:v:1:y:2003:i:1:p:18-33 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Political Studies Review is currently edited by Matthew Festenstein and Martin Smith More articles in Political Studies Review from Political Studies Association |
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