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In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis (2018)
Book Chapter

The eurozone crisis had a more significant and longer-lasting impact on Italy than on virtually any other member state, with the effects still visible a decade after. The extent of the shock was surprising in view of progress Italy had apparently mad... Read More about In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis.

Introduction : Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism? (2018)
Book Chapter

Italian politics have undergone momentous changes in the 2007-2017 decade under the impact of the eurozone crisis, whose peak in 2011-2013 could be equated to the earlier watershed years of 1992-1994. The lasting impact of the upheaval in Italian pol... Read More about Introduction : Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism?.

Italy Transformed : politics, society and institutions at the end of the great recession (2018)
Book

The decade commencing with the great crash of 2008 was a watershed period for Italian politics, involving fundamental and dramatic changes, many of which had not been anticipated and which are charted in this book, which analyses: the impact of the E... Read More about Italy Transformed : politics, society and institutions at the end of the great recession.

Maestri of political science (2011)
Book

This book continues the editors' work (started in the volume Masters of Political Science) of highlighting and re-evaluating the contributions of the most important political scientists who have gone before. Its basis is the belief that the future de... Read More about Maestri of political science.

Special issue: Forty years of European Political Science (2010)
Book
(2010). J. Briggs, M. Bull, L. de Sousa, & J. Moses (Eds.), Special issue: Forty years of European Political Science. Palgrave Macmillan

This Special Issue of European Political Science on 'forty Years of European Political Science' is part of the celebrations of the European Consortium of Political Research's 40th anniversary in 2010. The issue is less a celebration of the ECPR, howe... Read More about Special issue: Forty years of European Political Science.

A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy (2009)
Book Chapter

Of all the issues that have been regarded as necessary to stabilising Italian politics following the dramatic upheaval of the 1990s, none has been more important than constitutional and institutional reforms. Yet, there has been an unqualified failur... Read More about A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy.

Italy - A contested polity (2009)
Book

Despite the promise of the so-called 'Second Republic' in the early 1990s, Italy remains one of Europe's least well-governed countries. Optimistic expectations were generated in the early 1990s by an apparently new generation of reformers. However, t... Read More about Italy - A contested polity.

Struggling to protest : the Italian Communist party and the protest cycle, 1972-77 (2005)
Thesis
Edwards, P. Struggling to protest : the Italian Communist party and the protest cycle, 1972-77. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

My thesis traces the interaction between the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and a series of
social movements which emerged in Italy between 1972 and 1977: the 'area of Autonomia\
which pioneered new forms of workplace and community activism between... Read More about Struggling to protest : the Italian Communist party and the protest cycle, 1972-77.

Political corruption in Italy (2003)
Book Chapter

Corruption in Italy presents something of a paradox. On the one hand, it is perceived as extensive. In the mid-1990s, for example, Paul Ginsborg branded the country as 'one of the most corrupt democracies in Europe'; on the other hand, notwithstandin... Read More about Political corruption in Italy.

New avenues in the study of political corruption (1997)
Journal Article
Bull, M., & Newell, J. (1997). New avenues in the study of political corruption. Crime, Law and Social Change, 27(3/4), 169-183. https://doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1008232802273

This article argues that the 1990s have witnessed a sea change in the study of political corruption, especially in political science. It explores the reasons for the relative neglect of corruption by political science in the past, and suggests that a... Read More about New avenues in the study of political corruption.