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The Pentapartito (2015)
Book Chapter

The pentapartito was the five-party governing coalition which, aside from two brief interruptions, held governmental office in Italy between June 1981 and April 1991. The parties making up the coalition were: Christian Democracy (DC), the Italian Soc... Read More about The Pentapartito.

Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west (1998)
Book Chapter

This article, by analysing three different approaches to west European communism in the political science literature, attempts to explain how and why the largest communist party in the West, the Italian Communist Party, took the decision to dissolve... Read More about Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west.

From pluralism to pluralism : Italy and the corporatist debate (1988)
Book Chapter

This chapter analyses the application of the concept and practice of neo-corporatism to the relationship between the state, business and trade unions in post-war Italy, finding the Italian case to be distinctive and different to trends elsewhere.