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In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis (2018)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2018). In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis. In M. Bull, & G. Pasquino (Eds.), Italy Transformed: Politics, Society and Institutions at the End of the Great Recession (13-28). Abingdon, UK: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

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
Bull, M., & Pasquino, G. (2018). Introduction : Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism?. In M. Bull, & G. Pasquino (Eds.), Italy Transformed: Politics, Society and Institutions at the End of the Great Recession (1-12). Abingdon, UK: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

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?.

A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy (2009)
Book Chapter
Bull, M., & Pasquino, G. (2009). A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy. In M. Bull, & M. Rhodes (Eds.), Italy - A contested polity (14-35). Abingdon & New York: Routledge

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.

Political corruption in Italy (2003)
Book Chapter
Newell, J., & Bull, M. (2003). Political corruption in Italy. In M. Bull, & J. Newell (Eds.), Corruption in Contemporary Politics (37-49). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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.