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Berlusconism and Italy = a historical interpretation /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Berlusconism and Italy/ Giovanni Orsina.
Reminder of title:	a historical interpretation /
Author:	Orsina, Giovanni.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	212 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Political culture - Italy. -
Subject:	Italy - Politics and government - 1994. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137438673 (electronic bk.) :

Berlusconism and Italy = a historical interpretation /
Orsina, Giovanni.

Berlusconism and Italya historical interpretation /[electronic resource] :Giovanni Orsina. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 212 p. - Italian and Italian American studies.

Electronic book text.

1. The Italian Question 2. The Antifascist Republic 3. Berlusconism 4. The Berlusconian Elector 5. The Evolution of Berlusconism 6. Epilogue: The Fly in the Bottle.

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From the outset, Silvio Berlusconi's career was expected to be short, and he has been considered finished several times, only to have reemerged victorious. This fascinating political and historical study shows that Berlusconi's success and resilience have lain in his ability to provide answers to longstanding questions in Italian history.Since 1994, when he first moved from business into public life, Silvio Berlusconi has been a defining figure in Italian politics. From the outset, his political career was expected to be short-lived, and over the following years he has been considered finished several times, most recently with his resignation in 2011 - yet each time, such predictions have been proven wrong. In this fascinating political and historical study, Giovanni Orsina shows that Berlusconi's success and resilience have lain in his ability to give significant political answers to longstanding questions in Italian history. In the process, he also shows how the weakened political parties, electoral volatility, resurgent populism, negative politics, and other post-democratic features of Berlusconi's Italy came to be.

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Giovanni Orsina is Associate Professor in Contemporary History and Deputy Director of the School of Government, Luiss-Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy.

ISBN: 1137438673 (electronic bk.) :£55.00Subjects--Personal Names:

1008758
Berlusconi, Silvio,
1936---Influence.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1008760
Political culture
--Italy.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

1008759
Italy
--Politics and government--1994.

LC Class. No.: DG583.5 / .O7713 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 945.092

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