Italy: A Contested Polity. Special Issue of West European Politics

Italy: A contested polity - Martin Bull and Martin Rhodes; A long quest in vain: Institutional reforms in Italy - Martin Bull and Gianfranco Pasquino; Government under Berlusconi: The functioning of the core institutions in Italy - Salvatore Vassallo; Electoral change and its impact on the party system in Italy - Luciano Bardi; The Italian centre-right and centre-left: Between parties and 'the party' - Ilvo Diamanti; Italy's dysfunctional political economy - Marcello De Cecco; Eppure, non si muove: Legal change, institutional stability and Italian corporate governance - Pepper D. Culpepper; Industrial relations and the welfare state in Italy: Assessing the potential of negotiated change - Oscar Molina; Martin Rhodes; Corruption and anti-corruption: The political defeat of 'Clean Hands' in Italy - Donatella Della Porta; Alberto Vannucci (translated by Alex Wilson); Mafia and organised crime in Italy: The unacknowledged successes of law enforcement -Letizia Paoli; Conflicts of interest and media pluralism in Italian broadcasting - Matthew Hibberd; The domestic foundations of Italy's foreign and development policies -Maurizio Carbone; Italian politics and the European Union: A tale of two research designs - Claudio M. Radaelli