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  • Die Macht der Parlamenteby Martin Sebaldt

    Springer Fachmedien 2009; US$ 54.99

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  • The Lega Nord and the Politics of Secession in Italyby Professor Anna Cento Bull; Dr Mark Gilbert

    Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 145.00

    Since the late 1980s, the Lega Nord has broken the mould of Italian politics. Federalist, secessionist, populist, it has succeeded in mobilizing the entrepreneurial class of Northern Italy in a campaign against the Italian state. In 1996, it launched the idea of Panadia , a separate Northern Italian nation. This proved to be a step too far, but the... more...

  • Constructing Democracy in Southern Europeby Lauren M. McLaren

    Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 49.95

    Why are some regimes democratic while others are not? Specifically, how have Spain and Italy managed to become democratic while Turkey, which shares many similar characteristics, has not? Spain, Italy and Turkey have shared common historical features which would have been disruptive to any new democracy; however they represent a wide array of... more...

  • Italian Institutional Reformsby Fabio Padovano; Roberto Ricciuti

    Springer 2007; US$ 99.99

    Explains the evolution and political and economic impact of changes to the Italian institutional framework. This book pays attention to the introduction of the Euro, the reform of voting from proportional to majoritarian rule, the impact of corporatism, and the switch from a centralized government to a federal organization. more...

  • Agents of the Peopleby Pasi Ihalainen

    BRILL 2010; US$ 191.00

    Analysing parliamentary references to the people, this book provides a more nuanced interpretation of eighteenth-century re-evaluations of democracy. It shows how interaction between parliamentarians and the public sphere in different political cultures produced more modern conceptions of the legitimacy of political power. more...

  • Resisting the Tideby Daniele Albertazzi; Clodagh Brook; Charlotte Ross

    Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 130.00

    Edited by members of the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham, and bringing together academics in Britain, Ireland, the US and Italy, this volume takes an international perspective on Italian events. It investigates how resistance to the new conservative culture has been articulated, and how this has been expressed and explained... more...

  • Subsidiarity Governanceby Alessandro Colombo

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00

    This volume summarizes the key elements and main features of a subsidiarity-informed model of governance and outlines an analytical framework which can be applied to other subsidiarity-informed models of governance worldwide. more...

  • Order! Order!by Robert Rogers

    Biteback Publishing 2012; US$ 18.94

    The village of Parliament has a colourful history of conflict, great oratory, wit and repartee, strange customs and larger-than-life characters, and this rich and entertaining miscellany embraces them all. On his enthralling textual tour, Robert Rogers, the Clerk of the House of Commons, looks not only at the memorable and often fiery politicians... more...

  • Parliamentary reform at Westministerby Alexandra Kelso

    Manchester University Press 2009; US$ 95.00

    The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Events have consequently demonstrated the deep controversy that accompanies such attempts at institutional reconfiguration, and have highlighted the shifting fault-lines in... more...