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Political Enemies in Republican Italy

Marco Gervasoni, Giovanni Orsina
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      Political factionalism and ideological polarization have run high in Italian history. They must be taken into account in any attempt to explain the frailty of Italian public institutions – their instability, inefficiency, feeble legitimacy, inability to win citizens’ respect, and subservience to sectional interests. Moreover, Italian politics since the Risorgimento can be interpreted as a 150 year-long attempt to prevent factionalism and polarization from spinning out of control and becoming disruptive for the country. This book deals with the historical question of political factionalism and ideological polarization in post-1945 Italy from the point of view of delegitimation. In our definition, delegitimation occurs when one political subject denies another in principle the right to exist, and in more concrete terms that of governing the country, by arguing that it is incompatible with one or more of the values on which the public sphere is founded. The essays in this book chart the story of political delegitimation in post-1945 Italy as it occurred in different political parties, exploited different discursive arguments, was instrumental to different political projects, and was met with counter-arguments aimed at defusing it, or even at trying to counter-delegitimize the delegitimizers. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Marco Gervasoni, Giovanni Orsina EAN: 9780367529932 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 700 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-03-31 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Italy, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 1946–1968 (post Second World War period and Foundation of Italian Republic), 1990–1999 (period of the crisis of the Nineties and so-called Second Republic in Italy), Political ideologies and movements, Political structure and processes, European history

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      Marco Gervasoni is full professor of Contemporary History, Università degli Studi del Molise and Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is a history of the extreme right in France.Giovanni Orsina is full professor of Contemporary History, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is Berlusconism and Italy. A Historical Interpretation (2014).
      Political factionalism and ideological polarization have run high in Italian history. They must be taken into account in any attempt to explain the frailty of Italian public institutions – their instability, inefficiency, feeble legitimacy, inability to win citizens’ respect, and subservience to sectional interests. Moreover, Italian politics since the Risorgimento can be interpreted as a 150 year-long attempt to prevent factionalism and polarization from spinning out of control and becoming disruptive for the country. This book deals with the historical question of political factionalism and ideological polarization in post-1945 Italy from the point of view of delegitimation. In our definition, delegitimation occurs when one political subject denies another in principle the right to exist, and in more concrete terms that of governing the country, by arguing that it is incompatible with one or more of the values on which the public sphere is founded. The essays in this book chart the story of political delegitimation in post-1945 Italy as it occurred in different political parties, exploited different discursive arguments, was instrumental to different political projects, and was met with counter-arguments aimed at defusing it, or even at trying to counter-delegitimize the delegitimizers. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Marco Gervasoni, Giovanni Orsina EAN: 9780367529932 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 700 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-03-31 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Italy, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 1946–1968 (post Second World War period and Foundation of Italian Republic), 1990–1999 (period of the crisis of the Nineties and so-called Second Republic in Italy), Political ideologies and movements, Political structure and processes, European history

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      Marco Gervasoni is full professor of Contemporary History, Università degli Studi del Molise and Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is a history of the extreme right in France.Giovanni Orsina is full professor of Contemporary History, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is Berlusconism and Italy. A Historical Interpretation (2014).

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