Volume 48, Number 16 · October 18, 2001
Berlusconi's Way
By Tim Parks
L'odore dei soldi (The Smell of Money)
by Marco Travaglio
Rome: Editori Riuniti, 342 pp., L24,000
Social Identities and Political Cultures in Italy: Catholic, Communist and Leghist Communities Between Civicness and Localism
by Anna Cento Bull
Berghahn, 272 pp., $59.95
L'Italia che ho in mente (The Italy I Have in Mind)
by Silvio Berlusconi
Milan: Mondadori, 310 pp., L26,000
Italian Politics 1998: The Return of Politics
edited by David Hine and Salvatore Vassallo
Istituto Cattaneo/Berghahn, 278 pp., $59.95 (paper)
Italian Politics 1999: The Faltering Transition
edited by Mark Gilbert and Gianfranco Pasquino
Istituto Cattaneo/Berghahn, 276 pp., $49.95
Over every debate about Italian politics hovers the tyranny of the model. Italy is out of line. 'The Funding of Political Parties and Control of the Media: Another Italian Anomaly' proclaims the title of one essay in an annual roundup of developments in the bel paese produced by the Istituto Cattaneo, a private political think tank in Bologna. 'The End of Italy's Referendum Anomaly?' inquires another. And yet another: 'Italy's December 1998 'Social Pact for Development and Employment': Towards a New Political Economy for a 'Normal Country'?'
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