Search for Good Government: Understanding the Paradox of Italian Democracy 9780773568273
Observers have frequently noted that Italians seem skilled at many things - but not at good government. As a people Ital
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
1 Italian Politics: School for Good Government
PART ONE: Constitutional Knowledge and Alternative Constitutional Designs in the Making of Italy
2. The Creation of the Italian State
3 The Constitutional Design That Did Not Happen
PART TWO: How the System Worked in Republican Italy: Institutional Learning and Constraints
4 Expectations and Results in Public Service Delivery
5 Problem Solving by Central Planning
PART THREE: The War on Crime as a Fight for Good Government
6 The Mafia and the Antimafia
7 The Political Economy of Crime and Punishment
PART FOUR: Why People Are Not Culturally or Path Dependently Doomed to Bad Government
8 The Search for the Real Montegrano
9 Path Dependence, Civic Culture, and Differential Government Performance
CONCLUSION
10 Good Government: The Elusive Dependent Variable
Notes
References
Index
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