Abstract
Plusieurs analystes ont expliqué la disparition du système politique italien de l'aprèsguerre comme un effet de la fin de la guerre froide. Privés du ciment de l'anticommunisme, les Italiens seraient enfin libres de remplacer un régime corrompu. Il semble, au contraire, que les changements récents doivent être considérés comme l'effet de dynamiques transnationales et sociétales sur les États-providence modernes qui ont subverti le contrat consociatif-clientéliste sur lequel reposait l'économie politique italienne. Tant que les problèmes fondamentaux de ce contrat demeurent sans solution, comme par exemple l'absence de distinction nette entre la sphère politique et la sphère économique, ou l'application systématique de doubles nonnes, il est prématuré de parler d'un passage à la Seconde République italienne.
Several analysts have explained the end of the post-war political system in Italy as an effect of the end of the Cold War. Deprived of the anti-communist cement, Italians, it is asserted, were finally free to replace their corrupt regime. In fact, the recent changes should be seen as the impact of transnational and societal dynamics on modern welfare states, which have subverted the consociational-clientelistic compact on which Italy's political economy was based. As long as the fundamental problems of that compact remain unsolved, for instance the lack of a clear distinction between the political and economic spheres or the systematic application of double standards, it is premature to talk of the advent of a Second Italian Republic.
Several analysts have explained the end of the post-war political system in Italy as an effect of the end of the Cold War. Deprived of the anti-communist cement, Italians, it is asserted, were finally free to replace their corrupt regime. In fact, the recent changes should be seen as the impact of transnational and societal dynamics on modern welfare states, which have subverted the consociational-clientelistic compact on which Italy's political economy was based. As long as the fundamental problems of that compact remain unsolved, for instance the lack of a clear distinction between the political and economic spheres or the systematic application of double standards, it is premature to talk of the advent of a Second Italian Republic.
| Translated title of the contribution | The ‘Long Night of the First Republic’: Clientelistic implosion in Italy |
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| Original language | French |
| Journal | Revue française de science politique |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Pages (from-to) | 979-1013 |
| ISSN | 0035-2950 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1994 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Clientelism
- Italian politics
- Party systems
- Comparative Political Economy