Italy Today: The Sick Man of EuropeAndrea Mammone, Giuseppe A. Veltri Italy Today represents one of the most comprehensive examinations of contemporary Italy. It is a provocative and an innovative collection that aims to highlight the current ‘crisis’ of the country through an analysis of several different ‘dark shadows’ of contemporary Italian society. Italy already had a long history of ‘unsolved’ issues, several chronic problems and contradictions that have been ignored for a very long time, during which they have assumed dramatic proportions and gravity. The peninsula has now become the ‘Sick Man of Europe’, a country facing a veritable decline also caused by apparent incapacity and difficulties of the ruling economic, political and social elites. Discussions include:
Written by leading experts in the field and covering a wide range of topics, this collection is essential reading for all those seeking to understand the issues and problems that are facing contemporary Italy. |
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how political leaders | |
The programmatic convergence of parties and their weakness in policy | |
NICOLÒ CONTI49 | |
Family politics the Catholic Church and the transformation of family | |
8The legacy of the strategy of tension and the armed conflict in | |
Italico 123 | |
Social exclusion and racial discrimination | |
The Catholic Church universal truth and the debate on national | |
Ndrangheta made in Calabria | |
clientelism and organized crime | |
Industrialization convergence and governance | |
Italy is still struggling with | |
SIMONAMILIO 213 | |
The crisis of family firms and the decline of Italian capitalism | |