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Between crisis and transitions : Italian politics in the 1990s Martin Bull and Martin Rhodes -- Hollowing out and hardening the state : European integration and the Italian economy Vincent della Sala -- No longer a 'party state'? Institutions, power and the problems of Italian reform Giafranco Pasquino -- Financing party politics in Italy : a case of systemic corruption Martin Rhodes -- Party organisations and alliances in Italy in the 1990s : a revolution of sorts James J. Newell and Martin Bull -- 'Electoral transition' and party system change in Italy Roberto D'Alimonte and Stefano Bartolini -- Politics and the mass media in Italy Luca Ricolfi -- The judiciary in the Italian political crisis Carlo Guarnieri -- Sub-national governments in the long Italian transition Bruno Dente -- The reform of finance and administration in Italy : contrasting achievements Giacinto della Cananea -- Employers, unions and the state : the resurgence of concertation in Italy? Marino Regini and Ida Regalia -- The uncertain future of the Italian welfare state Maurizio Ferrera

This book analyses the impact of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union on the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Seven case-studies, covering the Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, British and German parties, provide a tightly-argued comparative perspective. The conclusion assesses the range of responses to the dramatic events of 1989-91 and likely future direction of the west European communist movement. It is argued that, whilst it is no longer possible to talk of a coherent 'family' of communist parties, various individual parties - some of them in revised form - may continue to prosper

IN ITALY, WHEN ACHILLE OCCHETTO BECAME GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY (PCI) IN THE SUMMER OF 1988 HE INHERITED A PARTY THAT WAS POLITICALLY ISOLATED AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AND DECLINING BOTH ELECTORALLY AND ORGANIZTIONALLY. OCCHETTO EMBARKED UPON A PROGRAM OF POLITICAL, IDEOLOGICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL RENEWAL WHICH SOUGHT TO REVERSE THE DECLINE AND TRANSFORM THE PCI INTO A PARTY OF GOVERNMENT. THE UPHEAVALS IN THE COMMUNIST REGIMES OF EASTERN EUROPE ACCELERATED THE PROCESS OF PARTY REFORM, CULMINATING IN THE DECISION OF THE NINETEENTH CONGRESS (MARCH 1990) TO DISSOLVE THE PCI AND CREATE A NEW DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST FORCE.