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On Friday, September 26, 2014, an international conference entitled Giovanni Sartori: 90 Years of a Political Scientist was held in Prague on the occasion of the ninetieth birthday of the Italian political scientist. The conference was organized by the Institute of International Studies and the Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, in cooperation with the Embassy of Italy to the Czech Republic. The conference venue was the Italian Cultural Institute, which provided a dignified setting for the entire event. The conference was held under the auspices of the Rector of Charles University, Tomas Zima, and the Italian Ambassador to the Czech Republic, H. E. Pasquale D'Avino. Adapted from the source document.

The paper deals with the organizational model of political parties created by Italian political scientist Angelo Panebianco. For presentation of this, outside Italian academic discourse, an 'unknown' model is necessary to briefly describe the whole organizational theory and to introduce the review of this model. After that we examine the applicability of Panebianco's scheme on the structural transformation of communist political parties at the end of 1980s. This suitability will be measured on the case example of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). The PCI was historically the strongest and most influential communist party outside the Soviet bloc and that is why it is convenient to apply the organizational model to the organizational changes of the PCI during its transformation. We also define five main criteria of these changes and their compatibility with the Panebianco's model. Thus the main aim of this paper is to prove the suitability of the organizational model not only to the structural transformation of the Italian communists but using this case example also to the universal transformation of the communist parties in the western world. Adapted from the source document.