The Italian Revolution: The End of Politics, Italian Style? by Mark Gilbert

Author:Mark Gilbert [Gilbert, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780429964923
Google: y_7EDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-08T10:24:46+00:00

Notes

1. L’Unità, June 11, 1991.

2. La Repubblica, June 11, 1991.

3. Giovanni Valentini, “Ripulisti,” L’Espresso, June 23, 1991.

4. Gianfranco Pasquino, L’Unità, June 11, 1991.

5. Giorgio Bocca, “E adesso riformiamo i partiti,” L’Espresso, June 23, 1991.

6. This is a reference to Percy Allum, Italy: Republic Without Government, London (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 1973.

7. A good short survey of the history of electoral reform in Italy, including the “Swindle Law,” is Pietro Scoppola, “Dalla Assemblea costituente alia “grande riforma,” II Mulino (35), May-June 1986, pp 453-467.

8. Pasquino’s draft legislation is reproduced in Sebastiano Messina, La Grande Riforma, Bari (Laterza) 1992, pp 180-181. Messina discusses Pasquino’s proposals pp 97-107. Pasquino, who is a very prolific author, discusses his plan in Restituiré lo scettro al principe: Proposte di riforma istituzionale, Bari (Laterza) 1985. Pasquino writes on the theory of sovereignty in his Alla ricerca dello scettro perduto, Bologna (II Mulino) 1990, while his views on the limited power of individual Italian citizens to influence the political system were brilliantly summarized in his essay “Ex voto: gli strumenti della cittadinanza politica,” II Mulino (40), March-April 1991, pp 328-337. His short book La Repubblica dei cittadini ombra, Milan (Garzanti), 1991, deals with the same theme at greater length.

9. Describing the D’Hondt formula without the help of a diagram is almost impossible. To illustrate the technique, let us look at the following example. A small political association that is divided into three internal factions wants to elect its five-person governing committee. The members vote and the following result is recorded:

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