Daedalus articles from June 2001

Daedalus archives from June 2001

The Crisis and Transformation of Italian Politics.
June 22, 2001... AT THE END OF THE 1980s, the political alliance that had served as a framework for Italian politics for almost thirty years reached an apparently irreversible condition of deadlock. The Democrazia Cristiana (DC) and the Partito Socialista...

Italy's Other Left.
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION I CAN SUM UP MUCH OF WHAT HAS BEEN SAID by Italy's formerly Communist Left in the post-Communist era as follows: "It is true, we were wrong, but we were right to be wrong: the other left was right, but it was wrong to be...

Italian Parliamentary Institutions: An Evolutionary Overview.
June 22, 2001... TO THE CASUAL OBSERVER, Italy may seem to be a country paradoxically independent of politics. Parties come and go, regimes rise and fall--yet Italy slowly but surely reforms its laws and solves its pressing economic challenges. Despite the...

Democracy at Work: Social Participation and the "Third Sector" in Italy.
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION IF A CONTEMPORARY TOCQUEVILLE had visited Italy at the end of the 1970s and looked for independent civic associations to describe in a book about "Democracy in Italy," he would have produced a very thin volume. [1] Our...

Il Caso Italiano and Globalization.
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO, under the generous and energetic tutelage of Fabio Luca Cavazza, a group of foreign scholars came to Italy as first-time students of the "Italian case." We shared our puzzlement over this complex...

Cheese, Children, and Container Cranes: Learning from Reggio Emilia.(resilience of small business in Italy)
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION IN THE EVALUATION OF INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS, the conventional approach treats nations as the basic unit of analysis and seeks to explain cross-border variation in economic performance by focusing on particular institutional...

Reflections on Political Culture and the "Italian National Character".
June 22, 2001... THE DEBATE OVER "AMORAL FAMILISM" AND ITS CONSEQUENCES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 1960S, Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba wrote that "Italians tend to look upon government and politics as unpredictable and threatening forces, and not as social...

Too Few Children and Too Much Family.(young adults overly dependent on parents)
June 22, 2001... THE WELL-BRED, SOPHISTICATED, and cultivated Anglo-Saxon traveler of past centuries, usually ecstatic in Venice's Piazza San Marco, amidst the ruins of Rome or Pompeii, ascending Vesuvius, or facing Botticelli's Primavera, could not ignore the...

Crime, Italian Style.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... ILLEGALITY AND CRIME ARE FREQUENTLY ASSUMED to be intertwined with the history of Italy to a greater extent than in any other Western country. They are often presented as key variables in understanding Italy's past and present. Are these...