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Party and Democracy

The Uneven Road to Party Legitimacy

By: Piero Ignazi

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Party and Democracy

The Uneven Road to Party Legitimacy

By: Piero Ignazi

Party and Democracy questions why political parties today are held in such low estimation in advanced democracies. The first part of the volume reviews theoretical motivations behind the growing disdain for the political party. In surveying the parties' lengthy attempt to gain legitimacy, particular attention is devoted to the cultural and political conditions which led to their emergence on the ground' and then to their political and theoretical acceptance as the sole master in the chain of delegation. The second part traces the evolution of the party's organization and public confidence against the backdrop of the transition from industrial to post-industrial societies. The book suggests that, in the post-war period, parties shifted from a golden age of organizational development and positive reception by public opinion towards a more difficult relationship with society as it moved into post industrialism. Parties were unable to master societal change and thus moved towards the state to recover resources they were no longer able to extract from their constituencies. Parties have become richer and more powerful thanks to their interpenetration into the state, but they have paid' for their pervasive presence in society and the state with a declining legitimacy. Even if some changes have been introduced recently in party organizations to counteract their decline, they seem to have become ineffective; even worse, they have dampened democratic standing inside and outside parties, favouring plebiscitary tendencies. The party today is caught in a dramatic contradiction. It has become a sort of Leviathan with clay feet: very powerful thanks to the resources it gets from the state and to its control of the societal and state spheres, but very weak in terms of legitimacy and confidence in the eyes of the mass public. However, it is argued that there is still no alternative to the party. Democracy is still inextricably linked to the party system.

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Oxford University Press

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0192537601

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9780192537607

Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe

By: Piero Ignazi

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Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe

By: Piero Ignazi

This text explores the extreme right in order to assess its ideological meaning and political expression. Beginning with a discussion of the usefulness of the left-right distinction, it deals with the varied significance of the term 'right' and analyses the right's post-war evolution across Europe.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198293259

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Party and Democracy

The Uneven Road to Party Legitimacy

By: Piero Ignazi

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The Uneven Road to Party Legitimacy

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Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe

By: Piero Ignazi

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By: Piero Ignazi

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Italian Military Operations Abroad

Just Don't Call it War

By: P. Ignazi,G. Giacomello,F. Coticchia

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Italian Military Operations Abroad

Just Don't Call it War

By: P. Ignazi,G. Giacomello,F. Coticchia

Peace support operations are one of the most important tools in the foreign policy of Western democracies. This book is a study of Italian military operations in the last twenty years. Italy's operations are examined through an analysis of parliamentary debates and interviews with leading policy-makers.

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279

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Springer

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023036828X

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9780230368286

Italian Politics

The Year of the Tycoon

By: Richard S. Katz,Piero Ignazi

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Italian Politics

The Year of the Tycoon

By: Richard S. Katz,Piero Ignazi

Following the major upheavals of 1993, the Italian political system suffered intense aftershocks tied to the renewal of the political class in 1994. There were shattering changes in the party system?in particular the birth of Berlusconi's Forza Italia?and the first majoritarian parliament was established. In this latest edition of Italian Politics

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276

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Routledge

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0367316420

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9780367316426

Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

By: Christiansen, Keith

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Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

By: Christiansen, Keith

Prominent Renaissance scholars reveal new insights into Piero’s life and work based on a study of his exquisite small panel paintings.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0300199465

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9780300199468

Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

By: Carlo Bertelli

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Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

By: Carlo Bertelli

Includes a biography of the Italian painter, compares his work with that of other artists of his time, discusses his mathematic and geometric theories, and provides a complete catalog of his work

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240

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0300057032

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9780300057034

Piero Di Cosimo

Fiction, Invention, and Fantasìa

By: Sharon Fermor,Piero Di Cosimo

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Piero Di Cosimo

Fiction, Invention, and Fantasìa

By: Sharon Fermor,Piero Di Cosimo

This is the first book on Piero di Cosimo (1461 1521) widely considered one of the most intriguing figures of the Florentine Renaissance to be written in English for over fifty years. Sharon Fermor presents new solutions to questions the function and iconography that have puzzled commentators hitherto, and examines Piero's approach to pictorial composition and to gesture that contribute to the distinctiveness of his oeuvre. Of crucial importance in this fresh evaluation of Piero's career is the author's explanation of the strategies employed by Vasari for his Life of Piero, written in the mid sixteenth-century. By exposing the misconceptions many still influential today that resulted from Vasari's account, she reveals that even Piero's most unusual paintings on mythological themes are in fact coherent and meaningful compositions, and not the product of an isolated eccentric at odds with the artistic community of his time.

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330

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Reaktion Books

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0948462361

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9780948462368

Book's by Piero Ignazi

Party and Democracy

Party and Democracy

Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe

Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe

Party and Democracy

Party and Democracy

Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe

Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe

Italian Military Operations Abroad

Italian Military Operations Abroad

Italian Politics

Italian Politics

Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

Piero Di Cosimo

Piero Di Cosimo

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