Table of Contents

Party Acronyms used in the Text Chronology of Italian Political Events, 1998

Introduction: One Step towards Europe, Two Steps back from Institutional Reform David Hine and Salvatore Vassallo

Chapter 1. The Two Lefts: Between Rupture and Recomposition Oreste Massari and Simon Parker Chapter 2. The Parties of the Polo: United to What End? Marco Tarchi and Emanuela Poli Chapter 3. Re-assembling the Centre and the Electoral Spectrum Renato Mannheimer and Giacomo Sani Chapter 4. A Postmortem of the Bicamerale Gianfranco Pasquino Chapter 5. From the Prodi Government to the D'Alema Government: Continuity or Discontinuity? Sergio Fabbrini Chapter 6. The Bassanini Laws: A Half-Way House in Local Government Reform Mark Gilbert Chapter 7. Changes to the Italian Budgetary Regime: The Reforms of Law no. 94/1997 David Felsen Chapter 8. Drafting the 1998 Legislation on Immigration: A Test of Government Cohesion David Hine Chapter 9. Finance between Market and Politics Giacomo Vaciago Chapter 10. Malpensa 2000 David Hine

Documentary Appendix Compiled by Marzia Zannini

About the Editors and Contributors Index

About the Author

David Hine is Fellow and Senior Censor at Christ Church College, Oxford.