List of Abbreviations
Chronology of Italian Political Events, 2008
Compiled by Rinaldo Vignati
Introduction: Governing Fear
Gianfranco Baldini and Anna Cento Bull
Chapter 1. Chronicle of a Victory Foretold: The
13–14 April General Elections
Piergiorgio Corbetta
Chapter 2. Center Left, Radical Left,
Anti-Politics, and Center: Four Oppositions in Search of a
Comeback
James L. Newell
Chapter 3. Alemanno’s Surprising Victory in
Rome
Giovanni Di Franco
Chapter 4. The Only Man in Charge? The First
Eight Months of Berlusconi’s Fourth Government
Francesco Marangoni
Chapter 5. Russia’s Trojan Horse in Europe?
Italy and the War in Georgia
Maurizio Carbone
Chapter 6. Still Dying at Work: The New
Consolidation Act on Health and Safety in the Workplace
Elisabetta Gualmini
Chapter 7. Women in Institutions: Progress in
the Economic Sector, Stagnation in Politics?
Alessia Donà
Chapter 8. Mariastella Gelmini’s Education
Policy: Cuts without a Cultural Project
Giancarlo Gasperoni
Chapter 9. The Italian Health System: Cost
Containment, Mismanagement, and Politicization
Franca Maino
Chapter 10. A Story Foretold of a Toxic Mix in
Campania
Eleonora Pasotti
Chapter 11. The Northern League’s Victory:
Immigration and Citizenship in the Veneto Region
Jacqueline Andall
Chapter 12. The Privatization of Alitalia
Grant Amyot
Documentary Appendix
Compiled by Debora Mantovani
About the Editors and Authors
Gianfranco Baldini is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bologna, where he teaches Parties and Pressure Groups in the European Union and the European Political System. His recent publications include Elections, Electoral Systems and Volatile Voters, with A. Pappalardo (Palgrave 2009), and La Francia di Sarkozy, co-edited with Marc Lazar (Il Mulino, 2007).
“Governing Fear: Italian Politics 2008 is the twenty-forth volume of the essential guide for students of contemporary Italian affairs. As such, it more than lives up to the series’ tradition for concise and timely analysis. In its coverage of the year, it takes us through Berlusconi's electoral victory over a divided center left to show how the Lega Nord has been able to set the political agenda and how a former neo-Fascist leader became mayor of Rome. The book is more than just an analysis of headline events, however; it digs into the evolving fabric of Italian social life as well to show how the changing role of women, successive waves of educational and health reform, and simmering conflicts around Naples and Alitalia reflect profound underlying dynamics. Scholars will find this book an essential resource and interested readers, a rich buffet.” · Professor Erik Jones, Johns Hopkins Bologna Center
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