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Post- 1994 Italian politics and Berlusconism in continuity with the republican history (1948-1992)A CURA DI:ARIANNA DOTTORI, ELEONORA LA POSTA E ANNA LISA PANTUSA
OUTLINE
• Connecting the two
Republics: political common features1
• Is Berlusconism
a new political brand?
2• Berlusconi
takes the field: compromise or conflict?
• AN: not yet
3
Connecting the two Republics: political common features
BERLUSCONISM
The «same old story»
Berlusconi’s counts
Political and social structural cleavages
North-South
Conservatism
Interistitutional dynamics
Party system renewed
Laws issued
FIRST REPUBLIC
«mani pulite» («clean hands»)
Center-periphery
Lay/catholic issue
Proportional logics
Laws issued
Is Berlusconism a new political brand?
BERLUSCONISM
Spectacularization and personalization of politics
The “platonic” question and insensibility to institutional reforms
New man?
FIRST REPUBLIC
Political debate brought on TV. Leaders fight in first person in the political arena
Identification of the best kind of leadership = Partito degli Eletti. Reforms as secondary issue
Professional politicians
Berlusconi takes the field: compromise or conflict?
Anticommunism out of the game?
The imperfect bipartitism/bipolarism
Filling the electoral vacuum
Cold War scenario: the red threat invoked during the First Republic
Berlusconi: communism in over, not yet the communists
The First Republic: DC-PCI but conventio ad excludendum
Berlusconism: Ipopolitics-Iperpolitics and the mutual delegitimation process
The DC gathering the disappointed right wing supporters
Berlusconi occupies the empty space left by the partitocrazia
AN: not yet
The Fiuggi documents: an ambiguous relation with the past
New party, old values: nation, spirituality, public order, liberty and authority
Institutional redesign through presidentialism
The Adriatic policy: for the «Italianness» of Istria and Dalmatia