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Book SynopsisThe year 2010 marked the halfway point for Silvio Berlusconi's fourth government with the solidity of its electoral mandate threatened on a number of occasions by strong clashes with the opposition, ultimately leading to a "divorce" from Gianfranco Fini.
Table of Contents Chronology of Italian Political Events, 2010
compiled by R. Vignati
Introduction: Much ado about nothing?
E. Gualmini and E. Pasotti
Chapter 1. Another Divorce: the PdL in 2010
D. Hine and D. Vampa
Chapter 2. Condemned to ineffectiveness? PD and IdV between parliamentary opposition and coalition strategies
S. Braghiroli and L. Verzichelli
Chapter 3. The third pole: an annus mirabilis?
C. Baccetti
Chapter 4. Between the center and the periphery. The regional elections and the difficult path towards fiscal federalism
B. Baldi and F. Tronconi
Chapter 5. The financial route to education reform
G. Capano
Chapter 6. Justice reforms? Phone tapping, legitimate impediment, short trials
P. Pederzoli
Chapter 7. Civil Protection Amid Disasters and Scandals
D. Alexander
Chapter 8. FIAT Restructuring and the Pomigliano Case: towards a New Era in Italian Industrial Relations?
M. Simoni
Chapter 9. The Rosarno Revolt: towards political mobilization for immigrants?
C. Devitt
Chapter 10. And yet it moves. The uneasy progress towards high speed trains and railway liberalization
M. Tebaldi
Documentary appendix
compiled by V. Sartori
