Description
Book SynopsisA gripping account of modern Italian politics that gets inside the Berlusconi phenomenon.
Trade Review'I know of no book at the moment in English dedicated with such focus and depth on Berlusconi's politics' -- Gino Bedani, Research Professor in Italian, University of Swansea
'Describes a new postmodern paradigm opening up in the Berlusconi era' -- Reference & Research Book News
'Unusually penetrating insights into the nature of the 'Berlusconi phenomenon' ... Beautifully written' -- Jim Newell, Reader in Politics, University of Salford
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements
Map of Italy
Introduction: Not a Normal Country
Section One: Berlusconi and Friends
1. From Salesman to Statesman: The Postmodern Populism of Silvio Berlusconi
2. History Matters: The Battle for the Memory of Monte Sole
3. Bossi’s Last Shout
Section Two: The Remaking of Politics
4. The Failure of the Italian Third Way and the Return of Ideology
5. Italy’s New Opposition
6. The South Strikes Back
Section Three: Another Italy?
7. Civic Renaissance in Sicily
8. Slow Food in the Fast Lane
9. From Postmodern Populism to Postmodern Politics?
Notes
Index
