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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

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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

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