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The Nature of the Italian Party System
This study, first published in 1981, focuses on a single region of Italy Tuscany, and examines the internal and external relationships of the parties, their evolution and their roles in the years 1975-1980. Looking in depth and detail at the activity of the parties in Tuscany, the book identifies and examines different factors of change and continuity and comes to the conclusion that there has been significant movement in the political positions and strengths of the respective parties as well as in their strategic courses and inter-relationships.
This volume has a particular importance due to the questioning of many previously held assumptions of the countrys party system in the light of political and socio-economic change during the 1970s. This title will be of interest to students of European politics.
The Nature of the Italian Party System
A Regional Case Study
Geoffrey Pridham
First published in 1981
by Croom Helm Ltd
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1981 Geoffrey Pridham
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THE NATURE OF THE ITALIAN PARTY SYSTEM
A REGIONAL CASE STUDY
GEOFFREY PRIDHAM
1981 Geoffrey Pridham
Croom Helm Ltd, 2-10 St Johns Road, London SW11
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Pridham, Geoffrey
The nature of the Italian party system.
1. Italy Politics and government 1945
2. Political parties Italy
I. Title
329.945 JN5651
ISBN 0-85664-811-6
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Redwood Burn Limited
Trowbridge and Esher
CONTENTS
CL | Comunione e Liberazione (Catholic association) |
CGIL | Confederazione Generale Italiana dei Lavoratori (PCI-allied trade union organisation) |
CISL | Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori (Catholic trade union organisation) |
DC | Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democratic Party) |
FGCI | Italian Communist Youth Federation |
GIP | Gruppi di Impegno Politico (Groups of Political Involvement) DC organisation in the factories |
MILLE | Movement for a Free Italy in a Free Europe |
MSI | Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Neo-Fascist Party) |
PCdI | Partito Comunista dItalia (name of Communist Party before Mussolini) |
PCI | Partito Comunista Italiano (Italian Communist Party) |
PdUP | Partito di Unit Proletaria (Left-wing Communists) |
PLI | Partito Liberale Italiano (Italian Liberal Party) |
PPI | Partito Popolare Italiano (pre-Mussolini Catholic Party) |
PR | Partito Radicale (Italian Radicai Party) |
PRI | Partito Repubblicano Italiano (Italian Republican Party) |
PSDI | Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano (Italian Social Democratic Party) |
PSI | Partito Socialista Italiano (Italian Socialist Party) |
PSIUP | Partito Socialista Italiano di Unit Proletaria (Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity) |
PSU | Partito Socialista Unificato (name of the temporary merger between the PSI and PSDI in the later 1960s) |
UDI | Union of Italian Women (collateral organisation of the PCI) |
UIL | Unione Italiana del Lavoro (trade union association of the Centre-Left, including Socialists, Social Democrats and Republicans) |
REFERENCE GUIDE TO TUSCAN COMMUNES BY PROVINCE
Province of Massa-Carrara
Aulla 11
Bagnone 5
Carrara 15
Casola in Lunigiana 14
Cornano 8
Filattiera 4
Fivizzano 12
Fosdinovo 13
Licciana Nardi 9
Massa 16
Montignoso 17
Mulazzo 3
Podenzana 10
Pontremoli 2
Tresana 7
Villafranca in Lunigiana 6
Zeri 1
Province of Lucca
Altopascio 52
Bagni di Lucca 40
Barga 38
Borgo a Mozzano 41
Camaiore 44
Camporgiano 27
Capannori 49
Careggine 32
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana 31
Castiglione di Garfagnana 28
Coreglia Antelminelli 39
Fabbriche di Vallico 42
Forte dei Marmi 18
Fosciandora 30
Gallicano 37
Giuncugnano 22
Lucca 47
Massarosa 46
Minucciano 21
Molazzana 33
Montecarlo 51
Pescaglia 43
Piazza al Serchio 24
Pietrasanta 35
Pieve Fosciana 29
Porcari 50
San Romano in Garfagnana 25
Seravezza 19
Sillano 23
Stazzema 34
Vagli Sotto 20
Vergemoli 36
Viareggio 45
Villa Basilica 48
Villa Collemandina 26
Province of Pistoia
Abetone 74
Agliana 65
Buggiano 57
Chiesina Uzzanese 53
Cutigliano 73
Lamporecchio 63
Larciano 62
Marliana 70
Massa e Cozzile 58
Monsummano Terme 61
Montale 66
Montecatini Terme 59
Pescia 55
Pieve a Nievole 60
Pistoia 68
Piteglio 71
Ponte Buggianese 54