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After the Historic Compromise: A Turning Point for the PCI *
Author(s) -
BARBAGLI MARZIO,
CORBETTA PIERGIORGIO
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1982.tb00019.x
Subject(s) - compromise , democracy , opposition (politics) , conventional pci , turning point , schema (genetic algorithms) , politics , political science , political economy , sociology , law , computer science , psychology , philosophy , period (music) , machine learning , psychiatry , myocardial infarction , aesthetics
Since the beginning of the 1970s many scholars have predicted that the Italy of ‘centrifugal democracy’ would in the course of a few years become a ‘consociational democracy’. The return of the PCI to opposition in early 1979 and the ‘political turning’ decided by the party leadership in 1980 have disproved this prediction. This article maintains that a most important source of error in this prediction is to be found in the simplistic schema advanced to analyse the behaviour of the PCI. On the basis of data drawn from three surveys, the article examines the relations between members, militants, and leaders of the PCI from 1977 to the end of 1980.