Open AccessParty-Political System Transformation in Italy
Author(s) -
Елена Маслова,
Ekaterina Shebalina
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
sovremennaâ evropa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.223
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 0201-7083
DOI - 10.15211/soveurope22021111123
Subject(s) - politics , political system , political science , political culture , political economy , ideology , the republic , state (computer science) , sociology , law , democracy , philosophy , theology , algorithm , computer science
Throughout the years of the existence of the Italian Republic, the country's political system has been characterized by both periods of stability and turbulence. The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of the Italian party-political system and political landscape, macrotendencies of Italian politics from the First Republic (1948) to the present. The research highlights the main features of each period. The authors reflect on the possible emergence of the Third Republic in Italy. The study is relevant in view of the growing government crisis in the Italian Republic, aggravated by the epidemiological situation. Among the main trends that characterize the modern political system, the authors underline increasing heterogeneity, the emergence of coalitions that are formed not in accordance with political programs and political values, but with the political situation based on the principle “here and now”; tendency towards personification of parties, and increasing fragmentation of political spectrum. This gives a ground to deliberate on a possible existence in Italy of “liquid politics” (politica liquida) as a state of continuous political system “melting and overflowing” in the absence of a clear ideological delimitation ‒ one of the stages at which a new political reality is being constructed.