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Italy: Between Bureaucratic Power and Democratic Legitimacy

For more than a year, Italy has had a stable Center-Right government, with two new characteristics: 1) a large political majority (almost 60% in Parliament and over 55% in the Senate); and 2) the inclusion in the governing coalition of the party once nostalgic for fascism, which had resulted in its ostracism by the republican regime from 1946 to 1994. In order to understand these radically new developments and what the Berlusconi government proposes, it is necessary to retrace the crisis of the old Italian "regime of parties" and of the constitutional predicament.

To explain the crisis and the rapid...