The search for good government : understanding the paradox of Italian democracy /

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Sabetti argues that poor government performance in contemporary Italy has been an unintended consequence of attempts to craft institutions for good - or democratic - government. He shows that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, a chief problem in contemporary Italy is not the absence of the rule o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sabetti, Filippo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.
Series:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Subjects:
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Comparative Politics.
Politics and government
Politisches System
Politieke stelsels.
Democratie.
Italy > Politics and government.
Italie > Politique et gouvernement.
Italy
Italien
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Italian Politics: School for Good Government
  • Constitutional Knowledge and Alternative Constitutional Designs in the Making of Italy
  • The Creation of the Italian State
  • The Constitutional Design That Did Not Happen
  • How the System Worked in Republican Italy: Institutional Learning and Constraints
  • Expectations and Results in Public Service Delivery
  • Problem Solving by Central Planning
  • The War on Crime as a Fight for Good Government
  • The Mafia and the Antimafia
  • The Political Economy of Crime and Punishment
  • Why People Are Not Culturally or Path Dependently Doomed to Bad Government
  • The Search for the Real Montegrano
  • Path Dependence, Civic Culture, and Differential Government Performance
  • Good Government: The Elusive Dependent Variable.

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