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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. The Political Party System

Author: Robert Leonardi

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK

Published in: Government and Politics of Italy

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Abstract

The Italian political party system has undergone a significant change since it emerged from the ashes of Fascism in 1943 and began to operate within a representative parliamentary democracy in 1948. As was discussed in the previous chapter in reference to the electoral rules in existence from 1946 onward, the underlining characteristic of the political party system has been its competitiveness. Election campaigns have been hard fought, but they have always remained within the confines of the rules for the existence of the freedom to organize political parties of different ideological tendencies and to engage in free and fair elections.

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Title

The Political Party System

Book

Government and Politics of Italy

Print ISBN: 978-0-333-41582-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-349-93231-3

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-93231-3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-93231-3_7

Author:

Robert Leonardi

Publisher

Macmillan Education UK

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