ISBN10: 1845457838, ISBN13: 9781845457839, [publisher: Berghahn Books] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. In 2008, Silvio Berlusconi returned to power - thanks to a decisive electoral victory - to head a slimmer coalition whose cabinet consisted of members very close to him. The year began with the garbage crisis in Naples and ended in a climate dominated by economic uncertainty.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2010]

ISBN10: 1845457838, ISBN13: 9781845457839, [publisher: Berghahn Books, Oxford] Softcover Paperback. In 2008, Silvio Berlusconi returned to power thanks to a decisive electoral victory to head a slimmer coalition whose cabinet consisted of members very close to him. The year began with the garbage crisis in Naples and ended in a climate dominated by economic uncertainty. In between some unexpected events happened: during the administrative elections, held with the general elections in April, the right in Rome claimed many victories; for the first time ever, a woman, Emma Marcegaglia, was elected President of Confindustria; and the Alitalia airline had to be rescued from the brink of economic collapse. For consecutive months, opinion polls gave Berlusconi an unprecedented level of popular support; those polled attributed their approval to either his decisionism or to what they viewed as a successful strategy of continual announcements. Others pointed to the executives success in governing the fears of Italians, which was helped by a change of register in the way the media dealt with issues of security. This volume shows that the politics of vetoes, which characterised the previous center-left government, could not conceal the structural, economic and social problems that still need to be resolved, a situation not helped by the fact that the opposition parties were still unable to develop an effective political strategy by yearend. With the contribution of Italian and ...