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The Italian Socialist Party (PSI) is central to any history of the crisis of Italy's post-war system of party democracy. The party seemed to be in its death throes during the mid-1970s, but under the new leadership of Bettino Craxi, elected in 1976, the party made a surprisingly successful political comeback. However, in the early 1990s, the party's success quickly evaporated. It became the face of the Tangentopoli scandals as many Socialist politicians, including Craxi, were convicted for corruption. The party even disbanded itself in 1994. This article traces the transformation of the Italian Socialists through the 1980s, looking at their ideology, organization and mode of representation. It connects these changes with the party's electoral fortunes, showing how they ultimately contributed to the party's demise, which had repercussions for Italy's party system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of a separatist movement following the Allied landing in Sicily, as well as the existence of an underground paramilitary group (the Esercito Volontario per l’Indipendenza della Sicilia), both contributed to the rise of a “Sicilian Question”, different from the more well-known “Southern Question”. The autonomism of political parties such as DC (Democrazia Cristiana, Christian Democracy) and PCI (Partito Comunista Italiano, the Italian Communist Party) in the transition to democracy (1943-1946) aimed to reabsorb the separatist protesters and other centrifugal forces, assimilating many of the contents and expectations that democracy, the Republic and antifascism itself adopted in the rest of the country. This would, in a uniquely peculiar manner, define Sicily’s regional political system, if only for a brief period of its history.

The last thirty years in Italy's political and institutional life have been uncommonly intense. Therefore, although no formal constitutional break has taken place, commentators have sub-divided the seventy-year history of the Republic into two periods: a so-called First Republic (1948–1994), and the Second Republic (1994–2018). Italy has seen a major shake-up of its material constitution and how it is applied on a day-to-day basis. However, the promise of a political and institutional formal change of the Italian Constitution in light of new challenges, remains unrealized. So these challenges are unresolved, even after seventy years of discussions. This article delves into the past and looks at the future prospects in the light of the political and material changes that have occurred over seventy-years of Italy's constitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Faced with the repression of Messali Hadj, some activists of the French Left, often in opposition to the directions of the PCF and the SFIO, gathered in a committee in 1954 to release the pioneer of Algerian nationalism. These activists (communists, anarchists, socialists, Trotskyists, etc.) were also involved in various groups: political (CLADO), union (PUMSUD) or intellectual (Arguments). Some agreed on the agenda of decolonization and others were more responsive to that of destalinization. By evoking these three initiatives supported by French outsiders, this article seeks to highlight what is at stake in transactions with other outsiders: the Messalists gradually marginalized by the FLN.

La rappresentazione cartografica del comportamento elettorale dell’Emilia Romagna può essere un utile strumento di analisi delle traiettorie dei partiti nel cruciale passaggio tra la prima e la seconda Repubblica. La mappatura interattiva, infatti, permette di leggere e comparare su scala comunale i risultati dei maggiori partiti che hanno partecipato alle cinque elezioni politiche tenutesi tra il 1976 e il 1992.

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