CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE GROUP ON ITALIAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY (CONGRIPS), 107TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN POLTIICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (APSA), SAN FRANCISCO, 1-4 SEPTEMBER 2011
In order to mark the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, papers are invited which seek to throw light on the significance of Unification itself for an understanding of the nature [...]
Italian presidents play a generally low-profile, but crucially important, role in the country’s political system, responsible as they are for mediating and regulating with the aim of ensuring that political processes are carried on without threatening national integration. This importance appears to be reflected in the results of surveys which regularly show much higher levels [...]