Berlusconi's Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics

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Index abstentions, 34, 110 AC Milan, 1, 24 agency, 30 alternation in government, 16, 32 anti-Communism, 11, 72, 75, 91, 135 anti-Fascism, 88 Bartolini, Stefano, 33 Basilicata, 35, 40 Berlusconi, Silvio: rise to power, 1–2; and his television stations, 10, 92, 112; conflicts of interest, 10, 49, 104–105; and “Berlusconism”, 24, 134–136; and Bossi (Northern Axis), 67, 93, 131; and leadership, 75, 104, 112, legal problems, 85, 124; in defeat, 121; and the Berlusconi effect, 121, 122 big-government conservatism, 13 bipartyism, 6 bipolarism (institutional), 4, 6, 126, 137 bipolarity, 3–4, 15–16, 123, 124, 126; geography of, 33; competitive, 34 bivariate LISA, 60, 90; and types of spatiotemporal correlation, 61–62. See also LocalIndicator of Spatial Association Blair,Tony, 104 blue zone (zona azzurra), 39, 43, 96 Bossi, Umberto, 4, 42, 49, 85, 100, 107 Bush,George W., 11, 13 Buttiglione, Rocco, 148 Calabria, 40 Casini, Pier Ferdinando, 114, 124, 133 Catholic Church, 24, 148 Center (central Italy), 35, 44, 58, 88, 127 center-left, 112. See also Olive Tree chequebook democracy, 135 Christian Democratic Center/United Christian Democrats (CCD/CDU), 101, 119. See also Union of Christian Democrats (UDC) Christian Democrats (DC), 3, 7, 27, 38, 48, 55, 79; replacement by FI, 47, 79; replacement by LN, 62–63 Ciampi, Carlo Azeglio, 108 city-regions, 3 civil society, 13, 141 clientelism, 8. See also patronage cold war, 48, 67, 68 colonization, See party replacement Como, 8 consumerism, 42, 69 context, 8, 28–31, 98. See also place; place configurations contextual effects, 125 Contract with Italians, 91, 105, 142 corruption, 85 Cossiga, Francesco, 133 Craxi, Bettino, 23, 49, 67, 68, 71, 78, 97, 134, 144–145 D’Alema, Massimo, 87, 91, 106 Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), and replacement of PCI, 47, 48, 59, 89. See also Democrats of the Left (DS) Democrats of the Left (DS), 25. See also Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) deterritorialization, 28, 44 devaluation of geography, 17 devolution, 20, 67, 93, 99, 103, 105, 124. See also Northern League Di Pietro,Antonio, 85 Diamanti, Ilvo, 25, 84 diffusion, 55 Durkheim, Emile, 18 Duverger’s Law, 32 ecological analysis, 9 economy, 5–6, 99, 101, 102, 124, 129 election campaigns: adversarial, 4–5, 23, 111, 121; of 2006, 109–112 electoral change, 10, 47–51, 59 electoral coalitions (alliances), 9, 33, 36; center-right (House of Freedoms), 20, 43–44, 70–71, 72, 97, 100, 114; center-left (Olive Tree, Ulivo), 42, 87, 92; role of Berlusconi in building, 65–67, 77, 92, 101; in 1994 election 74–76 electoral geography: of Italy 6–11, 26–27; of Italian South, 19; of DC replacement by FI, 79; of MSI by AN, 81; of PCI by new Italian left, 89; of majoritarian vote, 95; of 2006 election, 112–120 electoral mobility, 31 electoral swing, 7, 16, 49–50 electoral system: old, 3; 1993, 3–4, 32, 65; 2005 reform, 4, 109, 113; consequences of, 4 electoral volatility, 34, 95 Emilia-Romagna, 42 European elections: of 1999, 87; of 2004, 106–108 European Union: single currency, Eurozone 5, 99, 101, 102, 105, 124; presiding over, 105 Fini,Gianfranco, 49, 68, 72, 86, 100, 107–108, 124, 133, 134 Fininvest, 71, 72, 74, 97 Follini, Marco, 107–108, 109, 119, 132–133 followership: versus leadership, 2–6; uneven geography of, 123, 126–131 Forza Italia (FI):origins,1–2,70–75; supporters (gli azzurri),1,12;success of, 23–24,46,49;geography of support for,27,39,43,replacement of DC,47, 78–80;strongholds,107,2006 performance,114–117; intra-coalitional vote share,115–116; Foucault, Michel, 16–17 Friuli, 35 Garibaldi,Giuseppe, 105 geographic variation (spatial heterogeneity), 55 Gingrich, Newt, 91 Ginsborg, Paul, 24 Gould, Peter, 54 government spending, 13 Great Britain: political parties in, 50, 86 Hacking, Ian, 29 Hegel,G.W.F., 18 House of Freedoms, 21, 36, 99–102, 122; in sub-national elections, 106–108; 166 I N D E X in European elections of 2004, 107–108. See also Pole of Freedoms Hussein, Saddam, 104 income-tax evasion, 8, 138 industrial districts, 40, 42 information networks, 56 instrumentalism, 11–13, 135 Iraq, 100, 102, 104 Italian Communist Party (PCI), 3, 24, 27, 48, 55, 89; reconfiguration of, 48, 67; replacement by PDS, 62–63, 89 Italian left, 3 Italian national elections: of 1994, 74–78; of 1996...