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T1 Silvio Berlusconi's party of only children: the organizational model of Forza Italia
A1 Mariotti, Claudia
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto de Política y Gobernanza, 
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Ciencia Política y Sociología, 
AB Since it was founded in 1994, Silvio Berlusconi’s party, “Forza Italia”,turned over the traditional shape of the Italian political system. Its structuredoesn’t fit any of the classifications which have been created from the time ofDuverger on, except perhaps for Angelo Panebianco’s definition (1982) ofcharismatic party. The object of the paper is the parliamentary class of Forza Italia,which can be almost totally overlapped to the party class, differently from whathappened in mass ideological parties. This overlap has two main reasons: the gainfor the party in having its executives paid directly from public institutions, and above all – the degree of control that the party leader achieves, having the powerto choose the candidates and - as a result - a huge direct power on the partystructure itself, making party statutes actually uneffective. The research, conductedby interviewing 50 members of the Parliament of Forza Italia with the methods ofvignettes and open interviews, tries to explain the power relationships betweenparty executives, members of the Parliament and the leader.
SN 1698-482X
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/9260
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/9260
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 3 jul. 2024