Italy : a contested polity / edited by Martin Bull and Martin Rhodes.

A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy / Martin Bull and Gianfranco Pasquino -- Government under Berlusconi : the functioning of the core institutions in Italy / Salvatore Vassallo -- Electoral change and its impact on the party system in Italy / Luciano Bardi -- The Italian centre-right and centre-left : between parties and "the party" / Ilvo Diamanti -- Italy's dysfunctional political economy / Marcello De Cecco -- Eppure, non si muove : legal change, institutional stability and Italian corporate governance / Pepper D. Culpepper -- Industrial relations and the welfare state in Italy : assessing the potential of negotiated change / Oscar Molina and Martin Rhodes -- Corruption and anti-corruption : the political defeat of "clean hands" in Italy / Donatella Della Porta and Alberto Vannucci -- Mafia and organised crime in Italy : the unacknowledged successes of law enforcement / Letizia Paoli -- Conflicts of interest and media pluralism in Italian broadcasting / Matthew Hibberd -- The domestic foundations of Italy's foreign and development policies / Maurizio Carbone -- Italian politics and the European Union : a tale of two research designs / Lucia Quaglia and Claudio M. Radaelli.