Frustrated Aspirations for Change
Frustrated Aspirations for Change Uncertainty about the future of the government and strong anti-political sentiment dominated Italian politics in 2007. Initial chapters in this volume analyse these…
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Frustrated Aspirations for Change
Uncertainty about the future of the government and strong anti-political sentiment dominated Italian politics in 2007. Initial chapters in this volume analyse these events as well as some important initiatives aimed, in different ways, at containing public disaffection towards the political class: the establishment of the Democratic Party, the electoral referendum campaign, and Silvio Berlusconi's announcement of the birth of a new, center-right political party. Following a government crisis in February, rooted in the question of Italy's role in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Romano Prodi was able to re-establish his coalition, but in the spring it suffered a clear setback in local elections amidst a climate of growing unpopularity.
As demonstrated in following chapters, the government did still manage to achieve a degree of success during the year in combating tax evasion and reducing the