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Democracy in Poland: representation, participation, competition and accountability since 1989

interests (part VII) and various aspects of Italian society (part VIII). While some of the chapters in these two parts are among the most interesting and well-written in this handbook, the grouping of the topics is confusing. Next to chapters dedicated to public policies, the reader finds others about interest groups or political institutions; chapters on some endemic plagues of the Italian social (and political) life, such as corruption or criminal organisations, are mingled with others about movements, immigration, women in politics, press and cinema. The last part (IX) tackles the external relations of Italy and is divided into three chapters according to the main areas of interest of Italian foreign policy (Atlantic Alliance, Europe and Mediterranean countries). After reading such a great collection of contributions it is very difficult to formulate an overall evaluation. As a scholar interested in Italian politics, I am grateful to the editors for their attempt to address in detail so many aspects of it. Nevertheless, a general drawback negatively affects even those chapters and authors I found most convincing. It is fragmentation, ironically one of the drawbacks that also characterises the Italian political system. The chapters are too numerous and too short. On the one hand, given the large number of contributions, the same facts are often repeated from one chapter to another and coordination among contributions is not always satisfactory; on the other hand, the authors often only have the space to write short historical accounts. Even when the topics have triggered lively political and scientific debates or an abundant scholarly production, readers will not find summaries of the different positions in the literature or comparisons with other countries that could help them to better grasp the peculiarity of the Italian case. It is a pity in an editorial effort that is, nevertheless, highly commendable.