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Italian Politics and the Cattaneo Institute

Italy has long fascinated political scientists, in the past for a number of specific problems of its political system—government instability, a powerful but ineffective parliament, endemic political conflict, a polarised multiparty system, and the presence of the strongest communist party in Western Europe—and later for providing a rare case of peaceful transition to a different democracy. As a result, throughout the postwar era the study of the country’s politics has attracted a considerable number of foreign scholars, building up a significant international community of specialists on Italian politics. Meanwhile, the specific problems of the country’s political system have been at the centre of much empirical research. The largest collaborative research project during the first forty years of the Italian Republic was carried out in the 1960s by the Istituto Cattaneo, a private research