EUT119: State Crisis: Changing Governance in Italy

School null
Department Code null
Module Code EUT119
External Subject Code L243
Number of Credits 15
Level L7
Language of Delivery English
Module Leader Dr Mark Donovan
Semester Spring Semester
Academic Year 2013/4

Outline Description of Module

To provide an opportunity for students to develop knowledge, understanding, analytical skills and research skills relevant to key issues in contemporary governance by the study of changing modes of governance in Italy before and after the state crisis of the early 1990s.

On completion of the module a student should be able to

 On completion of the module a student should be able to:

  • demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key features of the Italian modes of governance c. 1948-92 and c. 1994 to the present
  • critically evaluate the causes, advantages and disadvantages of both modes of governance
  • demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the nature, causes and consequences of the new mode of governance
  • critically evaluate the challenges and opportunities presented to Italy’s elites by current circumstances

How the module will be delivered

 Teaching is by seminars and essay feedback; learning is via seminar participation, seminar preparation, feedback essay preparation and writing and critical response to that feedback; exam preparation and involvement in the European Governance, Identity and Public Policy (EGIPP) research unit.

How the module will be assessed

 Formative assessment:   Feedback essay of <1,500 words to be completed by the end of week 8.

Summative assessment:Essay of <3,000 words.

Assessment Breakdown

Type % Title Duration(hrs)
Written Assessment 100 Coursework N/A

Syllabus content

Overview of the political system, its key actors, institutions and modes of governance before and after 1994; the bases of legitimacy of the main parties of the so-called ‘First Republic’, the nature of the party system, and the consequent nature of governance; the bases of legitimacy of the main parties in the new party system – the so-called “Second Republic”; the nature of the new party system and its actors, and the extent to which a new mode of governance has been able to embed itself.

Essential Reading and Resource List

 

M. Cotta and L. Verzichelli, Political Institutions in Italy, 2007

Indicative reading list

Bull, M.J. & M. Rhodes (eds) special issue of West European Politics, 1997

Bull, M.J. & M. Rhodes (eds) special issue of West European Politics, 2007

Donovan, M. & J.L.Newell (eds) special issue of Modern Italy, November 2008

Donovan, M. (2012). Italy History, Western Europe 2012, Europea Press (overview of political history c. 1943-2011 aval. via LC)

Fabbrini, S. & S. Piattoni (2007). Italy in the European Union, 2007

Furlong, P. Modern Italy. Representation and Reform, 1994

Hine, D. Governing Italy. Politics of Bargained Pluralism, Oxford, 1993

Newell, J. Parties and Democracy in Italy, 2000 (NB contains useful Glossary of parties and movements)

Newell, J. (2010). The Politics of Italy, CUP

Newell, J.L. & C. Paolucci (eds) special issue of Modern Italy, August 2008


Copyright Cardiff University. Registered charity no. 1136855