| Abstrakt: |
This article deals with the transformations of the Italian political system from immediately after the Second World War till today. The crisis of the political par- ties, those on which Italian Republic was founded, is presented as the outcome of a slow but gradual crisis of the mediation and regulation of the micro and macro conflicts that result from accelerated social changes starting from the Sixties. The international events of 1989 and the juridical events of the early 1990S (Tangen-topoli) have acted as accelerators for this crisis of managing these changes. The main part of the work deals with the modality in which the 'molecular' change of the Italian society is produced and with the adaptive attempts with which the presence of political parties and civil society groups is developed. As the attraction and cohesive force of the great religious and ideological narratives has passed, political participation is produced in a fragmented and intermittent form between the need for certainties and a reduction in expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
