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The Referendum and the Transformation of the Party System∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2016

Mark Donovan
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Wholesale party system transformation is exceedingly rare. Indeed, in taking place within a broadly democratic framework and independently of constitutional change Italy's experience is probably unique. This paper argues that the referendums of 1991 and 1993, and the mobilization of the electorate from early 1990 associated with them, played a significant and not always well understood role in the transformation of the Italian party system.

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Modern Italy , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , 1995 , pp. 53 - 69
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Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

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