Italian politics : the end of the Berlusconi era? / edited by Grant Amyot and Luca Verzichelli.

"A publication of the Istituto Cattaneo."

Chronology of Italian political events, 2005 / edited by Debora Mantovani -- Introduction : end-of-term anxieties and improvisation / Grant Amyot and Luca Verzichelli -- The regional elections : winning too convincingly? / Salvatore Vassallo -- From federation to union, from parties to primaries : the search for unity in the center-left / Jonathan Hopkin -- Italy and world affairs : the Sgrena-Calipari case / Marco Clementi -- Games advanced democracies play : the coalition crisis of April 2005 / David Hine and Chris Hanretty -- From resource to constraint? Italy and the stability and growth pact / Vincent Della Sala -- The bank takeover bids and the role of the Bank of Italy / Marcello Messori -- The referendum on artificial insemination / Chiara Martini -- The Italian church in the year of the papal succession / Alberto Melloni -- The government's educational reforms : blunted arrows, wrong targets? / Giancarlo Gasperoni -- Mortal risks? The problem of Italy's international competitiveness / Grant Amyot and Francesco Marangoni -- Documentary appendix / Deborah Mantovani.