Party organisational change in Italy (1991-2006)
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Modern Italy, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 197-217
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IGNAZI, Piero, BARDI, Luciano, MASSARI, Oreste, Party organisational change in Italy (1991-2006), Modern Italy, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 197-217, [EUDO] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/40026
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This article analyses, adopting the well-known approach of Katz and Mair, the issue of organizational change within Italian political parties since 1990. In addition to an account of trends in membership, local units, finances, staff, and of changes in party statutes, the article aims at testing the widespread view in the literature that organizational resources–hence power–are becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of party and/or parliamentary leaders, and correspondingly that the territorial presence of parties is declining. The analysis of the change over time of Katz and Mair's party organisational ‘faces’ leads to the confirmation, to a large extent, of the overall hypothesis of a decline of the party at ground level, and a concentration of party resources in the central office, and above all in the party in public office.