DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Master's Degree in Public Administration Sciences
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year

STORIA DELLO STATO E DELLE ISTITUZIONI POLITICHE ITALIANE

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• Political Republican System in Italy
  
  Objective of the module is the understanding of the dynamics of collapse, transition and consolidation of states, with particular reference to the Italian case. Specifically, it will be considered the political and institutional that characterize the transition from the fascist dictatorship to the democratic state: how the transition takes place? What elites passing from the old to the new regime? What is the role of the bureaucracy and administration in the transition? How do these events affect the future balance of the republican political system?
• Public intervention in the Italian Mezzogiorno
  
  Objective of the module is the reconstruction of the political roots and identity of the Italian State, through a reflection on the collapse of the teams pre-unification - and particularly the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies - and the complex vicissitudes of State and Nation building that characterize the period of unification. How and why the state collapses Bourbon? How do you implement the transition to that Italian? How the mode of institutional reconstruction affect the lives of the liberal state? And what affects the weight of the identity of the pre-unification and Southern Question?
• LE AUTONOMIE LOCALI: REGIONI PROVINCE E COMUNI NELLA STORIA D'ITALIA
  
  The purpose of the module is to transmit the main notions of italian history in the contemporary age, with a particular reference to the operation of the local ordinances. In the end of the lesson’s cycle the student will have to show it have assimilated and stabilized it’s fundamental skills in relation to the specific theme of the institutional processes.

Detailed Course Content

• Political Republican System in Italy
  

  The module will explore the elements of continuity and rupture between those of the fascist regime and democratic state, but will also address the main events that punctuate the life of the Italian Republic after World War II to the 70s. The collapse of the totalitarian apparatus, the democratic reconstruction, the rebirth of the parties and the events of the Constituent Assembly will be coupled to a reflection on the political system of the 50s and 60s.

• Public intervention in the Italian Mezzogiorno
  

  The module will deepen the crisis of the state Bourbon since the 50s of the nineteenth century and the attempts of modernization implemented by the monarchy in the period 1857-1860. Will be studied also the political, diplomatic and military characterizing the collapse of the state and governance of the measures implemented by the dictatorship of Garibaldi and the Lieutenancies Piedmont. Will be deepened, finally, the political and social context of the South at the turn of the two Kingdoms.

• LE AUTONOMIE LOCALI: REGIONI PROVINCE E COMUNI NELLA STORIA D'ITALIA
  

  The course is about the evolution of the local administrative bodies from the construction of the unitary State to the Republic. In particular will be studied the centralized system, the debate on the autonomies during the liberal age, the podesta’s system during the fascist regime, the institution of the Regions after ww II until the law 142 in 1990.

Textbook Information

• Political Republican System in Italy
  

  • G. Barone, Storia d’Italia. Dallo Stato liberale alla Repubblica, dispensa scaricabile dal portale http://studium.unict.it ;
  • P. Ginsborg, Storia d'Italia dal dopoguerra a oggi, Einaudi, Torino 2014 (capp. I-V).

• Public intervention in the Italian Mezzogiorno
  

  • S. A. Granata, Un Regno al tramonto. Lo Stato borbonico tra riforme e crisi (1858-181), Carocci, Roma 2015.