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 from the Unification to the second pistwar periodo, with particular relevance about the public intervention on the Southern Italy to reduct the gap between two different parte of the Country.
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.
1. S. A. Granata, Un Regno al tramonto. Lo Stato borbonico tra riforme e crisi (1858-1861), Carocci, Roma 2015. 2. Mezzogiorno/mezzogiorni. Il Sud d'Italia dall'unificazione ai patti territoriali, dispensa a cura del docente disponibile su Studium.it
G. Astuto, Storia delle istituzioni politiche. Da Cavour a Renzi, Carocci, Roma (in corso di stampa). Nel corso delle lezioni il docente indicherà le parti da studiare.
P. Aimo, Stato e poteri locali in Italia dal 1848 a oggi, Carocci, Roma 2010.