Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-04T17:56:16.816Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Stabilising Europe 1918–1945–1989: Three Post-War Eras in Comparison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Conference Report
Information
Contemporary European History , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , November 1995 , pp. 393 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 There is an interesting parallel with Italy here. When Giolitti returned to power in June 1920 he placed a series of Draconian tax measures on the statute book (mostly directed at business and the middle classes), designed to eliminate the Italian budgetary deficit. Both he and his successors proved unable to find the political will to implement these, however, and it was only when Mussolini gained power following a virtual taxpayers’ revolt in 1922 that the deficit was attacked via an assault on government expenditure, including large cutbacks in the railway administration.

2 The existence of this convention was hotly disputed by Furlong and Paolo Pombeni (Bologna), the latter maintaining it was simply a myth developed by the Left to avoid confronting the fact that Italy had an essentially right-ring electorate. As will be appreciated, in constructing the myth of the state, the existence of such a convention is of less importance than the belief in it.1