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The PDS, the Progressive Alliance and the Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2016

Martin J. Bull
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From the perspective of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the left generally, the 1989-1994 period can be viewed as a political failure in as far as there was a right-wing outcome (albeit ephemeral) to Italy's transition. Yet, it is a failure which has to be viewed in the context of the deep undercurrents of change at work in Italy in this period and the constraints within which the PDS and its leader, Achille Occhetto, were operating

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Research Article
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Modern Italy , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , 1995 , pp. 30 - 39
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Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

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References

1 See Ignazi, Piero, Dal PCI al PDs, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1992, and Italian Politics. A Review, Vols 6–7, Pinter, London, 1992–3.Google Scholar

2 See Bull, Martin J. and Newell, James L., ‘Italian Politics and the 1992 Elections: From “Stable Instability” to Instability and Change’, Parliamentary Affairs, pp. 206–15, 46, 2, April 1993.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 See Katz, Richard S., ‘Le trasformazioni del sistema elettorale‘, in Mershon, Carol and Pasquino, Gianfranco (eds), Politico in Italia. I fatti dell'anno e le interpretazioni. Edizione '94, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1994.Google Scholar

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5 See L'Unità and La Repubblica , 26 March 1993.Google Scholar

6 Bull, Martin J., ‘Social Democracy's Newest Recruit? Conflict and Cohesion in the Italian Democratic Party of the Left’, in Bell, David and Shaw, Eric (eds), Conflict and Cohesion in Contemporary Social Democracy, Pinter, London, 1994.Google Scholar

7 Salvati, , The Travail of Italian Communism’, p. 122.Google Scholar

8 Quoted in La Repubblica, 4 November 1993.Google Scholar

9 See Rhodes, Martin, ‘Reinventing the Left: The Origins of Italy's Progressive Alliance’, in Mershon, Carol and Pasquino, Gianfranco (eds), Italian Politics. A Review, vol. 9, Pinter, London, 1994.Google Scholar

10 See L'Unità, 1 February 1994.Google Scholar

11 In fact, the share of seats the PDS gained in the Chamber of Deputies was only 18.25 per cent.Google Scholar

12 For an account of the leadership succession see Bull, Martin J., ‘Il fallimento dell'Alleanza progressista’, in Ignazi, Piero e Katz, Richard S. (eds), Politica in Italia. I fatti dell'anno e le interpretazioni. Edizione '95, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1995.Google Scholar

13 See Bull, , ‘Il fallimento dell'Alleanza progressista’, pp. 111–114.Google Scholar