Alcide De Gasperi and the problem of reconstruction

Starting with a quick overview of the historiography of Italy from Fascism to the Republic, this article looks at Alcide De Gasperi\u2019s establishment as a leader within both the Italian political system and within his Party \u2013 the Christian Democrats \u2013 casting new light on three aspects of his political activity: (1) his relationship with the Church and the Catholics\u2019 new modes of participation in political life; (2) the reasons inspiring the definition of the Republican State\u2019s institutional architecture; and (3) alliance strategy in government formation and in relationships with the other parties. The originality of De Gasperi\u2019s political activity can be defined in terms of these issues, together with the development of a distinctive political leadership, for too long overlooked, that would play a critical role in carrying Italy through its postwar reconstruction

Testimoni della storia: il centro sinistra quarant\u2019anni dopo

Our editorial board reconstructs the events that brought to the beginning of the first Centre-Left Government, in the December 1963. The participation to the discussion of protagonists of that period let us analyze problems that led to a change in the parliamentary balances. First of all, the relationship between Christian Democracy and Church, closing of which against Left Parties represented an ideological and cultural obstacle hard to overcome. Then, the necessity for the Socialist Party to break every link with the Pci and to seek for an own independent way to join the "buttons' room", to revise the grounds of its own ideology. Finally, the necessity to face the important changes that over-turned Italian society of those years, changes to which young intellectuals and university students were particularly susceptible. The Centre-Left started, therefore, as a consequence of a series of events, about internal and international policy, engraved inevitably also on the Italian policy, modifying its characteristics

Democrazia cristiana e mondo cattolico negli anni Ottanta

Nel quadro di una analisi, volta a ricostruire il processo di crisi e di delegittimazione dei partiti nella stagione repubblicana, il contributo si propone di affrontare la complessa evoluzione del rapporto tra Democrazia cristiana e mondo cattolico nel corso degli anni Ottanta. In questa prospettiva l'indagine sulle dinamiche interne al partito si interseca con le trasformazioni e le evoluzioni che avrebbero interessato il mondo cattolico e la Santa Sede al fine di valutare quanto la delega politica a lungo concessa alla Democrazia cristiana venisse messa in discussione dall'emergere di una crisi politica e valoriale che investiva il sistema politico e la societ\ue0 civile

La storiografia del giorno dopo: il dibattito sulla crisi della Democrazia Cristiana negli anni Novanta

In this review article we try to analize the storiographic debate about political crisis in the Christian Democracy party in the last ten years. Contributions considered follow two interpretative directions. In one hand politological approach estimates this crisis as a general transformation both sor whole political system than institutional one; in the other hand, hinstorical approach try to estimate which kind of change in or out this party, or which original elements have wore away both its identity than its functions