Scholarly formulations of a political category

This article reflects on the reasons why clientelism has reached its status as a determining category in the scholarly interpretation of the Italian political system. By returning to the earliest formulations of the concept (in the controversies of the late nineteenth century on the widening of suffrage) and then its successive recreations up to the political crisis of the 1990s (as a typical manifestation of the political ‘anomalies’ of an ‘incomplete’ democracy), it relates this centrality to the uses made of the denunciation of clientelism in political and institutional struggles and the way political science has developed in Italy as an academic discipline

Clientelism · Democracy · Denunciation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy

• From the other shore

  Open Access•Alfio Mastropaolo•Modern Italy•2009

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• A crisis of legitimacy in Italy

  Open Access•J L Briquet, Jean‐louis Briquet•International Social Science…•2009

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• Interest Groups in Italian Politics

  Joseph Lapalombara, Joseph La Palombara•Interest Groups in Italian Politics•1964

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• The Rhetoric of Reaction

  Albert O Hirschman•Rhetoric of Reaction•1991

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• La théorie des élites aux États-Unis

  Mario Grynszpan, Marie Hautbergue•Genèses•1999

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• Politics and Society in Post-War Naples

  Leonard W Moss, P A Allum et al.•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1975

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• Politics and Society in Post-War Naples

  Open Access•Raphael Zariski•The Western Political Quarterly•1974

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• The Moral Basis of a Backward Society

  Edward C Banfield•Economica•1959

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• Moral Basis of a Backward Society

  Edward C Banfield•Moral Basis of a Backward Society•1967

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• The Development and Institutionalization of Political Science in Italy

  Open Access•Luigi Graziano•International Political Science…•1987

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• La Scienza Politica Italiana

  Open Access•Leonardo Morlino•Italian Political Science…•1991

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• Clientelismo Virtuoso

  Open Access•Simona Piattoni•Italian Political Science…•1998

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• The Italian Party System Between Crisis and Transition

  Sidney Tarrow•American Journal of Political…•1977

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• Left-Wing Trade Unionism

  Open Access•Joseph Lapalombara, Joseph G Lapalombara•The Western Political Quarterly•1954

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• Les difficultés du consociativisme

  Alessandro Pizzorno•Politix•1995

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• Interpretive approaches and the study of Italian politics

  Open Access•James L Newell•Modern Italy•2004

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