- Docente: Alessandro Giacone
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SPS/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Political, Social and International Sciences (cod. 8853)
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from Sep 19, 2022 to Dec 14, 2022
Learning outcomes
After following this seminary, students will know the main stages of Italy’s political history from 1946 onwards ; they will understand how the Constitution influences the functioning of Italian institutions. Moreover, students will be able to identify the political and institutional transformations of the republican period. Having studied the links between foreign policy and domestic policy, students will be able to replace Italy’s political issues in a larger context, both European and international.
Course contents
Through the study of the presidency of Council, students will examine the various phases of history of Republican Italy. This seminary begins with the transition between Monarchy and Republic. We will then study the history of the Italian governments between 1946 and 2022, focusing on the various political phases (centrism, center-left, national solidarity, pentapartite, coalitions of center-right and center-left etc.) and on the personalities in charge of the Council's presidency.
Readings/Bibliography
Compulsory Readings
The reference book is the monumental Sabino Cassese, Alberto Melloni, Alessandro Pajno (edited by), I presidenti e la presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri nell’Italia repubblicana. Storia, politica, istituzioni (tomo primo), Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2022. The reading is compulsory only for non-attending students.
For attending students, the compulsory reading will be the book edited by Giovanni Orsina and Maurizio Ridolfi, La Repubblica del presidente, Istituzioni, pedagogia civile e cittadini nelle trasformazioni delle democrazie, Roma, Viella, 2022.
Readings for the oral exam
Students (attending and non-attending) will choose one book among the following list:
1. Giulio Andreotti, Governare con la crisi, dal 1944 a oggi, Milano, Rizzoli, 1991.
2. Piero Craveri, De Gasperi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006 (pp. 235-637)
3. Mario Scelba, Per l’Italia e per l’Europa, Roma, Edizioni Cinque Lune, 1990.
4, Gabriella Fanello Marcucci, Scelba, Milano, Mondadori, 2006.
5, Antonio Segni, Diario (1956-1964), a cura di Salvatore Mura, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.
6. Salvatore Mura, Antonio Segni, La politica e le istituzioni, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017 (pp. 227-420)
7. Mimmo Franzinelli, Alessandro Giacone, 1960: L’Italia sull’orlo della guerra civile, Milano, Mondadori, 2020.
8. Amintore Fanfani, Diari, volume IV (1960-1963), Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012.
9. Amintore Fanfani, Centro-sinistra ’62, Roma, Tipografia AGI, 1962 (p. 121-556).
10. Giovanni Leone, Cinque mesi a Palazzo Chigi, Milano, Mondadori, 1964
11. Guido Formigoni, Aldo Moro, Lo statista e il suo dramma, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016 (pp. 119-336)
12. Massimo Mastrogregori, Moro, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2016 (pp. 74-264)
13. Emilio Colombo, Per l’Italia, per l’Europa (con Arrigo Levi), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013.
14. Emilio Colombo, L’ultimo dei costituenti, a cura di Donato Verrastro e Elena Vigilante, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016.
15. Giulio Andreotti, I Diari degli anni di piombo (1969-1979), Milano, Solferino, 2021 (pp. 444-738).
16. Gabriella Fanello Marcucci, Pella, un liberista cristiano, Roma, Rubbettino, 2007.
17. Arnaldo Forlani, Potere discreto, Cinquant’anni con la democrazia cristiana, a cura di Sandro Fontana e Nicola Guiso
18. Massimo Pini, Craxi, una vita, un’era politica, Milano, Mondadori, 2020
19. Claudio Martelli, L’antipatico. Bettino Craxi e la Grande Coalizione, Milano, La Nave di Teseo, 2020
20. Umberto Gentiloni Silveri, Contro scettici e disfattisti, gli anni di Ciampi (1992-2006), Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2013.
21. Piero Caracciolo (a cura di), Refaire l’Italie, l’expérience de la gauche libérale (1992-2001), Parigi, Ed. rue d’Ulm, 2009.
22. Gianfranco Fini, Il Ventennio. Io, Berlusconi e la destra tradita, Milano, Rizzoli, 2013.
23. Giovanni Orsina, Il berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Venezia, Marsilio, 2013.
24. Enrico Letta, Andare insieme, andare lontano, Milano, Mondadori, 2015.
25. Matteo Renzi, Avanti, Perché l’Italia non si ferma, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2017.
Teaching methods
Courses will be in-person.
Language of teaching: italian.
Assessment methods
Oral exams (questions on the institutional part and the monographic part).
Teaching tools
Powerpoint presentations, videos.
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Giacone
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.