STORIA DELLE ISTITUZIONI POLITICHE
Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° YearCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: SPS/03 - History of political institutions
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Course Structure
The course, trough frontal lessons, in-depth seminars and laboratory activities with active involvement of students, addresses the evolution of Italian institutions from unification to the reforms of the late twentieth century with reference to the European context and the relationship between the Constitution and administration.
Detailed Course Content
The premises of political institutions in the modern age.
Constitutional and institutional processes in the pre-unification states.
The construction of the unitary State.
Centralization and decentralization.
Italian institutions between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Italian and European institutions in the contemporary age.
Textbook Information
1) G. Astuto, Le istituzioni politiche. Da Cavour al dibattito contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2016.
2) E.G. Faraci, L’Unificazione amministrativa del Mezzogiorno. Le Luogotenenze da Cavour a Ricasoli, Carocci, Roma 2015.
Attending students will be provided with in-depth materials on the course topics.
If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated may be introduced, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the Syllabus.