HISTORY OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: ELENA GAETANA FARACIExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to provide students with the knowledge and conceptual tools to understand 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.
A thematic block will concern the role played by the ruling class in the political-institutional history of our country. The course also aims to convey elements on methodological aspects with the aim of knowing the functioning of the current institutions and the changes necessary for their functioning.
Course Structure
Frontal lessons, in-depth seminars and laboratory activities with active involvement of students.
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of historical, political, institutional events of the modern and contemporary age.
Attendance of Lessons
Consigliata, ma non obbligatoria.
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.
Institutions in the fascist era.
Italian institutions in the republican era
European institutions in the contemporary age.
The ruling class at the head of the country.
Textbook Information
1) G. Astuto, Le istituzioni politiche. Da Cavour al dibattito contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2016.
2) G. Astuto, E. G. Faraci, La Sicilia e l’Italia. I protagonisti delle istituzioni tra Ottocento e Novecento, Bonanno Editore, Acireale 2018.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G. Astuto | Le istituzioni politiche. Da Cavour al dibattito contemporaneo, | Carocci | 2016 | 9788843080571 |
| G. Astuto, E.G. Faraci | La Sicilia e l’Italia. I protagonisti delle istituzioni tra Ottocento e Novecento | Bonanno Editore | 2018 | 9788863182088 |
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The premises of political institutions: the birth of the modern state. Constitutional and institutional processes in the pre-unification states. | G. Astuto, Le istituzioni politiche italiane. Da Cavour al dibattito contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2016, Introduction e cap. I. |
| 2 | The construction of the Italian state. Centralization and decentralization. The foreign policy of Cavour and the France of Napoleon III. | G. Astuto, Le istituzioni politiche italiane. Da Cavour al dibattito contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2016, capp. II and III. |
| 3 | The liberal turning point and the Giolittian age. The First World War, the crisis of the liberal political system and the fascist regime | G. Astuto, Le istituzioni politiche italiane. Da Cavour al dibattito contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2016, capp. IV, V, VI. |
| 4 | Repubblican Italy: from centrist governments to the long transition | G. Astuto, Le istituzioni politiche italiane. Da Cavour al dibattito contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2016, capp. VII, VIII e IX. |
| 5 | G. Astuto, Le istituzioni politiche italiane. Da Cavour al dibattito contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2016, capp. VII, VIII e IX. | G. Astuto, E.G. Faraci, La Sicilia e l’Italia. I protagonisti delle istituzioni tra Ottocento e Novecento, Bonanno Editore, Acireale 2018. |