This volume examines and analyzes events in Italy during 2011: a year which saw the fall of the Berlusconi government amidst a severe financial crisis and its replacement by a cabinet of unelected technocratic ministers, led by Mario Monti. As the chapters by key scholars from Italy, Ireland, the UK, France and Canada show, in reality, even before the financial crisis struck in the summer of 2011, the most dynamic actors in Italian politics were those outside the main parties.Il 2011 è stato l’anno che ha visto la classe politica della Seconda Repubblica «declassata» dall’Europa, dai mercati, dai principali attori nazionali e dai cittadini italiani. Partiti e leader politici sono apparsi deboli e senza un progetto, capaci solo di riproporre...