Introduction : a year of difficult dialogue / Roberto D'Alimonte and David Nelken
General elections of 21 April, 1996 / Alessandro Chiaramonte
Forza Italia : old problems linger on / Patrick McCarthy
Lega Nord : from federalism to secession / Ilvo Diamanti
Italian left after 1996 elections / Stephen Hellmann
Majoritarian and proportional electoral systems : the Sicilian case / Orazio Lanza, Riccardo Motta
Government of Ulivo / Simon Parker
Majoritarian system, Act II : parliament and parliamentarians in 1996 / Luca Verzichelli
Scalfaro presidency in 1996 : the difficult return to normality / David Hine, Emanuela Poli
Politics and consumption : the four revolutions of spectator football / Nicola Porro
Italian intervention in Bosnia and (slow) redefinition of defense policy / Paolo Bellucci
Statesman or godfather? the Andreotti trials / Percy Allum
Italian presidency of the European Union / Philip Daniels.
