@article{2017:peterlini:italien_,
title = {Italien – Aufbruch zur Mehrheitsdemokratie? Verfassungsreformen, Wahlgesetze und Verfassungsgerichtsurteile},
year = {2017},
note = {In Italy the 1948 post-war constitution was inspired by a great
democratic and social mission . But the establishment of the state was
more centralistic . Power in Rome was shared by a multitude of parties
centred around the Democrazia Cristiana (DC) . Together with the
purely proportional electoral system, this was a consensual democracy,
albeit partly hidden . In 2001, the constitution was profoundly
reformed . The regions were strengthened as legislative bodies, the
state powers more vertically divided and the consensus extended to
several governmental levels . Although not all changes had fully been
put into place, the wind soon turned . After an unsuccessful attempt
by Berlusconi in 2005, the Renzi government pushed through a
constitutional reform project, which pointed in the opposite direction
. The Italian state apparatus was to become more efficient, the power
concentrated again in Rome and in a single political chamber . A new
electoral system is meant to guarantee the majority for a single party
. Both plans failed, the constitutional reform 2016 in a referendum,
the electoral law Italicum in essential points by a ruling of the
Constitutional Court . The general course, however, seems to be set .},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {838--860},
author = {Peterlini, Oskar},
volume = {48},
number = {4}
}