Italy’s Civic Divide

Issue Date January 1995
Volume 6
Issue 1
Page Numbers 173-77
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A review of Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, by Robert D. Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti.

About the Author

Leonardo Morlino is professor of political science at the University of Florence and director of the Research Centre on Southern Europe. His books include Democrazie e Democratizzazioni (2003).

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