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Paolo Flores d’Arcais

Paolo Flores d’Arcais

Not Through With Berlusconismo

Foreign Affairs
9 December 2011

Berlusconi has resigned, Monti has taken his place, but the post-Berlusconi phase hasn’t yet begun. It’s not even close. In fact, the excessive power that Berlusconi enjoyed, incompatible with the basic principles of every liberal democracy and clearly in conflict with the Italian constitution that came out of the antifascist Resistance, was only partly related to his actually being in power. More…