Ferrero, Mario; Brosio, Giorgio - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 9 (1997) 4, pp. 445-475
This paper attempts to explain the puzzling features of the Italian political system up to 1992 by means of an economic model of a democratic Nomenklatura, in which the normal operation of a democratic system is distorted by the self-perpetuation of a ruling elite - `Nomenklatura' - which...