Turning Points

Running Head : Political Science

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May 10th 2010

INTRODUCTION

Italy was dominion ruled since early 1800 's to1946 , after a popular referendum which was intended to determine whether the state will be ruled by a head of state who was elected by a popular vote or whether a leader should come from a family dynasty (Chaurasia , 2002 . The social and the economical environment transformation have played a critical role in creating turning points , key elements , and key issues that have helped to transform the political environment

p DISCUSSION

Several turning points , key elements and issues have helped to transform political environment of Italy . These include

Unification in 1861 : The position of being the least in the big powers of the European countries , has influence a turning point as the country craved of having a better position among the top countries (Testa Lemoine Strickland , 200

Fall of dictatorship : This helps in transforming the political environment as the dictatorship style of governance were brought into disgrace (Boyd , 1999

Flexible administration : A turning point of adapting to administration that is more flexible was implemented as the social party had entered into a coalition with the Christian democracy (Pallottino , 2008

Colonial expedition : This is another turning point that was taken by the Italy as unification of the World War I and World War II in to catch up with the more influential countries in Europe (Pallottino 2008

Legistrative powers : The key elements for have legistrative powers to both regions and state was...