Italy Government! what are the strengths and weaknesses of the italian government?

Question

hi all. i need help in a project. i require information on the strengths and weaknesses of the government in ITALY. puh-lease help meee. THKS!

Answer 1

wi ar the best!. Simple put!

Answer 2

Strengths- They're greasy. Weaknesses- They're greasy.

lol seriously though, just look on wikipedia and follow the links they have for info.

Answer 3

Wiki does have a site where the subject is looked into quite deeply:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of...

but I imagine it’s too complicated for your purposes. To help you along in your project, look at the text and pick this out:

-the more successive governments have interfered in the every day life of industry and commerce, the worse it has become in Italy. Italians are good at “doing their own thing”, they have initiative, creativity and talent.  The past Governments that guaranteed this freedom, with a minimum of interference and who concentrated on rendering “national services” (health, defence, infrastructures, education, foreign relations etc.), were very successful. The “interfering ones, who over taxed, over controlled and over structured the bureaucracy were the worst failures (eg the successive left wing Prodi governments):

-the “ethical and moral” status of the governments are exceedingly important. During the “money grabbing” era ( the 80’s), Italy was plunged into debt (national debt went from 60% of the GNP to over 120%) with lot’s of money being siphoned off to the over developed political parties.

-Governments who strengthened the “Sistema Italia” with a service oriented policy were successful, those who bloated it with overstaffing were less successful.

In brief Italian governments are strong when they serve the country, weak when they are self serving, otherwise there is hardly a difference with other European countries.

Finally try and look at it all from Montesquieu's point of view:

When legislative power (Parliament), is clearly separated from Administrative (Government) and Judiciary (Magistrates) power and “public office” serves the country, things work out quite well.  Too many Italians would like to see the Government playing all three roles, that is called “Government dictatorship” and is the worst form of  confusion one could hope for. For a while a "Communist inspired" Judiciary tried to "rule" the country, creating iniquity and confusion: that is called "Magistrates' dictatorship" and is just as bad.

A “Parliamentary dictatorship” is when Government decisions are paralysed (the last Prodi Government) by continues vetoes and blocking motions, this leads to political anarchy and nothing gets done.

Answer 4

I try to explain you something.

Nowadays, we generally complain about the weakness of our Government. Most of us think that  it doesn't have real power, and can't really govern the nation. For example, the Prime Minister can't change his secretaries, if they don't work well. The President of Republic can do this. The Cabinet can't produce laws directly, just proposal of law. Which has to be discussed and approved by our Parliament, and signed by our President. This procedure makes the Cabinet's activity very slow.

There is an historical reason for this. After the end of fascist dictatorship, we wrote our new republican constitution. This law settles our institutional system. Unfortunately, stressed by the recent dictatorship, the Constitutional Assembly was worried about a main point: how to avoid forever a new dictatorship. So, they decided to settle a very complex system, where all powers are in the Parliament's hands. For many years we thought this was the main strength of our system. But we have changed our mind till the 1980s.

In the last 20 years, we have discussed a lot about our need to change the Constitution. But, we have done nothing! The memories of our past is still to strong.

Hope this can help.