Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy: A Tale of Two Cities

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List of tables and figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Part I. The Roots of Clientelistic Power: 1. Politics in the South, 1860-1943: regime change and political immobility 2. The southern economy: modernisation without development 3. Christian democracy in the postwar South: clientelism and the failure of reform Part II. The Social Bases of the Machine: 4. The white-collar middle class 5. The local entrepreneurial class 6. The Mafia as entrepreneur: the politics of urban expansion and urban renewal 7. The urban poor: poverty and political control 8. The urban poor: three neighbourhood studies 9. Why does clientelism survive? Part III. The Prospects and the Limits of Change: 10. Naples under the left 11. Conclusion Statistical appendix Notes Selected bibliography Index.

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