{"title":"Towards an inadequately rational bicameralism. The Italian Senate ‘reform’ (1948–1963)","authors":"Salvatore Mura","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2148398","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After the adoption of the Italian Constitution, why did the parties choose to reduce instead of emphasizing the differences between the two Chambers that formed the Parliament? This article highlights the importance of the debate held in Italy between 1948 and 1963 on the functions, composition and methods to elect the Senate. The result, the Constitutional Law 3, 1963, eliminated almost all the differences between the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. This cannot, therefore, be considered a ‘small reform’, as it was defined, but one that profoundly conditioned the Italy’s subsequent political history and the evolution of Italian bicameralism.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"323 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2148398","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT After the adoption of the Italian Constitution, why did the parties choose to reduce instead of emphasizing the differences between the two Chambers that formed the Parliament? This article highlights the importance of the debate held in Italy between 1948 and 1963 on the functions, composition and methods to elect the Senate. The result, the Constitutional Law 3, 1963, eliminated almost all the differences between the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. This cannot, therefore, be considered a ‘small reform’, as it was defined, but one that profoundly conditioned the Italy’s subsequent political history and the evolution of Italian bicameralism.
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The Journal of Modern Italian Studies (JMIS) is the leading English language forum for debate and discussion on modern Italy. This peer-reviewed journal publishes five issues a year, each containing scholarly articles, book reviews and review essays relating to the political, economic, cultural, and social history of modern Italy from 1700 to the present. Many issues are thematically organized and the JMIS is especially committed to promoting the study of modern and contemporary Italy in international and comparative contexts. As well as specialists and researchers, the JMIS addresses teachers, educators and all those with an interest in contemporary Italy and its history.