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Italy is in need of fundamental institutional reforms in order to stay internationally competitive and to regain the capability of efficient policy-making. This is the unanimous and longstanding tenor of political observers as well as of the political actors themselves – more relevant than ever following both the dramatic parliamentary elections’ results in February 2013 as well as the current “radical” efforts of Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to overhaul the established institutional structures. However, expectations of a fundamental socio-political turn were already dashed in the 1990s.
Italy is in need of fundamental institutional reforms in order to stay internationally competitive and to regain the capability of efficient policy-making. This is the unanimous and longstanding tenor of political observers as well as of the political actors themselves – more relevant than ever following both the dramatic parliamentary elections’ results in February 2013 as well as the current “radical” efforts of Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to overhaul the established institutional structures. However, expectations of a fundamental socio-political turn were already dashed in the 1990s.