'One Country, Two Systems'?: Italy and the Mezzogiorno (B)

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Supplement

Reference no. 9-702-097

Subject category: Economics, Politics and Business Environment

Authors: Bruce R Scott (Harvard Business School); Jamie L Matthews (Harvard Business School)

Published by: Harvard Business Publishing

Originally published in: 2002

Version: 21 June 2002

Length: 16 pages

Data source: Published sources

Topics: Business and Government relations; Economics; Politics; Social and global issues; White-collar crime

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Abstract

In 1992, a corruption investigation and two assassinations created a crisis that prompted the Italian government to dispatch 7,000 troops to Sicily to 'retake the island' from the Mafia. This case examines the crisis and the efforts of both the Italian state and the city of Palermo to deal with it. Also explicitly contrasts two development theories in an attempt to explain the economic problems of the South: one cultural (proposed by Robert Putnam); the other political (contained in the writings of Samuel Huntington, Sidney Tarrow, and Simona Piattoni). A rewritten version of an earlier case.

Location:

Italy

Other setting(s):

1990-1999