Dear Danne Boy,
The issue of regionalism was a concern almost since the unification of
Italy at the end of the 19th century. Antonio Gramsci refered to the
question of the impoverished South in his "Some aspects of the
southern question" (1926)
(<http://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/works/1926/10/southern_question.htm>)
Here are several articles on the question of regionalism:
Allum, Percy (1981). ?Thirty Years of Southern Policy in Italy?,
Political Quarterly 52: 314-23
Piero Bevilacqua, "New and old in the southern question" Modern Italy,
Volume 1 Number 2 Autumn 1996
---------------, "A reply to Anna Bull" Modern Italy, Volume 2 Number
1/2 Autumn 1997, p. 77
Anna Bull, "The south, the state and economic development: remarks on
Piero Bevilacqua's 'Old and new in the southern question'" Modern
Italy, Volume 2 Number 1/2 Autumn 1997, p. 72
Caciagli, M. (1982). The Mass Clientelism Party and Conservative
Politics: Christian Democracy in Southern Italy, in Z. Layton-Henry
(ed.), Conservative Politics in Western Europe. London: Macmillan,
pp.264-91.
Caciagli, Mario and Frank Belloni (1981) ?The ?New? Clientelism in
Southern Italy: The Christian Democratic Party in Catania?,in Samuel
N. Eisenstadt and Réné Lemarchand (eds), Political Clientelism,
Patronage and Development, pp.35-56. London: Sage.
Chubb, J. (1981). The Social Bases of an Urban Political Machine: The
Christian Democratic Party in Palermo, in S. Eisenstadt & R.
Lemarchand (eds.), Political Clientelism, Patronage and Development.
London: Sage, pp.57-90.
Davies, John (1996). ?Changing Perspectives on Italy?s ?Southern
Problem??, in Carl Levy (ed.), Italian Regionalism. History, Identity,
Politics. Oxford: Berg, pp.53-68.
Bruno Dente, (1997) 'Sub-national Governments in the Long Italian
Transition', West European Politics 20, 1: 176-93.
Adriana Destro, "A new era and new themes in Italian politics: the
case of Padania" Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume 2 Number 3,
Fall 1997, <http://www.brown.edu/Research/Journal_Modern_Italian_Studies/2.3/destro.html>
(Only the abstract is available online).
Diamanti, Ilvo 1996 "The Northern League: from Regional Party to Party
of Government", in Gundle Stephen and Parker Simon eds. The New
Italian Republic. From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi,
London: Routledge, pp. 113-29.
Christopher Duggan "Italian Regionalism. History, Identity and
Politics.(Review article)" English Historical Review, Nov, 1998
<http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0293/454_113/53706964/p1/article.jhtml>
Fargion, Valeria (1997). ?Social Assistance and the North-South
Cleavage in Italy?, in Martin Rhodes (ed.), Southern European Welfare
States. London: Cass, pp.135-54.
Ferrera, Maurizio (1997). ?The Uncertain Future of the Italian Welfare
State?, in Martin Bull and Martin Rhodes (eds.), Crisis and Transition
in Italian Politics. London: Frank Cass, pp.231-49.
---------------- Patrons and Clients, in E. Gellner & J. Waterbury
(eds.), Patrons and Clients in Mediterranean Societies. London:
Duckworth, pp.1-6.
Paul Furlong , "Italisn Regional Reform in Constitutional Context"
Contemporary Political Studies (Annals of the PSA Annual Conference),
2003 <http://www.psa.ac.uk/cps/2003/paul%20furlong.pdf>
Margherita Giannoni and Theodore Hitiris, "The Regional Impact of
Health Care Expenditure: the Case of Italy", Discussion Papers in
Economics paper No. 1999/20,
<http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/econ/dp/9920.pdf> (PDF Document -
requires Adobe Acrobat).
B. Giordano 'The Continuing Transformation of Italian Politics and the
Contradictory Fortunes of the Lega Nord', Journal of Modern Italian
Studies, June 2003, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 216-230.
Graziano, Luigi(1976) ?A Conceptual Framework for the Study of
Clientelistic Behaviour?, European Journal of Political Research 4:
149-74.
Carl Levy "Italian Regionalism 1992-2002" Contemporary Political
Studies (Annals of the PSA Annual Conference), 2002
<http://www.psa.ac.uk/cps/2002/levy2.pdf> (PDF Document - requires Adobe Acrobat).
Lupo, Salvatore (1996). ?The Changing Mezzogiorno: Between
Representations and Reality?, in Stephen Gundle and Simon Parker
(eds.), The New Italian Republic. From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to
Berlusconi. London: Routledge, pp.247-61.
Alberto Spektorowski, "Ethnoregionalism: The Intellectual New Right
and the Lega Nord" The Global Review of Ethnopolitics Vol. 2, no. 3,
March 2003, 55-70
<http://www.ethnopolitics.org/archive/volume_II/issue_3-4/spektorowski.pdf>
(PDF Document - requires Adobe Acrobat).
Weingrod, Alex(1968) ?Patrons, Patronage and Political Parties?,
Comparative Studies in Society and History 10: 377-400. 12
Other sources
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Political party site -
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Sito Ufficiale Lega Nord
http://www.leganord.org/
Books
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Anna Cento Bull and Mark Gilbert, The Lega Nord and the Northern
Question in Italian Politics Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000.
Chubb, J. (1982). Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy. A
Tale of Two Cities. Cambridge: University Press.
Thomas W. Gold , The Lega Nord and Contemporary Politics in Italy
C. Levy (ed.), Italian Regionalism. History, Identity and Politics,
Oxford, Berg, 1996
Schneider, Jane (ed.) (1998). Italy's 'Southern Question' :
Orientalism in One Country. Oxford : Berg.
Damian Tambini, Nationalism in Italian Politics. The Stories of the
Northern League, 1980-2000, Routledge, London & New York, 2001.
Tarrow, Sidney(1977) Between Center and Periphery. Grassroots
Politicians in Italy and France. New Haven: Yale University Press.
I hope this answered your question. My search strategy:
- To search for scholars' names (i.e., Tarrow or Levy, who are known
to work on this)
- To search for groups' names (i.e. "Lega Nord")
- To search for academic (site:edu or site:ac.uk) sites only, for
"Italy" and "southern question", "regionalism", and similar terms.
- To search on "FindArticles" (www.findarticles.com) and SoSIG
(http://www.sosig.ac.uk/) for information
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