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It will be interesting to see the extent to which reforms
of the laws are actually implemented, just as the same might be said for the laws themselves.  Italy tends to have truly excellent laws, incredibly detailed and "conceptual" in their pristine formulation at the hands of legislators who have been steeped in the intellectual tradition handed down through Giovanni Gentile's "liceo classico".   Even Berlusca himself circulated a memorable
pre-electoral publicity magazine in which he spoke of his
week-ends reading classical authors with Fedele Confalonieri and other coworkers.   The trouble, of course, is that there is usually (and almost necessarily) an enormous gap between the law "on paper" and the law
in "daily practice".   If the laws on the books were ever uniformly enforced, revolution would ensue within hours.
Needless to say, this is not an imminent peril.

Hannah K. O'Luthon
by Hannah K OLuthon on Tue Sep 13th, 2005 at 04:26:45 AM EST
Yes, these are excellent observations. Italy has such an unbelieveble number of laws on the books that it would be impossible to implement them all in practice. If I rememebr correctly, it is among the nations with the most laws on earth.  

There's also a big difference between "campaign proposals " and promises (ask Berlusoni abut those) and actually  implementing the changes.

Regardless of that, thouhg, it is good to see that someone is finally coming forward with an altrenative  program of some sort. And many of Prodi's moves lately, like yesterday's decision to include the Pacs in the cneter-leftì's program have been fairly courageous. Of course, he's alerady getting crucified for it by Mastella and the Ratzingerian Rottweilers.  

by gilgamesh (expat at 6719 dot it) on Tue Sep 13th, 2005 at 07:45:58 AM EST
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