Changes in Italian electoral behaviour - the relationships between parties and voters, Arturo parisi and Gianfranco Pasquino; muddling through - economics and politics in Italy 1969-1979, Michele Salvati; labour unions, industrial action and politics, Marino Regini; organised business and Italian politics - Confindustria and the Christian Democrats in the postwar period, Alberto Marinelli; Italian Christian Democray - a party for all seasons?, Gianfranco Pasquino; crisis and consent, change and compromise - dilemmas of Italian communism in the 1970s, Peter Lange; the Italian Socialist Party under Craxi - surviving but not reviving, David Hine; the available state - problems of reform, Giuseppe di Palma; Italy - crisis, crises or transition?, Sidney Tarrow.