Marco Bassani on The Italian Crisis
A Conversation with Prof. Marco Bassani of the University of Milan. TJF: Prof. Bassani, over the weekend Italian voters decisively rejected a set of “reforms” proposed by PM Renzi. It is hard for Americans to understand the significance of the vote, particularly since very few of us follow Italian politics. To begin with, could you please describe Renzi’s proposals. MB: Quite frankly I believe that even most Italians had only a vague idea of the proposed constitutional reforms. They voted from their political guts and clearly rejected Matteo Renzi’s Constitution. The package was a very complex transformation that revolved around the change...
