GIUSEPPE ARE e STEFANO CECCANTI

L'Inghilterra nell'ultimo decennio: le trasformazioni del bipartitismo

N. 161

Summary - According to the Authors the Seventies and the Eighties have seen a decisive debate on the traditional two-party system due not to social determinisms but to the Labour's decisions. The radicalization of the Labour Party has seemed to have gone back, to an anti-modernizing direction. The conservative radicalization has seemed instead to go ahead, towards a debatable direction but at least capable to free new energies against the consolidated ties, and actually towards the bottom, with a direct connection Premier-citizens able to fight the overpower of the veto groups. With the turn of Kinnock the two-party system comes back, but it is actually transformed: only the containers, the two traditional parties, are the same ones; the contents are new, from the political programmes to the electoral followers of the parties up to the element that has revealed itself as the most propulsive in breaking the pre-existing inflexibilities, the quality of the managing groups. The future scenery appears open and unstable. Also the institutions appear under discussion: the impulse towards the reforms aims at a meeting in an intermediate point with the one which instead goes up from the Continent to reduce the consensual slownesses by strong majority elements.