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Crisis of parties and change of party system in Italy Author(s): Morlino, Leonardo, 1947- Date 1996 Type Working Paper Series Estudios = Working papers / Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales 1996/77 City: Madrid Publisher: Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales
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CRISIS OF PARTIES AND CHANGE OF PARTY SYSTEM IN ITALY
Leonardo Morlino
Estudio/Working Paper 1996/77 March 1996
Leonardo Morlino is professor of Political Science of the Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, University of Florence (Italy). He was Visiting Professor (Fall Semester 1995) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences of the Juan March Institute. This paper is based partly on a seminar entitled "Is There a Crisis of Democracy in Southern Europe?" presented at the Center on November 16, 1995. Abstract
In the early 1990s, Italian democracy has entered a phase of far-reaching changes, particularly of parties and party system. This article proposes an assessment of what has changed, and why, with specific reference to the most basic features of parties (electoral performance, name, symbol, splits, alliances) from a systemic perspective. In addition, it analyses the depth of change, the party organization, the emergence of new models of parties and the turnover of parliamentary leadership. Finally, the impact of party crisis and change on the party system is evaluated and the degree of change of the same party system assessed. The concluding remarks will suggest how the change of the party system is related to the wider crisis of Italian democracy over the recent period, and the possible choices of the leaders as regards the future party system. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Half a century after its reestablishment (1945-7), Italian democracy has entered a phase of far-reaching changes. To date, the most radical of these concerns its parties and party system. This phenomenon in one of the five largest European countries may be an important test of the ongoing theoretical debate on party change. If until now the main contributions (see recently, for example, Harmel and Janda 1994 and Harmel, Heo, Tan, Janda 1995) have essentially focused on more limited forms of change, the interest of the Italian case lies in the fact that it compels us to analyze more profound transformations involving the disappearance of one or more parties and the change of the very party system itself.
In this analysis, the two key notions which seem most useful are crisis and change. By crisis of a party, as an intermediary and representative structure, I mean the process by which one or more factors of a social, cultural or even economic kind produce a detectable inconsistency1 between the existing party, characterized by a well defined identity, organization, policy positions, and a broadly established electorate, and also supporting interest groups. The main empirical expressions of party crisis are a poorer electoral performance to analyze in a systemic perspective, the change of one or more organizational dimensions, the turnover of leadership, also at middle and local levels. The crisis of a party and, even more likely, of more than one party causes or is caused by the change of features within the existing party system. That is, although the causality may be unclear and work in both directions at once, it is important to identify the systemic aspects involved which provide us with the evidence of what has changed in the system. The outcomes of the process, characterized by the unavoidable interweaving of crisis of party/ies and change of the party system, may be: i)
1 Inconsistency is a catchword meaning the incongruence between the party as "supply" and the "demand" of sectors of civil society, those who previously supported the party and the new ones - that is, an inability of meeting them through the party and, therefore, a growing gap and detachment between the two sides of political society and civil society. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
simply, the overcoming of the inconsistency and crisis without any change; ii) the change-adaptation of the party in one or more dimensions, and to different degrees; iii) the split of the party with the concomitant creation of a new formation; iv) the disappearance of the party; v) the emergence of a new party or parties.
These two definitions, here briefly sketched out, provide the guidelines of the following analysis. I begin by referring to the crisis of parties in a systemic perspective with reference to basic features, such as electoral performance, new name and symbol, split, alliances, and to the main explanatory factors of the crisis; then, to assess better the depth of the change, the transformations of party organizations and the emergence of new models of parties will be considered and the turnover of party élite, and more particularly of their main component, the parliamentary élite, will be explored; third, the impact of party crises and change on the party system will be evaluated. In the concluding remarks, the problems of the future of the party system, and the relationships between the changes of parties and party system and the crisis and change of Italian democracy will be addressed.
What Has Happened to the Parties? (1985-95)
Even prior to the 1994 elections, Italian parties had undergone different but more or less radical transformations. Some parties had undergone a major face- lift; others were in crisis and their transformation had already begun; still others split up or broke down and virtually disappeared; brand new parties were also established. That is, most of the possibilities envisaged above took place. The two key phases of the change occurred in 1991 and 1994, but the apparent beginning of - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
the change can be traced back to the mid 1980s, when local lists flourished2 as well as environmentalist groups. These were the first still fairly limited manifestations of crisis as a consequence of societal discontent and dissatisfaction.
The left was the first segment of the political continuum to undergo crisis 3 and profound transformation. In the case of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), this slow, gradual process came to a head with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. But the process of democratic integration of the PCI had at least two previous key moments: in 1973, with the so-called strategy of the _historic compromise_, aiming at the formation of an alliance with Catholic forces and even with a Catholic party, Christian Democracy (DC); and in 1978-9, when the PCI supported Andreotti's cabinet during a difficult period of terrorist attacks. Later, democratic integration advanced and the party held important internal debates which gradually changed its identity. But the objective presence of the USSR on the international scene with its traditional links with the party was still seen by some as a possible anti-democratic point of reference for Communists and a cause for fear. The disintegration of the USSR and subsequent fall of the Berlin Wall heralded the final stage of this break up. As a consequence, on the one hand, anti- Communism no longer had good reason to exist;4 on the other hand, that break up was also the definitive answer to the old internal debate on "real Socialism": the Communist alternative had been made bankrupt.
A new party was created in February 1991 with a new name, the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), and new logos (see Ignazi 1992, Weinberg 1995, Baccetti forthcoming). A segment of the old PCI with more orthodox
2 Both in the national elections of 1983 and the municipal ones of 1985.
3 Of course, one of the main manifestations of the crisis is its declining electoral performance (to 26.6% in 1987 from 34.4% ten years earlier, in 1976).
4 Actually, a new artificial form of anti-communism was rebuilt by Forza Italia in the 1994 electoral campaign - and it also survived later on. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
communist views created a splinter party, Rifondazione Comunista (Communist Refoundation), with roughly one-third/one-fourth of the electoral size of the PDS: 5.6 to 16.1 in 1992; 6.1 to 20.4 in 1994 (see Table 1). At the same time, the extreme left-wing party, Democrazia Proletaria (Proletarian Democracy), which under other names had been to the left of the old PCI for almost twenty years, disappeared.
The other main aspect of the first phase of change is the formation, growth and success of the Lega Nord (the Northern League), whose first party conference was held in February 1991. The party is the result of an association of various Leagues and other local lists, especially from Veneto, Lombardy, and Piedmont, which all together had won about 6% in the regional and municipal elections of 1990. This new party occupied the space left vacant by the crisis of Catholic culture following the well-known, widespread process of secularization in those regions; it is rooted in precise territorial identities, and has been a successful way of exploiting localist, anti-centralist, anti-party, anti-southerner positions and in supporting the taxpayers' protest. Also the disappearance of the communist- anticommunist Table 1. Electoral Results in 1992 and 1994 (Lower Chamber)
1992 1994
Votes (%) Seats Votes (%) Seats Total seats
Plurality PR segment segment n. %
Rifondazione Comunista 5.6 35 6.0 29 11 40 6.3 Partito Democratico della Sinistra 16.1 107 20.4 77 38 11 18.2 Rete 1.9 12 1.9 9 -- 5 1.4 Verdi 2.8 16 2.7 11 -- 9 1.7 PSI 13.6 92 2.2 15 -- 11 2.4 Lista Pannella 1.2 7 3.5 6 -- 15 .9 6 Cristiano Sociali 0 6 -- 6 .9 PRI 4.4 27 PSDI 2.7 16 Alleanza Democratica 1.2 17 -- 17 2.7 DC 29.7 206 Partito Popolare Italiano 11.1 4 29 33 5.2 PLI 2.8 17 Patto Segni 4.6 - 13 13 2.1 Centro Cristiano Democratico 0 32 -- 32 5.1 Forza Italia 21.0 67 30 97 15.4 Lega Nord 8.7 55 8.4 111 11 12 19.4 2 MSI 5.4 34 Alleanza Nazionale 13.5 86 23 10 17.3 9 Others 5.1 6 3.5 5 -- 5 .8
Source: Official data. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
cleavage after 1989 contributed to opening up the expression of discontent among northern middle classes, that saw the Northern League as the best interpreter of their attitudes (see Mannheimer 1991, Belotti 1992, Diamanti 1992, Mazzoleni 1992, Segatti 1992, and Diamanti 1993).
This is an important feature that deserves to be emphasized: in Italy moderate and deep dissatisfaction has always been much higher than in other European countries. Though basically in line with the European trend, it grew significantly at the end of the 1980s mainly because of the economic crisis.5 The growth of such dissatisfaction paved the way for the success of the Leagues and later of the Northern League, after the main impediment to its expression had been removed: this occurred after the disappearance of the anti-communist cleavage (see Morlino and Tarchi 1995).
These considerations also help us to understand better the crisis of Christian Democracy. In fact, after a long period of strong electoral stability, growing secularization, the growth of dissatisfaction with governmental parties, partly because of deepening economic crisis, and the removal of impediments to the open expression of discontent are the general conditions that account for the Christian Democratic crisis.6 But the true crisis comes later in 1992-94 as the result of two other elements: the strong delegitimizing impact of the investigation Mani Pulite (Clean Hands), led by Milanese prosecutors, and the effect of the new electoral laws. As concerns Mani Pulite, the media coverage of this investigation is the main explanation of its strong delegitimizing impact, but the follow-up of this
5 The relationship between economic dissatisfaction and political dissatisfaction is shown by Lockerbie (1993) for 1983-84. The Eurobarometer surveys show that, during the period 1984-94, the average number of people who declare themselves "not very satisfied" and "not at all satisfied" in replying to the question "Are you satisfied with the way democracy works?" is 73.2% in Italy and 44.7% in EC countries (except Italy).
6 Again the decline of electoral performance (%) illustrates the crisis: 38.7 (1976), 38.3 (1979), 32.9 (1983), 34.3 (1987) and 29.7 (1992) and 15.8 (1994) if PPI and Patto Segni are added (see Table 1). - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
investigation, between 1992 and 1994, shows how strong and pervasive the system of corruption and the illegal forms of party financing were. Thus, the delegitimation deepened. The most interesting effect of the new electoral law is in the so-called "anticipated reactions".7 That is, even before the March 1994 elections, but anticipating the anti-center impact of those quasi-majoritarian mechanisms, the DC, already internally divided, split into different groups (see Figure 1).
In fact, following the replacement of its party secretary in 1993 and a long intra-party struggle, a new Partito Popolare Italiano, the Italian Popular party (PPI) was born in January 1994. The DC's conversion was also preceded and accompanied by schisms both to the left and right: some leaders entered the right- wing Alleanza Nazionale (National Alliance), (ex-MSI) (see below); others formed the Centro Cristiano Democratico (Christian Democratic Center), and became part of the center-right electoral coalition, the Polo delle Libertà (the Pole of Freedoms) in the 1994 elections; others had already formed, in the summer of 1993, another group, led by a former DC politician, Mario Segni; still others formed a party and entered the leftist coalition with the name of Cristiano Sociali (Social Christians); others left the party to become members of a tiny leftist group, la Rete (the Network), close to the PDS; finally, a few entered the brand new Forza Italia (Go Italy!).
As for the Socialist Party (PSI) a similar story may be told. That is, its crisis and breakdown resulted from the direct impact of the Mani Pulite investigation on first, the leadership, and later, the electorate. This was already evident in the electoral campaign of February and March 1992. In fact, the first party élites to be investigated for corruption were the Socialist ones. The second factor of crisis is the political immobility of its leaders - first of all, of Craxi, tied by a pact to the two
7 This is the well-known notion of Carl Friedrich. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
main DC leaders of the time (Andreotti, as prime minister, and Forlani, as party secretary since 1989). In this party the crisis is also manifested, first, in the struggle for a new secretary, actually elected in early 1993 (Benvenuto); later, in the exit from the party of a few leaders who entered either Alleanza Democratica or Forza Italia, when it was formed; finally, in the split up of the party after the 1994 elections into different small pieces (see Figure 1).
Similarly, the Liberals and Republicans have all suffered schisms and have disappeared, or segments have survived with different names and symbols by joining either the PDS-led Alleanza Progressista (Progressive Alliance) or the centrist electoral coalition Patto per l’Italia (Pact for Italy), formed by the PPI and the Patto Segni (Segni Pact) or even the Polo delle Libertà. After changing their party secretary several times, the Social Democrats became such a small group that they were virtually eliminated by the majoritarian bias of the new electoral law.
As for the right, partly as a result of its strong performance in the local by- elections in 1993, the MSI seized the political initiative by creating Alleanza Nazionale (AN), along with the above mentioned tiny group from the former DC. AN, led by the secretary of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement, MSI), Gianfranco Fini, maintained and even softened its rightist conservative positions. Except for some small extremist groups, the secretary was very careful in conveying a clearly defined democratic image. This was also helped by the recruitment of conservative democratic intellectuals. In spite of this, the continuing presence in the party of old neo-fascist middle-level élites and some unfortunate declarations in favor of the previous fascist experience, roused the suspicions not only of the foreign press, but also of most of the centrist and leftist leaders (and sympathizers), and even of the members of the Northern League. The two further decisive steps in the direction of democratic integration were inclusion of MSI-AN in the Berlusconi cabinet after the 1994 elections, as the staunchest - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
ally of Forza Italia in a heterogeneous coalition,8 and the tranformation of the party in a new Alleanza Nazionale, with its Christian-Democratic component in early 1995. In this case, as in the case of the PDS and Rifondazione, the survival of a minoritarian MSI because of the action of nostalgic neo-fascists is an event that the leader of the AN and previous secretary of MSI had to evaluate positively. In fact, it was taken as proof of the democratic integration of the party élites and electors who entered the AN, as opposed to those who revived the MSI because of their nostalgic attitudes towards fascism.
In the second phase of change (1992-94) the delegitimation of Mani Pulite investigation went on and in April 1993 the stalemate among political actors, over which electoral law to choose at the national level, was broken by a referendum which designated a quasi-majoritarian law for the Senate. At this point the Parliament had to approve a new law for the Lower Chamber, which was passed in early August 1993.9 From our vantage point, however, the most important element in this phase was the foundation of a new party, Forza Italia. At the approach of the 1994 election it became evident that the delegitimation and crisis of both the DC and the PSI, as well as the other tiny, moderate centrist parties (PLI, PRI, PSDI) had created a vacuum within the vast moderate electorate.10 In this very favorable context and after a period of incubation and secret debates, in January 1994 Forza Italia was founded under the leadership of the television magnate Silvio Berlusconi. Within only a few weeks of its birth, opinion polls
8 In fact, in the coalition there were Forza Italia, MSI-AN, and two smaller groups, the Centro Cristiano Democratico and the Unione di Centro Democratico (see Figure 2), but also the Northern League.
9 For details of the electoral laws see D’Alimonte and Chiaramonte (1993).
10 Let it be recalled here that the local by-elections in important towns in June and November- December 1993, held under the new majoritarian law approved in March 1993, had an immediate polarizing impact, and their results, which on the whole were favorable to the leftist coalition, also contributed to Berlusconi’s decision to enter politics. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
indicated that it would become the largest party in the new parliament.
The above-mentioned political vacuum in the center and center-right accounts for the startling, quick surge of Forza Italia in public opinion surveys. But the massive use of television propaganda is the additional necessary condition for explaining both its speedy formation and success. This is a key point which deserves to be stressed: several commentators have emphasized how the ownership and control of three national television channels and the virtual control of several other local networks gave Berlusconi's party an enormous asset during the electoral campaign. In addition, he was able to exploit such an asset by taking advantage of some loopholes in the law governing electoral propaganda. A careful, conscious use of opinion polls also suggested to him how the existing political vacuum in the center/center-right could be filled by the issues that later on were to characterize his electoral propaganda. Thus, first of all, hopes of success were grounded on the combined effect of the supply of a "new product" by an entrepreneur with great expertise in advertising, and a demand for "new products" emerging from civil society (see also Diamanti 1994). - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Figure 1 - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Figure 1 presents the entire picture of party changes, beginning in 1985 - the last electoral year when crisis and change had not yet been clearly expressed. Maybe the most interesting consideration suggested by this map is that the two phases of the change are very neat and delineated. Whereas the first phase is explained by more long term factors, the second phase is accounted for more by short term factors. In particular, the concentration of change in 1994 points out how the elections themselves were important catalysts of the change.
No stable situation, however, was achieved even after the elections. Within a few months, at the end of 1994 and January-June 1995, there was a split in the Northern League with the creation of Federalists; a split of the Popular Party between those closer to centrist positions and the secretary Buttiglione and those closer to the center center-left led by Bianco; an alliance and a prospective fusion of the CCD with the PPI led by Buttiglione to form an Unione Democratico Cristiana (Christian Democratic Union),on the one hand, and with a piece of the old socialdemocrats (European Liberals), on the other; a reshuffling of tiny socialist groups, on the center-left, with the formation of the "Lay and Socialist Coordination" and of parliamentary group with other socialists, republicans and Democratic Alliance MPs, named "Democrats"; and even a split in the extreme left of the Communist Refoundation and the consequent formation of the "Communists for Unity" (see Figure 1).
Party Organization and Parliamentary Elites
So far the analysis has shown the whole set of possibilities envisaged at the beginning of this article, except for the re-establishment of the same party. But to understand better how profound the crisis of parties is, other indicators must also be considered. In fact, the change of names and symbols or even splits and mergers - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
might actually have little significance. These might only be a face-lift, and nothing more: the leaders remain the same, as do the organizations, and even the policies pursued continue unaltered. Thus, to assess how deep was the actual crisis and change of parties it is necessary to look at the party organization and the party élite turnover; in spite of their possible salience it is too early to give any answer about changes in policies. These two indicators cover different aspects. In fact, on the one hand, the analysis of party organization allows us to consider long-term elements, which are also emerging gradually in other European countries; on the other hand, the change of party élites may be a short-term event, very common in the phenomena of transition and for this reason specific to Italy during these years.
With regards to party organization,11 the first phenomenon to stress is the sustained decline in the presence and diffusion of parties in civil society. During the 1970s and 1980s the partisan élites were still the main actors in Italian politics, characterized by patronage in the allocation of resources. At the same time, the need for a large party membership declined mainly because of a deradicalization among the main parties (DC and PCI), a related deideologization and the development of the political role of television after 1983, when for the first time the private TV networks played a role in an electoral campaign. Thus, this phenomenon, already stressed by Kirchheimer many years ago (1966), was enormously accentuated, from the beginning of the deradicalization years (1976) and even more so after 1983. With its estimated total membership rate (TMR),12 Figure 2 presents strong evidence for this. Thus, the presence of parties in civil
11 The following discussion is based upon research conducted by a group under the direction of Leonardo Morlino. Preliminary (pre-1992) results of this research have been published in Katz and Mair (1994). A more complete report, that will also cover the period 1992-95, will be published in Morlino (forthcoming).
12 TMR is simply the ratio between the total estimated membership of all parties and the electorate at the moment of the elections. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
society has enormously declined and has become fundamentally different.13
If the figures for each party are considered, a basic difference between traditional parties (e.g. PCI and MSI) or their successors (PDS and AN) and new parties emerge. In fact, on the one hand, the membership of the traditional parties has radically declined: for example, the specific membership rate14 of the PCI was .21 in 1963, but .09 in 1994; on
Figure 2. Total Membership Rate (1946-94)
13 This important element is only mentioned here, but it deserves to be discussed in greater depth. The key point is that since at least 1983 the presence of mass parties in civil society has been gradually substituted by the role of TV. For example, Ricolfi (1994) shows how in the 1994 elections a relevant percentage of the vote shifted toward the center-right alliance because of the influence of television.
14 This is the measure suggested by Duverger (1951), that is, the ratio between the membership of a party and the votes won by the same party in the electoral year. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Source: Calculations on official data. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
the other hand, the membership of new parties no longer has the same meaning as for old mass parties. To put it better, they are not mass parties. Thus, for the League, the member is a militant coopted from above, and the result is rather close to the cadre party; for Forza Italia, he is a member of a local electoral committee, instructed from above and with no role to play during non-electoral years (see Table 2).
Table 2. Mership of Main Italian Parties (1984-1994) RC PCI/PDS DC/PPI Lega FI MSI/AN
1984 1.619.940 1.408.208 180.688 1985 1.595.281 1.444.592 141.623 1986 1.551.576 1.395.239 156.520 1987 1.508.140 1.812.201 165.427 1988 1.462.281 1.887.615 151.444 1989 1.417.182 1.862.426 166.162 1990 1.319.305 2.109.670 142.344 1991 112.278 989.708 1.390.918 150.147 1992 119.094 769.944 - 140.000 181.243 1993 121.055 690.414 813.753 202.715 1994 120.000 700.000 233.377 300.000 355.000
Notes: Figures for the PDS begin in 1991; for PPI in 1994. With regard to Christian Democracy, in 1991 the data of 14 provinces were not considered; in 1992 there are no figures as at the end of that year the secretary, Martinazzoli, erased all membership because the data had been artificially inflated for reasons of internal competition among party factions; in 1993 the data of two regions (Sicily and Sardinia) and three other provinces were lacking. The figure of Forza Italia is an estimate suggested by the party officials, grounded on the 6.500 clubs of Forza Italia, actually in existence in December 1994, and the approximate estimate of 40-50 people per club; to them 5.112 members of the party should be added. In the last figure of MSI/AN, 250.000 members belong to the Movimento Sociale Italiano and 105.000 to the 1.300 clubs of Alleanza Nazionale.
Sources: Official party data. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
A second element to be stressed is the continuous coexistence of different organizational models. Not only are elements of both the professional-electoral party (Panebianco 1988), except in the expertise of Publitalia for Forza Italia, and the cartel party (Katz and Mair, 1995) hard to see in these parties, but above all it is impossible to see only one emergent organizational model in the party system: as in the past, there are more than just one. Thus, since the late 1940s a mass integration party, such as the PCI, had always cohabited with a denominational and catch-all party, such as the DC, or opinion parties (Republicans, Liberals or Social Democrats)(see Bardi and Morlino 1994). In the 1990s, a variety of other models are also present, in spite of the elapsed time and of the hypothesis on the homogenizing impact of political competition.
The PDS and Rifondazione managed to preserve the structures of the former PCI, especially in Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, and Umbria. The PCI's heritage of offices and militants did not disappear, even though the PDS had decided, even prior to 1991, to reduce the number of party officials and rely on a leaner organization. It should be noted that all traditional parties implemented similar policies of sacking party functionaries and reducing the size of party organization, given their respective financial difficulties. As a result, in July 1993 parliament passed a law that allowed party functionaries to be pensioned off early. Thus, on the whole, the PDS maintained some of the elements of the old mass integration party, becoming a sort of post-mass integration party, looking for a new model.
In contrast with the "light" party structure of the democratic left, the League developed a strong organization manned by voluntary workers - many of them young - from a variety of social backgrounds. It emerged as a markedly hierarchical party with a strong leader and a central office controlling finances, electoral campaigns and party policy. As much as possible - and even with - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
reference to its patterns of recruitment - the party organization is managed with the efficiency criteria which are typical of a private business or firm. Different organizational tenets are present in the League: it is a charismatic party, a cadre party, and also a party-movement. In addition, since 1990 it has moved from being a protest party to becoming a governmental party. The impact of governmental experience and the growing autonomous role of the parliamentary party is having very important consequences. In fact, an organization solidly rooted at local level, but with low institutionalization at national level, was not able to bear and overcome the strains and pressures of internal dissent. The leadership of Bossi was itself challenged, especially on the issue of participating in the Berlusconi cabinet. At the end of 1994, on two occasions a group of MPs split away and a strong group opposed Bossi from within the party (Figure 1). The most important turning point came in February-March when Bossi regained full control of the organization, and turned it once again into a protest and movement-party. The regional and local elections of April 1995 strengthened its leadership by showing how Bossi was right in his position: despite the various splits and the formation of a new party (Figure 2), all in all the League lost only a limited part of the electorate: less than one third (2.7%) of its previous electoral strength (from 9.1 in 1994 to 6.4 in 1995).
Some of the organizational aspects concerning the League reveal how deeply the values of entrepreneurship, efficiency, and the free market have penetrated Italian political culture, especially in all Northern areas, as a reaction against the inefficiency of bureaucracy and the poor quality of public services. The same is suggested by the organization of Forza Italia. The plans for such a party were carefully laid during the second half of 1993. The party was launched and its organization openly built up in late January-March 1994, before and during the electoral campaign for the March elections. The key organizational role was performed by the staff of Publitalia, a company, which is part of Fininvest (the - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
conglomerate owned by Berlusconi) and which is a leading firm in advertising at a national level. In a few days, between February and March 1994, they were able to set up about 13,000-14,000 clubs all over Italy with about 80 people per club. According to the official party data, they had become 6.500 in December 1994 with about 40-50 people per club. The clubs are vertically connected to a national association of clubs (ANFI), which are expected to suggest their political line. In an organizational sense, Forza Italia is very difficult to define, partly because of its binary organization: the clubs, on the one hand, and the party with its tiny membership (all in all, 5.112 members)15, on the other. If we focus on its recent genesis, Forza Italia can be considered a sort of firm-party, given the key role performed by Publitalia, and the role of Berlusconi is crucial. Today, it is trying to establish itself by maintaining all its previous set of structures, its parliamentary party, its governmental position, and a strong, undisputed leader. However, in this poorly institutionalized party the experience of being in office and the conflicts with its coalition partners have brought about internal dissent and clearly distinguishable groups, though not factions. As an additional consequence, the MPs became a key figure in this organization in linking the centralized undisputed leadership with the local level of the clubs.
The new Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI), a direct successor of Christian Democracy, can no longer depend on the political unity of the Catholic vote, since this was divided among five main groups of the left, center, and right (see above and Figure 1). Nonetheless, despite the substantial process of secularization that had taken place in Italy over the preceding 25 years and a more limited possibility of influence, the PPI can still rely on support from sectors of the Church hierarchy, the Catholic associations (AC), another Catholic group named Comunione e
15 But in June a much debated project of internal reform was proposed by Milanese leaders to give a greater role to the members and membership, and overcome the internal inconsistencies of the organization. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Liberazione (CL), and some sectors of the Catholic worker association (ACLI) (see also Cartocci 1993 and below). From this perspective, the PPI may be considered a neo-denominational party. The split of the party in two will probably also imply a split of the Catholic support in favour of both new formations.16
The far-reaching effects of internal change are also apparent when the enormous turnover of party élites is examined, above all with reference to the patterns of recruitment, their socio-economic backgrounds, and some characteristics of their behavior. Since in almost all contemporary democracies the core party élites sit in Parliament, the data on MPs elected in 1992 and 1994 are essential to deal with these problems. First, whereas the newly elected deputies make up 27% in 1979, 32.1 in 1983, and 28.2 in 1987, they were 42.9 in 1992 and 71.3 in 1994 (63.2 in the PR seats) (Verzichelli 1994). Actually, in only a few years there is an almost complete turnover of the parliamentary élites: in the present Chamber of Deputies 88.6% (558 out of 630) are MPs elected for the first time in 1992 or 1994; 5.6 were also elected in 1987; only 5.9% - that is 37 people out of 630 - have a longer legislative experience.
The turnover is very high for each party, but it is clearly higher for the new parties: 90.4% newly elected in Forza Italia versus 61.5% in PDS. At the same time the newly elected are also numerous whenever a party increases its vote (see Table 1): the newly elected are 77.5 in the MSI-AN (Verzichelli 1994, 717).17 The extent of the turnover explains why previous experience in politics or trade unions is less prominent for deputies, who are usually younger than in previous
16 It is also worthwhile mentioning the organizational change of the Socialist Party, which placed the party entirely in the hands of its leader, Craxi, during the 1980s. Eventually, this change was one of the causes of the abrupt breakdown of the party when Craxi was involved in Mani Pulite. See Di Virgilio (forthcoming).
17 Note that these data refer to the majoritarian seats; with regard to the PR seats, the newly elected are 54.1% in PDS, 85.7 in Forza Italia, and 59.1 in MSI-AN. This suggests that the proportional lists were also used to save the old leaders. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
legislatures. In this case, too, candidates with previous political experience in local administrations or as party leaders are more frequent in the traditional parties than in Forza Italia or the League (see Verzichelli 1994 and Lanza 1995).
If the analysis is stopped at this point, nothing really new would emerge in terms of party change. The most relevant conclusion would be that the patterns of party recruitment - especially, parliamentary recruitment - is enriched by a successful appeal to people without previous political experience, above all in the new parties (the League and Forza Italia). Of course, this is only a temporary conclusion: as happened to the League between 1992 and 1994, in the next legislature the situation will change. Thus, for Forza Italia and even more so for the League, the newcomers will decrease a great deal.
When socio-economic variables concerning MPs are analyzed, more interesting elements appear. First of all, there is a steady increase in MPs coming from the private sector: from 25.7% (1987) to 34.6 (1992) and 44.4 (1994). Consistent with these figures, in the League in 1992 and 1994, and in Forza Italia in 1994, the presence of people coming from different interest associations or also more specific interests is strong: 34.4% in Forza Italia in 1994, with 14 MPs coming from Publitalia and Fininvest, as well as industrial entrepreneurs, land- owners, tradesmen (Lanza 1995, figs. 13 and 21-22).18 This aspect is also evident if a sample of all candidacies is considered: 23% of candidates of Forza Italia are entrepreneurs and 19% are managers, tradesmen or people from the private tertiary sector; 7% of the candidates of the League are also entrepreneurs and 36% belong to the other three sectors (Mattina 1994: 581).19 That is, in addition to, and
18 Almost 11% of MPs belonging to the Popular Party are members of Catholic organizations. This confirms the support of the Church for PPI and lends greater justification to its definition as a neo- denominational party (see above).
19 Mattina (1994: 575) also stresses that the interest organizations are officially neutral in the electoral contest. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
in partial substitution of, the traditional lawyers or civil servants, private interests decide to enter the political arena directly. This means that the choice made by Berlusconi was not an isolated phenomenon; and to say the least it was imitated: the uncertainty of these years, the anti-party sentiments or also - as in the case of Berlusconi - the links with the previous political élite has encouraged people with relevant personal interests to enter politics.20 The serious possibility of an electoral victory for the "hated Communists" made it unthinkable for Berlusconi and other entrepreneurs to maintain a position of neutrality.21 If such an attitude is maintained even when the uncertainties of the political transition is over, then there is actually something new in the patterns of party recruitment. Of course, once a habit is established, it is also more difficult for it to disappear.22
On the whole, whereas the organizational analysis conducted in this section clearly confirms the deep, long-term transformations of parties, the change of party élites gives evident, but less conclusive indications. In fact, the data refer to this transitional, uncertain phase of Italian democracy (1992-95), but later on the phenomenon could be confirmed or also change, and the interest groups could return to their business.
20 Socio-economic status is very relevant for 73% of the MPs of Forza Italia (Lanza, 1995: tab.14).
21 The national association of entrepreneurs (Confindustria), however, did not openly give Berlusconi support and maintained an official position of neutrality. This support for him was more manifest at the rank and file level, above all, at the post-electoral meetings of the entrepreneur association.
22 A high turnover usually implies a new élite with poor knowledge of the actual working of institutions and, at the same time, of the problems that need to be solved. This is especially relevant in the Italian case given the high salience of the parliamentary committees in the decisional arenas. Consequences of this may be high decisional inefficacy and radicalization. Both elements have occurred after March 1994, but the causal relationship is difficult to prove. On radicalization see also below. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
The Party System After the 1994 Elections
In this section the impact of the crises and consequent changes of parties on the party system will be evaluated, with the change of electoral system, as a key additional variable. The most obvious question we should address is whether there is a new party system, even if still in a transitional phase and far from being established, or one that corresponds or is equivalent to the previous system.23 To reply, let us consider, first, the number of parties.24 If only the parties which gained votes or obtained a minimal percentage of seats are considered, there is fragmentation to some extent: one or two more parties between 1987 and 1994. But if a more precise and reliable measure is applied, some interesting aspects emerge. That is, after a very high level of stability between 1946 and 1987, displayed by the vote fractionalization (VF =.79 in 1946 and .78 in 1987) (see Table 3) and two very polarized elections in 1948 and 1976 (VF =. 66 in 1948 and .72 in 1976), fractionalization increased in the first phase of the crisis of parties and party system in the early 1990s (VF= +.7 between 1987 and 1992) (Table 3). In 1994 the growth was very limited and, since the calculation is done on the basis of
23 Contrary to what some commentators have written, the change-adaptation of some parties (PCI to PDS and MSI to AN), the crisis and breakdown of others (Christian Democracy, PSI, PSDI, PLI, PRI), the formation and growth of new actors (Northern League and Forza Italia) do not allow us to address the question of whether the party system is the same as earlier. As suggested in the text, the question is whether an equivalent party system emerged. The previous party system was considered a case of polarized pluralism (Sartori, 1976: 131-73), characterized by a high number of parties (more than five) and high ideological distance, and more specifically by anti-system parties, bilateral opposition, center placement of one or of a group of parties, high polarization, centrifugal competition, and other less relevant, and connected features. But at least since the second half of 1970s, the system began changing (see also Farneti 1983).
24 The impact of the 1994 elections on the number of parties is also carefully discussed by D’Alimonte and Bartolini (1995). - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
the votes cast in the proportional segment, the possible impact of the quasi- majoritarian electoral law is not evident.
If the _effective_ number of parties is calculated with reference to the seats, again after a very long period of stability the number became much higher in 1992 and still higher in 1994. In this case, too, the expected reduction caused by the new electoral laws is lacking. On the contrary, unlike the VF, the increase between 1992 and 1994 is very close to that between 1987 and 1992 (see Table 3). Thus, in April 1994 the MPs elected in the Lower Chamber belonged to at least 14 parties, and the same happened to the Senate.
A qualitative analysis of this issue clarifies further the meaning of the increased fragmentation, that is of the number of parties. It can be taken for granted that the sheer number has to be related to the size of parties, as both measures mentioned above actually do, and that the aspect to point out concerns the composition of the Chambers and the related problems in the formation of the cabinet and opposition. If so, the main point is that the increased number of relevant parties derives from the breakdown of Christian Democracy. In fact, the formation of the cabinet and its parliamentary support are usually easier when there is a dominant or pivotal, larger party as there was in Italy up to 1987. When the DC entered its crisis-period (1992) and then broke down (1994), three main parties with similar strength replaced it, MSI-AN (17.3% of seats), Forza Italia (15.4%), and the Northern League (19.4%), in addition to tiny groups (CCD, UDC and Riformatori) (see Table 1 and Figure 1). Forza Italia with its leadership is not able to perform the same unifying and pivotal role as the DC. It is a simple problem of parliamentary size (see Table 1): in the previous center-left cabinets, where the DC played a key role, a crisis could only be precipitated by the withdrawal of the Socialists from the cabinet, whereas in the Berlusconi cabinet with Forza Italia, the withdrawal of both MSI-AN and the League could have - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
precipitated the collapse of the cabinet.25 This means that it is more difficult to maintain the coalition and consequently there is a less stable cabinet and in this sense a higher fragmentation of governmental forces. In addition, there is a corresponding higher fragmentation of the opposition, recorded also by the measures mentioned above (see Table 3). It is due to the split of the leftist wing of the Communist party when the PDS was founded, and Rifondazione won 6% of the seats and an even greater electoral strength in some areas of the country - around 10%.
Table 3. Changes in the Italian Party System (1946-94)*
VF EP TEV I-BV
1946 .79 4.3 (42.9) 1948 .66 2.6 22.8 12.9 1953 .76 3.6 13.3 4.6 1958 .74 3.4 4.5 1.0 1963 .76 3.7 7.9 1.3 1968 .75 3.6 3.4 1.4 1972 .76 3.6 4.9 1.1 1976 .72 3.1 8.2 4.5 1979 .74 3.4 5.3 .7 1983 .78 4.0 8.5 .3 1987 .78 4.1 8.4 1.1 1992 .85 5.8 16.2 5.2 1994 .87 7.3 41.4 5.8
* Vote fractionalization (VF) in 1994 has been calculated on the basis of votes cast for the proportional segment; in all cases the Rae’s fractionalization index (1971: 56) has been adopted. The effective number of parties (EP) has been calculated with the Laakso and Taagepera’s formula (1979). For the EP in 1994, if one considers the electoral coalitions (Polo delle Libertà, Patto per l'Italia, Progressisti, in addition to Lista Pannella and other small local lists) and not the single parties, the EP is 3.6. TEV is Total Electoral Volatility. The figure in parenthesis refers to the TEV vis-à-vis the last democratic elections before the establishment of Fascism in 1922. With regards to inter-block volatility (I-BV), in 1994 Social Democrats (PSDI)(as it was done in 1992) and Lista Pannella have been included in the center-center/right block;
25 The crisis of the Berlusconi cabinet (April-December 1994) was caused by a no-confidence motion of the Northern League. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Source: Official data
Thus, on the whole, even if we consider the two rules for counting suggested by Sartori (1976: 122-3), that is the _coalition potential_ and the _blackmail potential_ of other parties, the party system still remains a case of extreme pluralism. But since 1992 and above all after 1994, it is more extreme since the size of the four main parties (MSI-AN, Forza Italia, League and PDS) became almost the same because of the breakup of the center (DC) and the split in the left. The two laws for the elections of the Lower Chamber and the Senate did not have the effect of reducing the number of parties, in spite of the majoritarian component, for three evident reasons: first, the counteracting effect of the proportional component of laws; second, the territorialization of the vote for the different parties, that prevents the reductive impact of plurality, as is well known (see also below); and third, the electoral agreements among the various party lists on the distribution of single-member districts. Unless the electoral law is changed with a double ballot and/or a high threshold is introduced, no reduction of parties may be expected in the future.
In addition, party fragmentation appears even more problematic in the formation of stable cabinets if the component parties of similar size pursue different policies, that is, if number and size are compounded by a large ideological distance among them. In mentioning this second important dimension of the party system some elements of the previous decade have to be recalled, even if only in cursory fashion. In fact, such a dimension can only change slowly. From this point of view the basic features of the previous party system, defined as polarized pluralism, were already gradually changing since the mid 1970s. Following a process inaugurated for the left in 1973 with the strategy of _historic compromise_, the integration of extreme parties had been fully accomplished by 1995. The - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
change of PCI into PDS in February 1991 and of MSI or MSI-AN into National Alliance (AN) in January 1995 are the points of arrival of this integration. Even the Communist Refoundation cannot help but recognize the democratic institutions, which at this moment have been in existence for half a century.
Thus, the anti-system parties26 that have charactered the Italian party system for decades no longer exist. Bilateral oppositions have also disappeared. For the first time the Right represented by the MSI was in office in the Berlusconi cabinet and the opposition came from the center and the left. To be sure, the coalitional capability of the PDS may also be taken for granted, not only because it gave crucial support to the cabinets in the difficult years of terrorism in 1976-79, but also remembering its very short participation in the Ciampi cabinet27 and its support for the Dini cabinet, formed at the end of January 1995.
There is no longer a center occupied by one party because of the crisis and the fragmentation of Christian Democracy. However, there are weaker center parties: together with the two PPIs, there are the tiny group led by Segni and some center-leftist groups. The PPI itself, relatively better rooted in society and consequently potentially more solid than the other tiny parties which are simply élite groups, split on the problem of defining electoral alliances: with Forza Italia and Berlusconi or in the center and, in some cases, allied to center-leftist parties.
The end of anti-system parties, the disappearance of bilateral oppositions, a center no longer occupied by one big party, such as the DC - all this means a smaller ideological distance and the existence of an ongoing process of deradicalization of parties. At the same time, the delegitimation of traditional
26 The definition of anti-system party is that suggested by Sartori (1976: 133): a party which "undermines the legitimacy of the regime it opposes", and "would not change - if it could - the government, but the very system of government".
27 They changed their minds in a few hours, maybe because they were afraid of internal criticism and attacks from the extreme left. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
governing parties, the creation of new parties and the discontent of civil society have all brought about an enormous increase in volatility: both the total volatility (TEV) and the volatility between left and right or inter-block volatility (I-BV)(see Table 3). To trace similar figures, the TEV between 1922 and 1946 has to be taken into account. This means an enormous growth in competition precisely at a moment of democratic crisis, transition and, consequently, of uncertain rules.28
All this causes a new, opposite process of radicalization. This phenomenon is characterized, first of all, by the attempt of rightist and center-rightist parties to recreate an artificial cleavage between communists and anti-communists. The term is obsolete, but it still belongs to the collective memory of Italians and, therefore, if successful thanks to party propaganda, this cleavage may reduce the competition and will keep people in the moderate, rightist camp. Second, there is a substantial problem for the new forces establishing their identities and political space, and it concerns the League and Forza Italia in their relationship with civil society. Such a problem is compounded by the low institutionalization of these parties with their internal divisions and conflicts. Third, accentuated verbal violence in political discourse throughout 1994 and 1995 also shows the strength of the conflict over which model of majoritarian democracy should be implemented, which governmental institutions should be created, even over what kind of electoral laws to have, and over what solutions should be given to the problems arising from the enormous public deficit in terms of changes in welfare institutions, with particular regard to pensions.
28 The TEV is partially explained by the presence of new parties. However, the analysis of 1994 elections shows more precisely how the competition is much higher in the South and in the districts of Senate vis-à-vis the Lower Chamber. See Bartolini and D'Alimonte (1994:649). - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Figure 3. Electoral Poles Along Left/Right, 1987 - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Source: Official electoral data. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Figure 4. Electoral Poles Along Left/Right, 1992 - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Source: Official electoral data. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Figure 5. Electoral Poles Along Left/Right, 1994 - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Source: Official electoral data. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Thus, there is an effect of bipolarization,29 as a result of the electoral law and the crisis of DC and PSI: Figures 3-4-5, where the changing electoral strength of the poles is measured,30 show such a phenomenon and the consequent profound change of the left/right profile, particularly after 1992. There is also a process of deradicalization as a result of the democratic integration of all parties and, at the same time, a new radicalizing process for the reasons mentioned above. If bipolarization is reinforced by this new radicalization, the tendency towards a new polarized pluralism, without anti-system parties and a strong, central actor, but with a few center forces, might be consolidated so that center parties will have more opportunities to play alone and exploit their pivotal position vis à vis the other parties or alliances; if, on the contrary, the radicalization is overcome thanks to the solution - even a partial one - of the main substantive problems or also to the moderating action of leaders, the bipolarization will remain strong, but moderate competition gives room to rightist and leftist alliances, and the center parties have little chance of growth and, at the same time, are forced into allying with one side or the other.
Another element completes the picture. Both the crisis of Christian Democracy and the impact of an electoral law with single member districts have brought to the fore an old tendency of Italian politics, namely the territorialization of the vote (see, e.g. Cartocci 1987). In the North of Italy (Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Friuli), there are the strongholds of the League; Emilia, Tuscany, Umbria
29 Here I make a distinction between polarization, as increasing aggregation around electoral poles (if there are two, it is a bipolarization), and radicalization, as increasing distance among political positions in a stronger conflict. When the two phenomena overlap, a tendency towards polarized pluralism (see fn.21) is set in motion. Sartori (1976:131ff.) does not make this distinction since he does not need to do so. Conversely, as shown in the text, in the transition from polarized pluralism to moderate pluralism (and vice versa), or to a neo-polarized pluralism, the difference seems useful.
30 The poles have been measured simply placing the various parties, with their electoral strength, on a ten-point scale on the grounds of their traditional self-placement along the left/right dimension. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
and other areas of the center are dominated by the left; in the South (Puglia, Sicily and other areas of Campania) there is the strong presence of the extreme right in alliance with Forza Italia. In other words, a sort of territorial pluralism has clearly emerged, characterized by four Italies (see, recently, Ricolfi 1994) with different economic problems and difficulties, too. Such a territorial pluralism complements and defines better the existing extreme pluralism with regards to the center. In fact, not only does it add another conflictual dimension to the left/right, it also creates room for a center party with local identities, e.g. the League, that at this point is not compelled to look either for allies or for more moderation in its policy positions.
After the Change, the Choice
In the mid 1990s the parties are far from being internally stabilized and other changes are expected: the various splits at the end of 1994 and the first semester of 1995 show such a fluidity. The party system is one of fragmented or extreme pluralism, which should remain basically stable if a strong electoral law with reducing effects is not approved; and even if this is so, such reduction will only come in the middle term.31 But the new radicalizing drives which have emerged, if further strengthened, may stabilize a neo-polarized pluralism, which may be helped by the political - not only electoral - differences of the various areas of the country. That is, in the party system the number of parties may remain stable, but the patterns of competition are still unsettled, and they are very unlikely to become well defined if the same crisis of Italian democracy is not overcome.
31 The electoral history of the Fifth French Republic is evidence of this. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
In fact, the change of party system and parties is strictly interwoven with the crisis of Italian democracy. At least since the end of the 1960s in Italy, there has been a latent crisis laced with dissatisfaction and discontent, which had never previously emerged - first, because of the existence of parties not fully integrated in the democratic regime, both on the left and right, and later because of terrorism. When this situation gradually faded away during the 1980s, the crisis gradually became a manifest crisis as there was no longer any constraint to the open expression of discontent and protest for the moderate opinion of the middle classes and of all the propertied interests. At this point all the conditions for change existed. As stated above, this came with a few fortuitous external events, such as the Mani Pulite investigation, to which we should add the referenda of 1991 and 1993, that provoked the change in the electoral laws (see Morlino and Tarchi 1995).
By way of conclusion, it is possible to speculate as to future developments of the party system. On the basis of this analysis the political and institutional choices of party leaders will mainly be responsible for these developments. First, leaders who choose to moderate and accommodate or to exacerbate political conflicts or to establish some alliance rather than others will push the party system in different, opposing directions. Second, the approval of a different electoral law, such as the double ballot, and the establishment of a strong premiership would strengthen the drift toward moderate pluralism, also by taking away political space from center parties. In contrast, the maintaining of the present electoral laws and the approval of direct election of the head of the state (or, also, of the chancellor) would leave more room for radicalization and consequently the establishment of a neo-polarized party system. If no choice is made, the present phase of uncertainties with both centripetal and centrifugal tendencies will be prolonged with no challenge to democracy as such, but with serious problems in terms of policy performance. Yet, in a fourth scenario, the - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
decisions on the crucial problem of maintaining or dismantling welfare institutions to curb the enormous public deficit may well provoke reactions from civil society, the delegitimation of forces which at the moment are poorly institutionalized, and new crises and changes in parties. Again much depends on the decisions, or non- decisions, that the party leaders will be able to make. - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
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Figure 1. A Left-Right Map of Traditional and New Parties (1985-95)*
1985 1987 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
DP ...... PRC...... Communisti per l'Unità .. PCI...... PDS...... Rete...... PSI ...... Laburisti ...... Socialisti Italiani ...... Part.Soc. Riformista...... Cristiano sociali...... Alleanza democratica...... Verdi Sole che ride
Verdi...... Verdi Arcobaleno
PR ...... Riformatori ...... Lista Panella ...... Patto Segni...... PPI (Bia)...... Liga Veneta...... Lega Nord...... Lega Federalisti...... Lombarda
PRI...... PSDI ...... Socialdem...... Liberali Europei ...... PPI......
DC...... Unione Democratico-Cristiana ... CCD...... - ¡Error!Marcador no definido. -
Forza Italia ...... UDC ...... PLI ...... Feder.liberali ...... AN ...... MSI-DN ...... MSI-AN...... MSI...... * For the meanings of the acronyms see the text. The dotted lines suggest the continuity of the same party; the arrows the relationships between the previous party and the successor one, mainly at an élite level; the point of departure of the arrows the moment when the split or the merger is carried out.