CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Caruso, Teresa |
|---|---|
| Title | THE STATE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL: PRACTICES OF PATRONAGE FOLLOWING THE 1980 ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE |
| Summary | This thesis is about the meaning of disaster, state and its intervention, and political patronage in the context of a local community in Italy. In November 1980 southern Italy was hit by a major earthquake; 90 seconds long, the event triggered social, economic, and political consequences that are present even today. The disaster prompted Rome to the approve of a law in 1981 (Law 219/81), analyzed in some detail in chapter five, which diverted vast amount of national capital to the region. Highlighting the historical context of the event and its institutional aftermath, this thesis focuses on relations between the state and the local community with particular reference to the modifications it created to previously existing patron-client relations in the political sphere. The temporal framework of my argument highlights how one village hit by the earthquake and its inhabitants shift between two pasts: the era that existed before the earthquake and the one that followed it, and their reflections in the local election campaign of April and May 2013. |
| Supervisor | Rabinowitz, Dan; Dafinger, Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/caruso_teresa.pdf |
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