Ricerc@Sapienza

How were the institutions of the Italian republic conceived and built? In what ways and with
what time scale have they been realized? And what has been their performance for the functioning
of the democratic system? the answer to these questions is developed into four points: the
Parliament, the Government, the administrative apparatus, the system of political parties. the essay
analyses the evolution of these four realities during the republican period, recording their “virtues”
and “weaknesses”.