The Italian Whip
About this book
Parliamentary battles, votes of confidence, decrees, motions, debates, secret ballots, obstructionism: these parliamentary actions and many others are covered constantly on Italian television and in newspapers. However, very few people actually know what really happens in the Parliament and how the delicate and complex mechanisms of the parliamentary entities work.In this book, Simone Baldelli, who has been a key figure in the House of Deputies for many years, unveils the secret angles of the hemicycle of Montecitorio to his reader in comprehensible and dynamic terms. Baldelli writes from an original and innovative point of view as he played the role of the whip of one of the biggest parliamentary groups in the history of the Italian Republic.
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Table of contents
- The Italian Whip
- Colophon
- Foreword
- Premise to the English edition
- Premise to the Italian edition
- An introduction to Montecitorio
- The group chair
- The Sentry and the Dual Thinking
- The Profile of a Whip
- My First Parliament
- The Location of the DdA
- The Week of a DdA
- Presences and Absences
- On the Razor Edge of Numbers
- Text Messages
- Parliamentary Work by the Pound
- The DdA in Statistics
- The Conference of Parliamentary Group Chairs
- The Permanent Conference of the DdAs
- Bills by Author
- The Journey within the Commissions
- Monday of the Tiger
- Consideration of Measures and the Allotment of Time Quotas
- Obstructionism and the War Over Times
- Self-Obstructionism
- The Votes
- Obstructionist Amendments
- Fluctuations of the Quorum
- The Magical World of Decree-Laws
- Preliminary Questions
- The General Debate of Decrees
- The Amendments
- The Jotti Lodo and the Lodino
- Confidence
- Ordini del giorno
- Explanations of Vote on Decrees
- Motions or Emotions?
- The Opinion on Opinions
- Satisfied or Reimbursed: Parliamentary Oversight
- Question Time
- The Reforms Around the Corner
- Reforming the Rules of Procedure
- The Parliament of the Future
- Index
