The Legislative Party Politics of Repealing Violent Exclusion: Post-Fascist Italy

• In Event: Party Politics and Policy Change in U.S. Legislatures

Brief Overview

How do legislative parties repeal virulently discriminatory laws? I compare patterns of party competition in 1943-87 Italy to study abrogation of the 1938 Fascist “racial laws,” the bases for the persecution, deportation, and murder of Italian Jews.

Author

• Carol Mershon, University of Virginia