ITAL 20X Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Silvio Berlusconi, Mani Pulite, Gfk Entertainment Charts
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Italians like to know there"s a safe place to go jogging; need movie theater for entertainment: there"s an art to living; not just clear cut set of rules. School: public education, college much cheaper, buildings are old that were used for other services (i. e. office, hospital) but great education, low performance kids go to private schools. Berlusconism- lecture: started in early 1990s and ended around 2012, berlusconi very successful entrepreneur, berlusconi develops suburbia (milan) milan becomes big financial. European city: berlusconi builds houses that mirror actual cities for cheap, 1970s: berlusconi finances political parties, 1980s: berlusconi builds his media empire. Buys one of the milan soccer teams: 1993: tangentopoli (-bribesville): collapse of post wwii italian political order. No other democracy had witnessed such a collapse. Widespread deep political crisis, political vacuum, fear that someone from outside would take power (dictatorship; leftist/communist revolution: jan. 1994: berlusconi launches into politics. Communism: 1993-today: a new italian culture and society.
