Background
LaPalombara, Joseph was born on May 18, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Louis and Helen (Teutonico) LaP.
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{ DEMOCRACY ITALIAN STYLE } by Lapalombara, Joseph (AUTHOR) Feb-15-1989 Paperback
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Multinational corporations and national elites: A study in tensions (Conference Board report ; no. 702)
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Multinational Corporations and Developing Countries (Report - The Conference Board ; no. 767)
(Book by LaPalombara, Joseph)
Book by LaPalombara, Joseph
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Democracy, Italian Style
( A country that seems to lean into the void but never r...)
A country that seems to lean into the void but never really falls into it may actually be firmly anchored there, like the Tower of Pisa.” Joseph LaPalombara The Italian republic, at forty, is alive and well. Some consider this fact a miracle; many more judge it a paradox. Italy is the country of permanent crisis, where there have been forty-five national governments in forty years. Tax evasion is a way of life, one adult in three votes communist,” the citizens have no kind word to spare for their political leaders and instructions, and the state itself is simultaneously in conflict with the Vatican and at war with the Mafia and political terrorists. How could a democracy take root, to say nothing of grow robust, in such an improbable setting? In Democracy, Italian Style, the foremost expert on the Italian political system unravels this puzzle and, in the process, suggests that the only real paradox is the failure of so many observers, including Italians themselves, to recognize that what may be pathological for democracy in one climate may actually work in democracy’s favor in Italy. Writes Joseph LaPalombara: --Although Italy seems rent by conflict, the leftists, laical, and Catholic political enclaves that contribute to these clashes also serve to keep them within bounds. Terrorism itself, far from weakening Italian democracy, has actually strengthened the people’s democratic backbone. --Italy’s much-maligned political leaders have few peers among democracies, in part because few others have been as severely tested. --Much of Italian politics turns out to be spettacolo” and rich in nuance. Elections, the legislative process, contacts with public officials, tax evasion, and political patronage do not mean in Italy what they may mean elsewhere. --More than other democracies, Italy is heavily dominated by its political parties, and many deplore this condition. But, far from being the bane of Italian democracy, the parties are its saving grace. For this reason, demands for radical reform of the present system should be resisted. Challenging the still-dominant picture of Italy, LaPalombara asserts that in a relatively short span, the Italians have managed to forge a remarkable democracy, one that reveals degrees of toleration, freedom, and sheer political inventiveness others should find enviable. A wonderful book. It opens an unusual window onto Italian politics, for one thing, but it is also a remarkably sensitive an intelligent introduction to Italian society in general.” Kai Erikson
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The Italian Labor Movement: Problems and Prospects
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Bureaucracy and political development / edited by Joseph LaPalombara ; contributors: Carl Beck and others
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Bureaucracy and Political Development
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Italy - The Politics of Planning
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Bureaucracy and Political Development, 2nd, Second Edition
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Interest Groups in Italian Politics
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Multinational corporations in comparative perspective (Conference Board report ; no. 725)
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Joseph LaPalombara
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Education
AB, University of Illinois, 1947; AM, University of Illinois, 1950; AM (Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor fellow), Princeton University, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1954; student, University Rome (Italy), 1952-1953; Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1964.
Career
Instructor, then assistant professor political science Oregon State College, 1947-1950. Instructor politics Princeton University, 1952. Member faculty Michigan State University, 1953-1964, professor political science, 1958-1964, head department, 1958-1963.
Professor political science Yale University, 1964-1996, professor political science and management, 1996—2001, Arnold Wolfers professor, 1969—2001, Arnold Wolfers professor political science and management emeritus, since 2001, chairman department political science, 1974-1978, 82-85, professor School Organization and Management, 1979—1984, 1997—2001. Senior research scholar Yale Center for Comparative Research, since 2001. Director Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 1987-1992.
Chairman Council Comparative and European Studies, 1966-1971. Cultural attache, first secretary United States embassy, Rome, 1980-1981. Visiting professor University Florence, Italy, 1957-1958, University California-Berkeley, 1962, Columbia University, 1966-1967, University Turin, 1974, University Catania, 1974, John Cabot University, 2003, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome, 2003.
Consultant Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1956, Carnegie Corporation, 1959, Brookings Institution, 1962, Ford Foundation, 1965-1976, Twentieth Century Fund, 1965-1969, Agency for International Development, 1967-1968, Foreign Service Institute, 1968-1972, 74-76, Educational Testing Service, 1970-1975, Rohm & Haas, 1975-1976, General Electric, 1978-1980, Alcoa, 1978-1980, Union Carbide, 1981-1992, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, 1983-1993, Montedison, 1984-1985, Guardian Industries, 1990-1993, Praxair, 1992—2008, Swiss Bank Corporation, 1994-1999, Athena, 1994-1995, Richard Medley Advisors, 1995-2001, Telecom Italia, 1996-1999, S.I.A.D., since 1999, Open Society Institute, since 2004. Senior research associate Conference Board New York, 1976-1981. President Italian-American Multimedia Corporation New York, since 1988.
Board directors Transparency International-United States of America, since 1994, Genico Inc., since 2007.
Achievements
Works
book
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Democracy, Italian Style
( A country that seems to lean into the void but never r...)
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Multinational Corporations and Developing Countries (Report - The Conference Board ; no. 767)
(Book by LaPalombara, Joseph)
- Political Parties and Poitical Development
- { DEMOCRACY ITALIAN STYLE } by Lapalombara, Joseph (AUTHOR) Feb-15-1989 Paperback
- Multinational corporations and national elites: A study in tensions (Conference Board report ; no. 702)
- Bureaucracy and Political Development
- Democracy, Italian Style by Joseph LaPalombara (1989-09-10)
- The Italian Labor Movement: Problems and Prospects
- Bureaucracy and political development / edited by Joseph LaPalombara ; contributors: Carl Beck and others
- Bureaucracy and Political Development
- Italy - The Politics of Planning
- Bureaucracy and Political Development, 2nd, Second Edition
- Interest Groups in Italian Politics
- Multinational corporations in comparative perspective (Conference Board report ; no. 725)
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Democracy, Italian Style
Membership
Member executive committee Inter University Consortium Political Research, 1966-1970. Member staff Social Science Research Council, 1966-1973. Chairman West European foreign area fellowship program Social Science Research Council-American Council Learned Societies, 1972-1974.
Board directors Michigan Citizenship Clearing House, 1955. Member international council Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1990-2001. Member Council on Foreign Relations.
United States committee American Foreign Policy, 1996—2005. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Connecticut Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy in Rome (trustee 1984-1990), Social Science Research Council (committee comparative politics 1958-1972), American Political Science Association (executive council 1963-1965, executive committee 1967-1968, vice president 1979-1980, member conference group on Italian politics and society 1978, conference president 1984-1985, Career Achievement award 2005), American Academy Political and Social Science, Society for Italian History Studies, Societá Italiana di Studi Elettorali, Consiglio Italiano di Scienze Sociali, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Eta Sigma, Yale Club of New York, Elizabethan Club.
Connections
Married Lyda Mae Ecke, June 22, 1947 (divorced). Children– Richard, David, Susan. Married Constance Ada Bezer, June, 1971.
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Decorated knight Commander Order of Merit, Republic of Italy. Fulbright scholar, 1952-1953, 57-58, Penfield scholar University Pennsylvania, 1953. Fellow Social Science Research Council, 1952-1953, Center Advanced Study Behavioral Sciences, 1961-1962, Rockefeller Foundation, 1963-1964, Ford Foundation, 1969, Guggenheim Foundation, 1971-1972, European University Institute, 1996, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1996. Recipient Guido Dorso prize, Italy, 1984, Medal of Honor, Italian Constitutional Court, 1993, Presidency of Italian Republic, 1993, Distinguished Alumni Achievement award University Illinois, 2003.Decorated knight Commander Order of Merit, Republic of Italy. Fulbright scholar, 1952-1953, 57-58, Penfield scholar University Pennsylvania, 1953. Fellow Social Science Research Council, 1952-1953, Center Advanced Study Behavioral Sciences, 1961-1962, Rockefeller Foundation, 1963-1964, Ford Foundation, 1969, Guggenheim Foundation, 1971-1972, European University Institute, 1996, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1996.
Recipient Guido Dorso prize, Italy, 1984, Medal of Honor, Italian Constitutional Court, 1993, Presidency of Italian Republic, 1993, Distinguished Alumni Achievement award University Illinois, 2003.