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trasformismo

Government by coalition, using tactics of forming new cabinets and political alliances, often between conflicting interest groups, in order to retain power. The term has been applied cynically to describe changing the appearance while the essence remains the same.

It was first used to describe the way the Italian nationalist leader Cavour held on to power.
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Indeed, like Nievo's Pisana, donna Caterina emerges from the walls of her tragic (even if voluntary) seclusion only when Auriti's legacy is endangered by the trasformismo of the local political parties.
Rewriting the historical novel on the risorgimento in light of ... by Bouchard, Norma / Italica
Tony Blair is essentially a vehicle of `transformism' -- trasformismo as it was once called in Italy -- the mechanism of theft and adaptation by which Left becomes Right, or vice-versa, always in the name of the State.
DR BRITAIN by NAIRN, TOM / Arena Magazine
There are features of the Italian system such as trasformismo, i.
Modern Italy 1871-1995 by Tripodi, Paolo / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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