Word: pasquino
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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Professor Gianfranco Pasquino, of the University of Bologna, suggests an explanation for the trend: "To a very large extent the socialist parties in Southern Europe are new parties. The French from 1971, the Greeks from 1974 and the Spanish from 1976-77. As such, they are identified more with cultural freedom and social justice, with popular demands for improvements in education, in the environment." Pasquino believes too that the socialists in all three countries are perceived as more reliable defenders of jobs. "It is not so much that they have been able to claim they will create more jobs," says...
...rejects Soviet-style Communism. Blaming the sad state of Eastern European regimes on the absence of genuine democracy, the document states heretically that orthodox Communism "ends up not only by killing liberty and creative energy but slows down the very economic, technological and cultural dynamism of society." Says Gianfranco Pasquino, professor of political science at the University of Bologna: "The Communist Party is now so far away from the Soviet Union that one can no longer speak of a possible break-the break has already taken place." That view may go too far, but even some of the Communists...
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