The Future is in Our Hands. The Christian Democratic Party, the Center-left Governments and Planning
Journal title MONDO CONTEMPORANEO
Author/s Laura Ciglioni
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2022/2-3
Language Italian Pages 35 P. 97-131 File size 305 KB
DOI 10.3280/MON2022-002005
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The article explores how Italian Christian Democrats imagined and debated the future of Italy between the early 1960s and 1968, in light of the country’s rap-id modernization during the years of the economic "miracle", the "Opening to the left" and the center-left governments. At the time, the issue of reforms and plan-ning gained pivotal importance in the Italian political debate. The article offers a threefold perspective. In the first place, it analyzes the post-war era, up to the 1970s, as a global "golden age" for planning. Against this backdrop, it focuses on the debate on planning that took place within Italian Christian Democracy at the time, especially at the 1961 and 1962 conferences in San Pellegrino, identifying the diverse and often conflicting views that contributed to shape CD’s planning policies. Secondly, the article examines the electoral propaganda effort of the par-ty up to the mid-1960s, which was centered on such themes as progress, moderni-zation and the future. Finally, it takes into consideration the attitudes of public opinion towards the center-left governments and CD’s political proposal - a perspective which also allows to explore the expectations of Italians and their hopes for the future through the 1960s.
Keywords: Planning, center-left governments, Christian Democratic Party, the future, Con-vegni di San Pellegrino, electoral propaganda
Laura Ciglioni, Il futuro nelle nostre mani. La DC, il centro sinistra e la sfida della programmazione in "MONDO CONTEMPORANEO" 2-3/2022, pp 97-131, DOI: 10.3280/MON2022-002005