trasformismon.
/trazfəˈmiːzməʊ/ In Italy, a system of shifting political alliances, or of changes of allegiance, to form a stable administration or a workable policy. Cf. opportunism n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Italian politics > [noun] > principles or policies
Carbonarism1821
Risorgimento1878
trasformismo1925
1925 A. Solmi Making of Mod. Italy vii. 144 The parliamentary phenomena..called trasformismo.
1943 C. J. S. Sprigge Devel. Mod. Italy ii. 57 A struggle between Trasformismo and groups which endeavoured to gain power in the name of definite principles.
1957 M. Carlyle Mod. Italy ii. 55 Depretis..with his policy of shuffling and reshuffling of cabinets (trasformismo) created the dictatorship of the Cabinet.
1964 Economist 27 June 1462/2 This change of heart looked like the wildest sort of trasformismo.
1973 P. A. Allum Politics & Society Post-War Naples iv. 116 The Piedimonte cobbler was able to fit fascism into his life experience, the classic trasformismo of southern boss politics. Before the March on Rome, everyone was socialist, afterwards, they were all fascists.
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