The Minister and His Secretary

ted to ideals of welfare, efficiency and rationalisation on the disappointing models of the Social Democratic parties of Northern Europe? Such questions have deep roots in Italy's social and political reality, much deeper than the power struggles of the moment. They rise from the lack of ideally and historically valuable patterns of behaviour, from the gradual disappearance of the hypothesis of renewal which were or seemed inborn in the opposite ideologies and in the organisations of both the Communist Party and the Catholic Party.