Italian Communism in Crisis: A Study in Exit, Voice and Loyalty

@article{citeulike:2552391, abstract = {Achille Occhetto's proposal to transform the Italian Communist Party (PCI) into a postcommunist leftist party provides an opportunity to test Hirschman's theory of organizational loyalty. Party members were given the choices of remaining loyal to a reconstituted party, voicing approval or disapproval over this proposal, or exiting the party. The hypotheses that exit and voice varied together and that a particular kind of loyalty inhibited exist were tested using data from two party congressi di sezioni. The results clearly show exit from the party by `hardline' communists and to a Refounded Communist Party (RC). Additional tests of the relationship between the PCI and RC, as well as Italian election data, corroborate these findings and Hirschman's model. 10.1177/1354068896002001003}, author = {Eubank, William L. and Gangopadahay, Arun and Weinberg, Leonard B.}, citeulike-article-id = {2552391}, doi = {10.1177/1354068896002001003}, journal = {Party Politics}, keywords = {communism, ds, exitvoiceloyalty, italy, parties}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {55--75}, posted-at = {2008-03-18 18:04:14}, priority = {2}, title = {Italian Communism in Crisis: A Study in Exit, Voice and Loyalty}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354068896002001003}, volume = {2}, year = {1996} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2552391 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2552391 N2 - Achille Occhetto's proposal to transform the Italian Communist Party (PCI) into a postcommunist leftist party provides an opportunity to test Hirschman's theory of organizational loyalty. Party members were given the choices of remaining loyal to a reconstituted party, voicing approval or disapproval over this proposal, or exiting the party. The hypotheses that exit and voice varied together and that a particular kind of loyalty inhibited exist were tested using data from two party congressi di sezioni. The results clearly show exit from the party by `hardline' communists and to a Refounded Communist Party (RC). Additional tests of the relationship between the PCI and RC, as well as Italian election data, corroborate these findings and Hirschman's model. 10.1177/1354068896002001003 IS - 1 JF - Party Politics EP - 75 TI - Italian Communism in Crisis: A Study in Exit, Voice and Loyalty VL - 2 SP - 55 KW - communism KW - ds KW - exitvoiceloyalty KW - italy KW - parties AU - Eubank, William AU - Gangopadahay, Arun AU - Weinberg, Leonard PY - 1996/01/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354068896002001003 ER -