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Home to the largest communist party in a democratic society, Italy has been a unique place politically, one where Christian democrats, liberals, fascists, socialists, communists, and others have co-existed in sizable numbers. In this book, Bobbio, who himself played an outstanding role in the development of Italian civic culture, follows each of the major ideologies, explaining how they developed, describing the key actors, and considering the legacies they left to political culture. He wrote \u003ci\u003eIdeological Profile\u003c\/i\u003e in 1968 to explain from a personal perspective the history behind that decade's tumultuous politics. 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