Abstract
Just as any understanding of the Italian political system is dependent upon a prior understanding of the Christian Democratic Party, an understanding of how the DC operates assumes a knowledge of the role and functions of factions within the party organisation. The Christian Democratic Party is composed of a variety of factional groupings in a manner similar to that which we find at the level of the political system. Italy has a multiparty political system, and the Christian Democratic Party has a multifactional organisational structure. Christian Democracy was not at the beginning (and never has been since) a monolithic party structure enjoying clear lines of command, following one line of policy, and having a homogenous social base of support. As a consequence, democratic centralism never had the chance of becoming an accepted principle for the conduct of internal affairs. The party leadership has always had difficulty in maintaining a semblance of discipline among the party’s members in parliament as well as in other public arenas.1KeywordsNational CouncilLeadership GroupPreference VoteParty OrganisationProportional SystemThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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