The Italian Socialist Party: A Case Study in Factional Conflict

@article{Zariski1962TheIS,
  title={The Italian Socialist Party: A Case Study in Factional Conflict},
  author={Raphael Zariski},
  journal={American Political Science Review},
  year={1962},
  volume={56},
  pages={372 - 390},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145437028}
}
The Italian Socialist Party (PSI) is one of the three major groupings—the Social Democrats, the Socialists and the Communists—that have cultivated the ground to the left of center (i.e., to the left of the ruling Christian Democrats) in Italian politics since World War II. As recently as 1951, the PSI appeared to be inextricably linked with the Communists; but the Socialists have gradually worked themselves around to the position, early in 1962, of openly supporting a Left-Center coalition… 
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