Gaetano Quagliariello

Gaetano Quagliariello (2010)

Gaetano Quagliariello (born April 23, 1960 in Naples ) is an Italian political scientist , contemporary historian and politician . He has been a member of the Italian Senate since 2006 and was Minister for Constitutional Reforms from 2013 to 2014. Since 2015 he has been chairman of the small party Identità e Azione (IDEA).

Life

Gaetano Quagliariello is the son of biochemistry professor Ernesto Quagliariello , who was rector of the University of Bari from 1970-77 and then president of the CNR National Research Council . He himself completed a degree in political science at the University of Bari. Since then he has been working as a university lecturer, first at the Universities of L'Aquila and Bologna , and since 1996 at the private university LUISS in Rome, where he holds a full professorship for contemporary political history as well as the theory and history of political parties and movements.

In the 1980s Quagliariello got involved in the Partito Radicale , of which he was deputy chairman until 1982. With the philosophers Lucio Colletti and Marcello Pera , the historian Piero Melograni and the journalist and MP Marco Taradash , he formed the Convenzione per la riforma liberale ("Convention for Liberal Reform") in 1995/96 . From 1994 to 2009 he was a member of the Forza Italia (FI) party, then until 2013 of the successor party Il Popolo della Libertà (PdL). When Marcello Pera was Senate President from 2001 to 2006, Quagliariello was at his side as an advisor on cultural issues. In the 2006 general election he was elected to the Senate for the FI. There he was a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee from 2007-08, after his re-election from 2008 to 2013 he was deputy chairman of the PdL parliamentary group.

In the Letta cabinet (“Grand Coalition”) he was Minister for Constitutional Reforms from April 2013 to February 2014. When PdL split in November 2013 joined the party Quagliariello New Center-Right (NCD), which - unlike the revived Forza Italia of Silvio Berlusconi - the coalition with the Partito Democratico continued under Letta. During the cabinet reshuffle in February 2014, Quagliariello lost his ministerial office to Maria Elena Boschi . He then acted as the national coordinator of the NCD. Quagliariello also heads the liberal-conservative think tank Fondazione Magna Carta , founded in 2004 .

In November 2015, he left the NCD together with Carlo Giovanardi and two other senators and deputies and became party chairman of the newly founded Identità e Azione (IDEA) party. In contrast to the NCD, the latter left the coalition with the PD under Matteo Renzi and instead sought a center-right coalition. In the Senate, she formed a community of factions with other small center-right parties called Federazione della Libertà , whose parliamentary group leader was Quagliariello from May 2017 until the end of the legislative period in March 2018. For the 2018 general election , IDEA ran on a joint list with other small center-right parties (Noi con l'Italia) as part of the larger center-right alliance of Forza Italia and Lega Nord . Quagliariello won the constituency of L'Aquila in Abruzzo and entered the Senate again. There he is now back in the Forza Italia group.

Works (selection)

• De Gaulle, Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2012
• La persona il popolo e la libertà. Per una nuova generazione di politici cristiani, Siena: Cantagalli, 2010
• Gaullisme, une classification impossible. Essai d'analysis comparée des droites française et italienne, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009.
• La religion gaulliste, Paris, Perrin, 2007
• Gaetano Salvemini, Bologna: il Mulino, 2007
• Alla ricerca di una sana laicità. Libertà e centralità dell'uomo, Siena: Cantagalli, 2007
• La Francia da Chirac a Sarkozy cronache (2002–2007), Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2007
• Cattolici, pacifisti, teocon. Chiesa e politica in Italia dopo la caduta del Muro, Milano: Mondadori, 2006
• De Gaulle e il Gollismo, Bologna: il Mulino, 2003
• La legge elettorale del 1953, Bologna: il Mulino, 2003
• La politica senza partiti: Ostrogorski e l'organizzazione della politica tra Ottocento e Novecento, Bari: Laterza, 1993
• Storia della goliardia politica nel dopo-guerra: 1943–1968, Manduria: Lacaita, 1987
• Studenti e politica: dalla crisi della goliardia prefascista al primo congresso nazionale universitario (1925-1946), Manduria: Lacaita, 1987

• ( Editing together with Giovanni Orsina ), La crisi del sistema politico italiano e il Sessantotto, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2005

Web links

• Official website of Gaetano Quagliariello
• Senato.it: Gaetano Quagliariello
• Gaetano Quagliariello's CV on the Movimento IDEA website