Beset by ethnic strife, the province remains ungovernable.
The leftists bequeathed a bankrupt and ungovernable country, they say—meaning that their own remedies must be robust.
Mr Berlusconi has sought to justify this by arguing that the myriad checks and balances in the system make Italy ungovernable.
It was experiencing a spasm of virtuous reaction, quite as lawless and ungovernable as any of the acts that had provoked it.
The growing idea among influential pundits that America is “ungovernable” is being driven in large part by Barack Obama’s failure so far to pass some of the main laws he wants to.
