Fascist Era Elites (2). The Fascist ministerial elite

In this study, Goffredo Adinolfi attempts to trace the political and professional profiles of the ministers who served under Mussolini between 1922 and 1943. He succeeds in highlighting three of the principal characteristics of these governments: the concentration of the main portfolios into the hands of Mussolini himself; the existence of an ex-Nationalist ministerial elite within Mussolini’s cabinets; and the high degree of ministerial mobility of the remaining ministers. The problem of the Cabinet’s importance as the only Fascist governmental body that met regularly throughout Mussolini’s twenty-year regime is only briefly touched upon.