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  • Brothers of Italy

    A New Populist Wave in an Unstable Party System

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    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume examines the origins, ideology, organisation, leadership, political alliances, electoral performance and institutional role of the right-wing party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia, Fdl). FdI’s meteoric rise is only the latest in a series of shocks that have hit Italy’s unstable political system in recent years. However, it would be a mistake to brand FdI as yet another Italian ... Read more

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  • Populism in Europe

    Lessons from Umberto Bossi's Northern League

    Populism in Europe offers a detailed and systematic analysis of the ideology, electoral and governmental performances, organisational model, type of leadership and member activism of the Northern League under its founder, Umberto Bossi (1991-2012). Based on a wealth of original research, the book identifies the Northern League’s consistent and coherent ideology, its strong leadership and its ... Read more

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  • The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain

    by Davide Vampa ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is a study of the increasing territorial variations in the development of sub-national welfare systems that have occurred as an effect of the decentralization of health care and social assistance policies in Italy, Spain and Great Britain. The author examines the political factors that underlie these variations by combining cross-regional and cross-country comparisons using mixed methods ... Read more

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  • Territorial Governance in Times of Crisis

    Regional Responses, Communication and Public Opinion in Italy During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive exploration of multi-level governance, political communication and public opinion in Italy during the Covid-19 emergency. Italy’s territorial arrangements of blending aspects of unitary and federal systems within a ‘regionalized’ framework underscore the tensions between centralization and decentralization, a theme echoed in many other nations. Given the state of ... Read more

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  • Populism and New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe

    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    This book analyses how party competition has adjusted to the success of populism in Western Europe, whether this is non-populists dealing with their populist competitors, or populists interacting with each other.The volume focuses on Western Europe in the period 2007–2018 and considers both right-wing and left-wing populist parties. It critically assesses the concept and rise of populism, and ... Read more

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  • Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

    The Politics of Black Women in Italy

    Series series Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations
    The book examines the experiences of Black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. Although Italy is still perceived as a recent immigration country, the book demonstrates how Black women were among the first groups of new migrants to the country. Black women migrating to Italy were employed almost exclusively as live-in domestic workers and detailed attention is paid to the history and ... Read more

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  • Local Governance in the New Urban Agenda

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  • Reframing Immigrant Resistance

    Alliances, Conflicts, and Racialization in Italy

    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This book focuses on the political participation and grassroots mobilization of immigrants and racialized communities in the European context. Based on extensive data collected in Italy, it explores the role that ... Read more

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  • Making Democracy Work

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