The debate around political misinformation is gaining increasing relevance among the
general and academic audience. If a large body of work is devoted to understanding the …

This paper analyses the digital communication of Italian parties Lega and Movimento 5
Stelle during their campaigns for the European Parliament elections (January-May 2019) …

Abstract In Italy, the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Northern League (LN) formed a
coalition government after the legislative elections of March 2018. What has been the actual …

Since 2013, the success of populist parties has shaken the Italian political system. Beppe
Grillo's 'eclectic'anti-establishment party, the Five Star Movement (5SM) and Matteo Salvini's …

ABSTRACT In January 2018, the Italian parliament approved a new military operation in
Niger and an extension to the existing deployment in Libya. Italian leaders explicitly cast this …

Embedded in scholarship on militant democracy, this research aims to explain how Italian
legislation was positioned to militant democratic measures and how this changed over time …

The European project has always played a pivotal role in Italy's politics and Italian political
discourse. The European Union (EU) represented the primary vehicle through which to …

Once considered an anomaly for its polarized pluralism, then marked, over the last three
decades, by frequent alternations between populist and technocratic governments, Italy is …

This book examines the seismic impact of Brexit on the British political system, assessing its
likely long-term effect in terms of a significantly changed political and constitutional …

The majority view within political science is that populism is best understood as a (thin)
ideology. We problematize the ideational approach by broadening the scope of analysis …