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Of all populist movements in Europe, Italy's Lega Nord can perhaps lay claim to the greatest political success. The party has been in government three times, including for eight of the last 11 years, and has held several key ministries in coalition govern¬ments led by Silvio Berlusconi. It is a party with a clear ideology, emphasising tough limits on immigration, greater northern autonomy, and characterising Muslims and Islam as representing a fundamental threat to the values and cul¬tural integrity of northern Italians. This report presents the results of a survey of Facebook fans of the Lega Nord. It includes data on who they are, what they think, and what motivates them to shift from virtual to real-world activism. It also compares them to supporters of similar parties in Western Europe, shedding light on their growing online support, and the relationship between online and offline activities. ; -- Acknowledgments -- A note on terminology -- Executive summary -- Background -- Who are the Lega Nord's Facebook supporters? -- Social and political concerns -- Why do people support the Lega Nord online? -- Annex: methodology -- Notes -- References

This paper is the fifth in a series of country briefing papers released in 2012 about the online support of populist political parties and street-based groups in Europe. These papers are based on a dataset of approximately 10,667 Facebook supporters of these 'nationalist populist' parties in 11 European countries, which was published in the Demos report The New Face of Digital Populism, released in November 2011.1 Further papers will be released throughout 2012. Throughout this paper, we refer to two primary datasets by the following terminology: · CasaPound Facebook supporters: The primary data source used in this report is a survey of 423 Facebook supporters of CasaPound Italia, collected by Demos during July and August 2011. All references to CasaPound supporters refer to this group unless otherwise stated. CasaPound officially changed its name to 'CasaPound Italia' in 2008, but for the purposes of this report we will refer to the movement as 'CasaPound'. · Populist parties and movements (PPAMs): In order to draw comparisons between CasaPound Facebook supporters and the Facebook supporters of nationalist populist parties elsewhere in Europe, throughout this paper we refer to the data set collected for The New Face of Digital Populism. This includes 10,667 Facebook supporters of nationalist populist parties and movements in 11 Western European countries. We refer to these as PPAMs throughout. ; -- Acknowledgments -- A note on terminology -- Executive summary -- Background -- Who are CasaPound Facebook supporters? -- Social and political concerns -- Why do people support CasaPound online? -- Annex: Methodology -- Notes -- References