Suchergebnisse

1. Beppe Grillo and the Movimento 5 Stelle : a brief history of a 'leaderist' movement with a leaderless ideology / Rinaldo Vignati -- 2. The organization of the Movimento 5 Stelle : a contradictory party model / Rinaldo Vignati -- 6. Between blog, social networks and territory : activists and grassroots organisation / Maria Elisabetta Lanzone and Filippo Tronconi -- 7. The electoral base : the 'political revolution' in evolution / Andrea Pedrazzani and Luca Pinto -- 5. From 'citizens' to members of parliament : the elected representatives in the parliamentary arena / Luca Pinto and Andrea Pedrazzani -- 6. An internet-fuelled party? The Movimento 5 Stelle and the web / Lorenzo Mosca, Cristian Vaccari and Augusto Valeriani -- 7. The Movimento 5 Stelle and social conflicts : between symbiosis and cooptation / Lorenzo Mosca -- 8. A vote(r) like any other? Exploring the protest component in the vote for the Movimento 5 Stelle / Gianluca Passarelli and Dario Tuorto -- 9. Beyond protest : issues and ideological inconsistencies in the voters of the Movimento 5 Stelle / Pasquale Colloca and Piergiorgio Corbetta -- 10. Conclusion : the organisational and ideological roots of the electoral success / Filippo Tronconi.

In 2009 Beppe Grillo, a well known Italian comedian, established the Five Star Movement with the aim of sending a handful of citizens to municipal councils to act as the watchdog of a professional political class often perceived as corrupt and self-interested. However, in the Italian general elections of February 2013, despite still largely being considered a small protest movement, the party gained the undisputed role of leading political actor gaining just under 9 million votes and sending 163 Deputies and Senators to the Italian parliament. The birth and rapid rise of the Five Star Movement represents an electoral earthquake with no parallels in Italy and the whole of post-1945 Western Europe and a phenomenon likely to shape the Italian political scene for many years to come. Drawing on an extensive array of data and face-to-face interviews, this volume offers an empirically grounded explanation of the surprising electoral success of the Five Star Movement and presents a realistic picture of this party in its manifold aspects: organisational structure, communication style, linkages with civil society, ideological nature and positioning in the Italian political system.--

In the last few decades, ethno-regionalist parties have become leading players in many regional political systems across Europe. This increased representation has opened up new strategic opportunities for these parties, and in particular it has offered them the chance to participate in regional government. Based on a newly compiled data set of 282 governmental formations in Italian and Spanish regions during the period 1945–2011, this study develops and tests several hypotheses regarding the governmental participation of ethno-regionalist parties at regional level. These have been partly drawn from similar studies of 'outsider' party families, such as the Green parties or the radical right. A specific focus is then placed on multilevel dynamics, based on the idea that there is a relationship between party strategies at regional and state levels, and in particular on the perception that parties are willing to adopt compatible alliance strategies at the two levels (vertical congruence), at least under certain conditions. Both types of hypothesis (single-level and multilevel) are shown to be plausible when empirically tested on the cases of Italy and Spain. Special attention is given to the conditions under which vertical congruence is used by ethno-regionalist parties as an effective way of minimizing the risks associated with inclusion in governmental coalitions at regional level.