Italy: The extreme right comes in from the cold

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 469-485

  Newell, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034215883     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/53.3.469     Document Type: Article

References (20)

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2. 2 P. Lange, 'Crisis and Consent, Change and Compromise: Dilemmas of Italian Communism in the 1970s' in P. Lange and S. Tarrow (eds), Italy in Transition: Conflict and Consensus, Frank Cass 1980, p. 121.
3. 3 P. Ignazi, Il Polo Escluso. Profilo Storico del Movimento Sociale Italiano, il Mulino 2e, 1998, p. 219.
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5. 5 H. Partridge, Italian Politics Today, Manchester University Press, 1998, p. 69.
6. 6 A. Parisi and G. Pasquino (eds), Continuità e Mutamento Elettorale in Italia, il Mulino, 1977. They define the 'voto d'opinione' as 'above all the expression of a choice that accepts as a framework of options, the programmatic aims espoused by the contending parties', while those who cast a 'voto di appartenenza' are voters who 'give relatively little importance to a dispassionate consideration of a series of programmatic alternatives. Rather, they see their vote above all as the affirmation of a subjective identification with a political party that they regard as being organically linked to the social group they belong to (rather than seeing the party as simply the institutional representative of that group)'. The three-fold distinction between voto di appartenenza, voto d'opinione and voto di scambio (an 'exchange vote' given in return for a favour) became a standard conceptual framework in Italian political science for understanding the social-psychological bases of voting.
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8. 8 Ignazi, 1998 op. cit., p. 437.
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13. 12 See Baldini and Vignati, op. cit.
14. 13 'Democratici di Sinistra' was the name which the Democratic Party of the Left took after February 1998 when it merged with four minor formations of the centre-left.
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17. 16 That is, 'uniti per ricostruire': G. Fini, Corriere della Sera, 24.4.94.
18. 17 R. Chiarini, 'The Italian Far-Right: The Search for Legitimacy' in L. Cheles, R. Ferguson and M. Vaughan (eds), The Far-Right in Western and Eastern Europe, Longman 2e, 1995, p. 37.
19. 18 Chiarini, 1999, op. cit., p. 92.
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