Italy

The Political Right and Concepts of Civil Society

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ID6292902
AutoresCarlo Ruzza (0000-0002-4003-477X, University of Leicester, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen15
Número3
Páginas259-271
Fecha de publicación2010-10-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569317.2010.513862
OpenAlexW2023072638
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

In this paper I will argue that civil society has come to represent a new 'grand narrative' which is used by all political forces, and notably by the right, as an alternative channel of political representation which in part substitutes and in part integrates a discredited electoral process. Catering to mounting anti-parties and anti-state views, which in the Italian context often amount to tout-court anti-political sentiments, an ideological emphasis on civil society is also an idealized alternative channel for service delivery in key policy sectors. Idealizing these features has enabled the right to claim ideological cohesion. However, on the basis of an empirical examination of the electoral texts of the Italian centre-right, the paper argues that different kinds of right conceive civil society in different ways, variously stressing its anti-state and anti-parties features, its contribution to a reconstruction and enhancement of an idealized national public sphere, and its local-community integrative functions

Civil society · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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