Luigi Ceccarini
Biographic Data
| ID | 4165563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luigi Ceccarini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luigi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ceccarini |
| SIGNATURE | CECCARINI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Urbino |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7204-506X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 273 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Economic insecurity in the 2022 Italian general election
A right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FdI) emerged as the clear winner of the 2022 Italian general election, with voter turnout reaching its lowest level in the history of the Italian Republic. This result unfolded amidst a long-standing sense of economic stagnation, escalating inequality, and rising inflation. The article explores the relationship between individual economic insecurity and the 2022 election results. T…
Italy at the Polls 2022
This book presents the electoral analyses to understand the challenges and consequences that established democracies are currently facing, beyond Italy
Participating and non-participating in Italy. The Covid-19 as a cleavage
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have had significant consequences for various aspects of global society, including the relationship between citizens and politics. This article explores how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted civic and political participation in Italy. To investigate this topic and provide insights, the two authors utilize data from the ‘Italians and the State’ survey conducted by the University of Urbino Ca…
Italy at the Polls 2022
Where has the protest gone? Populist attitudes and electoral flows in Italian political turmoil
What happens when anti-establishment political actors gain strength, enter institutions, and even become the new establishment? To what extent are their electoral profiles and the demands behind them normalised by the system? This article uses ITANES surveys to investigate voters’ reactions to the different paths taken by the three main protagonists of the 2016-2020 Italian populist wave: the M5S, the Lega, and FDI. In particular, it uses panel d…
Could the Internet be a safety-net for democracy in crisis
Democratic politics does not meet the expectations of citizens who have gradually become more critical towards representative politics and the political elite that represent them. From these well-known considerations and social evaluation spread among the citizenry, this paper focuses on political representation and the concept of citizenship in the age of the Internet. After discussing the positive and negative aspects of digital disintermediati…
The Italian General Election of 2018
Towards the 5 star party
2017 is an important year in the short history of the Italian Five star Movement (M5s), both from a symbolic and substantial point of view. Municipal elections held in June marked the end of M5s’s first cycle as a governing actor at the local level, which began in 2012 with its success in the northern city of Parma. Together with the seats gained during regional elections in Sicily in November, the M5s continued its ongoing consolidation in local…
Referendum on Renzi
In the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum, a substantial majority of voters rejected the reforms promoted by Matteo Renzi, leading to his resignation as Prime Minister. Once again, an attempt to redesign the Italian institutional framework failed due to party conflicts. This time, the referendum turned into a vote on the head of government himself. Renzi’s attempt to strengthen his leadership using the referendum as a personal plebiscite back…
The five stars continue to shine
In many countries of Europe, the growth of new political parties is undermining the stability of traditional party systems with their bi-polar (or two-party) formats. Among these parties, the Five Star Movement (M5s) is perhaps the most interesting, this due to the speed of its growth and the originality of its organisational style. Despite the predictions of observers and opponents, it continues to hold centre stage in Italian politics. The arti…
The Five-Star Movement
The MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S, Five-Star Movement), led by the former comedian Beppe Grillo, is one of the political novelties of major interest in the Italian political scene, and also on an international scale. This article examines the Movement's evolution following its extraordinary success at the 2013 Italian general election. Four peculiar features of the M5S's experience are analyzed here: the Movement's anti-system stance; its specific conc…
What a Difference a Critical Election Makes
This article offers an analysis of the factors associated with frequency of political discussion among representative samples of Italian voters during the general election campaigns of 2008 and 2013. This diachronic comparison allows us to assess how political discussion was shaped in two campaigns characterized by widely different opinion climates, with the 2013 one marked by widespread political disaffection. Our findings show that political di…
Protest and project, leader and party
This article analyses public perceptions of the Five Star Movement (M5S). Voters’ points of view are examined by studying opinion poll results from a longitudinal perspective. The authors focus on three issues important for the future of the M5S: (1) the need to choose between pursuit of a substantive political project or anti-political protest; (2) perceptions of the party’s ability to govern at local or national level; (3) the relationship betw…
The election campaign and the ‘last-minute’ deciders
The general election of 2013 marked a ‘turning point’. Voting indecision was significantly higher than in the past while voting choices were made later, with the proportion of ‘late deciders’ and ‘last-minute voters’ growing as compared with 2008 and 2006. Voters’ willingness to change their votes was this time reflected in their actual choices. A more open attitude towards the political offerings was also apparent and this generated a degree of …
Il partito di Grillo
Five Stars and a Cricket. Beppe Grillo Shakes Italian Politics
The article focuses on a new political player: the Five Star Movement led by the comedian Beppe Grillo. The party lies at the junction between different organisational models and conceptions of democracy: it combines an online and an offline presence; it has ‘horizontal’ structural elements, but a top-down decision-making process; it is positioned ‘beyond’ ideologies, while its electorate comes from various political families. The work considers …
La pluralité politique des catholiques
Catholics and politics after the Christian Democrats
The Italian political history, since the unification of the nation in the nineteenth century, has been deeply marked by the influence of the Catholic Church and of the associations in the Catholic universe. For more than 40 years, since the beginning of the second post-war period, the Christian Democratic party had ruled continuously. Practicing Catholics’ electoral choices toward this party lead scholars to talk about Catholic political unity. Y…
From the Street to the Shops
This article argues that substantial changes have occurred in citizen political participation modes and in particular in the repertoire of unconventional action. Over the past few years, even in countries where there was not this tradition, besides forms such as public meetings, demonstration marches, strikes and certain other forms of protest, citizens have started to use their shopping-bag power in an attempt to influence institutional or marke…
Five Stars and a Cricket. Beppe Grillo Shakes Italian Politics
The article focuses on a new political player: the Five Star Movement led by the comedian Beppe Grillo. The party lies at the junction between different organisational models and conceptions of democracy: it combines an online and an offline presence; it has ‘horizontal’ structural elements, but a top-down decision-making process; it is positioned ‘beyond’ ideologies, while its electorate comes from various political families. The work considers …
From the Street to the Shops
This article argues that substantial changes have occurred in citizen political participation modes and in particular in the repertoire of unconventional action. Over the past few years, even in countries where there was not this tradition, besides forms such as public meetings, demonstration marches, strikes and certain other forms of protest, citizens have started to use their shopping-bag power in an attempt to influence institutional or marke…
Referendum on Renzi
In the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum, a substantial majority of voters rejected the reforms promoted by Matteo Renzi, leading to his resignation as Prime Minister. Once again, an attempt to redesign the Italian institutional framework failed due to party conflicts. This time, the referendum turned into a vote on the head of government himself. Renzi’s attempt to strengthen his leadership using the referendum as a personal plebiscite back…
The Five-Star Movement
The MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S, Five-Star Movement), led by the former comedian Beppe Grillo, is one of the political novelties of major interest in the Italian political scene, and also on an international scale. This article examines the Movement's evolution following its extraordinary success at the 2013 Italian general election. Four peculiar features of the M5S's experience are analyzed here: the Movement's anti-system stance; its specific conc…
Catholics and politics after the Christian Democrats
The Italian political history, since the unification of the nation in the nineteenth century, has been deeply marked by the influence of the Catholic Church and of the associations in the Catholic universe. For more than 40 years, since the beginning of the second post-war period, the Christian Democratic party had ruled continuously. Practicing Catholics’ electoral choices toward this party lead scholars to talk about Catholic political unity. Y…
The five stars continue to shine
In many countries of Europe, the growth of new political parties is undermining the stability of traditional party systems with their bi-polar (or two-party) formats. Among these parties, the Five Star Movement (M5s) is perhaps the most interesting, this due to the speed of its growth and the originality of its organisational style. Despite the predictions of observers and opponents, it continues to hold centre stage in Italian politics. The arti…
Towards the 5 star party
2017 is an important year in the short history of the Italian Five star Movement (M5s), both from a symbolic and substantial point of view. Municipal elections held in June marked the end of M5s’s first cycle as a governing actor at the local level, which began in 2012 with its success in the northern city of Parma. Together with the seats gained during regional elections in Sicily in November, the M5s continued its ongoing consolidation in local…
What a Difference a Critical Election Makes
This article offers an analysis of the factors associated with frequency of political discussion among representative samples of Italian voters during the general election campaigns of 2008 and 2013. This diachronic comparison allows us to assess how political discussion was shaped in two campaigns characterized by widely different opinion climates, with the 2013 one marked by widespread political disaffection. Our findings show that political di…
Protest and project, leader and party
This article analyses public perceptions of the Five Star Movement (M5S). Voters’ points of view are examined by studying opinion poll results from a longitudinal perspective. The authors focus on three issues important for the future of the M5S: (1) the need to choose between pursuit of a substantive political project or anti-political protest; (2) perceptions of the party’s ability to govern at local or national level; (3) the relationship betw…
Where has the protest gone? Populist attitudes and electoral flows in Italian political turmoil
What happens when anti-establishment political actors gain strength, enter institutions, and even become the new establishment? To what extent are their electoral profiles and the demands behind them normalised by the system? This article uses ITANES surveys to investigate voters’ reactions to the different paths taken by the three main protagonists of the 2016-2020 Italian populist wave: the M5S, the Lega, and FDI. In particular, it uses panel d…
Economic insecurity in the 2022 Italian general election
A right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FdI) emerged as the clear winner of the 2022 Italian general election, with voter turnout reaching its lowest level in the history of the Italian Republic. This result unfolded amidst a long-standing sense of economic stagnation, escalating inequality, and rising inflation. The article explores the relationship between individual economic insecurity and the 2022 election results. T…
From the Street to the Shops
This article argues that substantial changes have occurred in citizen political participation modes and in particular in the repertoire of unconventional action. Over the past few years, even in countries where there was not this tradition, besides forms such as public meetings, demonstration marches, strikes and certain other forms of protest, citizens have started to use their shopping-bag power in an attempt to influence institutional or marke…
Catholics and politics after the Christian Democrats
The Italian political history, since the unification of the nation in the nineteenth century, has been deeply marked by the influence of the Catholic Church and of the associations in the Catholic universe. For more than 40 years, since the beginning of the second post-war period, the Christian Democratic party had ruled continuously. Practicing Catholics’ electoral choices toward this party lead scholars to talk about Catholic political unity. Y…
La pluralité politique des catholiques
The election campaign and the ‘last-minute’ deciders
The general election of 2013 marked a ‘turning point’. Voting indecision was significantly higher than in the past while voting choices were made later, with the proportion of ‘late deciders’ and ‘last-minute voters’ growing as compared with 2008 and 2006. Voters’ willingness to change their votes was this time reflected in their actual choices. A more open attitude towards the political offerings was also apparent and this generated a degree of …
Il partito di Grillo
Five Stars and a Cricket. Beppe Grillo Shakes Italian Politics
The article focuses on a new political player: the Five Star Movement led by the comedian Beppe Grillo. The party lies at the junction between different organisational models and conceptions of democracy: it combines an online and an offline presence; it has ‘horizontal’ structural elements, but a top-down decision-making process; it is positioned ‘beyond’ ideologies, while its electorate comes from various political families. The work considers …
Protest and project, leader and party
This article analyses public perceptions of the Five Star Movement (M5S). Voters’ points of view are examined by studying opinion poll results from a longitudinal perspective. The authors focus on three issues important for the future of the M5S: (1) the need to choose between pursuit of a substantive political project or anti-political protest; (2) perceptions of the party’s ability to govern at local or national level; (3) the relationship betw…
The Five-Star Movement
The MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S, Five-Star Movement), led by the former comedian Beppe Grillo, is one of the political novelties of major interest in the Italian political scene, and also on an international scale. This article examines the Movement's evolution following its extraordinary success at the 2013 Italian general election. Four peculiar features of the M5S's experience are analyzed here: the Movement's anti-system stance; its specific conc…
What a Difference a Critical Election Makes
This article offers an analysis of the factors associated with frequency of political discussion among representative samples of Italian voters during the general election campaigns of 2008 and 2013. This diachronic comparison allows us to assess how political discussion was shaped in two campaigns characterized by widely different opinion climates, with the 2013 one marked by widespread political disaffection. Our findings show that political di…
The five stars continue to shine
In many countries of Europe, the growth of new political parties is undermining the stability of traditional party systems with their bi-polar (or two-party) formats. Among these parties, the Five Star Movement (M5s) is perhaps the most interesting, this due to the speed of its growth and the originality of its organisational style. Despite the predictions of observers and opponents, it continues to hold centre stage in Italian politics. The arti…
Referendum on Renzi
In the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum, a substantial majority of voters rejected the reforms promoted by Matteo Renzi, leading to his resignation as Prime Minister. Once again, an attempt to redesign the Italian institutional framework failed due to party conflicts. This time, the referendum turned into a vote on the head of government himself. Renzi’s attempt to strengthen his leadership using the referendum as a personal plebiscite back…
Towards the 5 star party
2017 is an important year in the short history of the Italian Five star Movement (M5s), both from a symbolic and substantial point of view. Municipal elections held in June marked the end of M5s’s first cycle as a governing actor at the local level, which began in 2012 with its success in the northern city of Parma. Together with the seats gained during regional elections in Sicily in November, the M5s continued its ongoing consolidation in local…
The Italian General Election of 2018
Could the Internet be a safety-net for democracy in crisis
Democratic politics does not meet the expectations of citizens who have gradually become more critical towards representative politics and the political elite that represent them. From these well-known considerations and social evaluation spread among the citizenry, this paper focuses on political representation and the concept of citizenship in the age of the Internet. After discussing the positive and negative aspects of digital disintermediati…
Where has the protest gone? Populist attitudes and electoral flows in Italian political turmoil
What happens when anti-establishment political actors gain strength, enter institutions, and even become the new establishment? To what extent are their electoral profiles and the demands behind them normalised by the system? This article uses ITANES surveys to investigate voters’ reactions to the different paths taken by the three main protagonists of the 2016-2020 Italian populist wave: the M5S, the Lega, and FDI. In particular, it uses panel d…
Italy at the Polls 2022
This book presents the electoral analyses to understand the challenges and consequences that established democracies are currently facing, beyond Italy
Participating and non-participating in Italy. The Covid-19 as a cleavage
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have had significant consequences for various aspects of global society, including the relationship between citizens and politics. This article explores how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted civic and political participation in Italy. To investigate this topic and provide insights, the two authors utilize data from the ‘Italians and the State’ survey conducted by the University of Urbino Ca…
Italy at the Polls 2022
Economic insecurity in the 2022 Italian general election
A right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FdI) emerged as the clear winner of the 2022 Italian general election, with voter turnout reaching its lowest level in the history of the Italian Republic. This result unfolded amidst a long-standing sense of economic stagnation, escalating inequality, and rising inflation. The article explores the relationship between individual economic insecurity and the 2022 election results. T…
Political science (18 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (10 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (8 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Democracy (6 works)