Piero Ignazi
Biographic Data
| ID | 641710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piero Ignazi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piero |
| FAMILY NAME | Ignazi |
| SIGNATURE | IGNAZI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9015-7789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 717 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The nostalgia of the mass party
Why are political parties on the defendant’s bench? What do people want from parties today? Is there any chance of recapturing citizens’ hearts and minds? This paper addresses questions linked to the crisis of confidence in parties in western European countries. After surveying some hypotheses on the origin of the discontent, the paper suggests that parties are trapped by an untenable pledge derived from their original connotation. The pledge con…
Class, religion and socialist parties: The unpredicted effect of (a)religious voting
In recent years, academic literature has stressed the declining importance of social class and religion as determinants of vote. In particular, many scholars have found that the working-class vote is no longer mostly addressed to socialist parties, whereas religious people still massively support confessional and conservative parties. This article explores the actual resilience of the two cleavages with particular attention to the relationship be…
Pauline Picco, Liaisons dangereuses. Les extrêmes droites en France et en Italie (1960-1984): Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2016, 301 p
Dans l’ouvrage Liaisons dangereuses. Les extrêmes droites en France et en Italie (1960-1984), Pauline Picco confesse de manière improvisée, aux pages 143 et 144, à quel point l’étude des méandres obscurs des années de plomb s’avère désorientant. Les informations sont en effet dispersées, d’une ampleur démesurée, les sources souvent contradictoires : entre affabulations, négligences, témoignages réticents, opacité et diversions des institutions pu…
The End of Cornucopia: Party Financing after the Great Recession
This article investigates the dimension and evolution of the financing of political parties. It focuses on 28 parties in the five major European countries (Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain), analysing the parties’ budgets from 2002 to 2016. The article's assessment shows that the availability of funds increased until the beginning of the Great Recession (2008), and then decreased, mainly due to a decline in public support for parties. Diminished…
The failure of mainstream parties and the impact of new challenger parties in France, Italy and Spain
Political parties share a very bad reputation in most European countries. This paper provides an interpretation of this sentiment, reconstructing the downfall of the esteem in which parties were held and their fall since the post-war years up to present. In particular, the paper focuses on the abandonment of the parties' founding ‘logic of appropriateness’ based, on the one hand, on the ethics for collective engagement in collective environments …
La vie politique: Pour Pascal Perrineau
Party change and citizens’ retrotopia
The article argues that the persistent high level of dissatisfaction vis-à-vis parties comes from a mismatch between public expectations and parties’ performances. The present lack of confidence in parties is not attributable to failings in terms of representation or the fulfilment of policy promises. A more subtle process is apparently in operation. Parties are, rather, criticized and even despised for the image they and their representatives pr…
The four knights of intra-party democracy: A rescue for party delegitimation
This article discusses the state of agony parties are experiencing today. In a nutshell, I argue that parties are now at pains to retain their linkages with society, and that the compensation they envisaged has further damaged them. To respond to sociocultural and economic changes which had weakened parties both in their organizational standing and in their public reputation, parties took a dual route: They went to the state to acquire financial …
Sartori’s party system typology and the Italian case: The unanticipated outcome of a polarised pluralism without anti-system parties
In this article we discuss Sartori’s party system typology and its eventual applicability to the Italian post-1994 party system. The first part of the article is devoted to an examination of the typology with particular reference to the case of the polarised pluralism which Sartori considered appropriate for the Italian party system until the late 1970s-early 1980s. In the discussion of the typology, particular attention has been attributed to th…
Territory, religion, and vote: Nationalization of politics and the Catholic party in Italy
This analysis challenges the consensus that, in post-war Italy the Catholic party [Democrazia Cristiana (Dc)], actively supported by the Catholic Church, fostered a process of vote nationalization. The paper, drawing upon a more fine-grained level of analysis, different statistical measures, and within and across regional models, provides a more nuanced interpretation. According to our analysis, although the Dc effectively acted as a homogenizing…
Fascists and Post-Fascists
Il contributo analizza l'evoluzione organizzativa, ideologica e strategica del neofascismo italiano dalla sua fondazione fino alla sua metamorfosi in Alleanza Nazionale nel 1995.
Vent'anni Dopo. La Parabola Del Berlusconismo: La Parabola Del Berlusconismo
Il libro analizza le ragioni dell'affermazione di Silvio Berlusconi nella politica italiana prendendo in considerazione le trasofrmazioni economiche, sociali, culturali e politiche del decennio precedete alle elezioni del 1994. inoltre traccia l'evoluzione dell'attività politica del leader di Forza Italia fino alla fine del suo ultimo governo nel novembre 2011
Power and the (il)legitimacy of political parties: An unavoidable paradox of contemporary democracy
This article presents an interpretation of the present malaise that afflicts the political party in established democracies. Today, parties are not only seen as inefficient or unscrupulous instruments, they are increasingly being labelled as illegitimate. The basic reason for this bad reputation lies in their detachment from society and their encroachment on the state. Parties tried to counteract the difficulties they faced in extracting resource…
Lineages and family resemblances: Tracing the Italian DC vote after 1994
The Christian Democracy – Democrazia Cristiana (Dc) constituted the center of gravity in Italian post-war politics. The party collapsed after 1992, due to long-term changes in Italian society and the eruption of the Clean Hands investigation on political corruption. The Dc lost more than half of its vote in the 1994 elections: where did they go? Our answer highlights the effects of modernization and secularization as key causes in regional variat…
Religion, Rurality and Voting: Secularisation, Landownership and Italian Electoral Behaviour, 1953–2008
This paper analyses the impact of socioeconomic and religious factors in explaining the long-run electoral decay of the dominant party in Italy’s so-called “First Republic” (the Catholic Dc), and the emergence of the regional autonomous Lega Nord-Northern League on the Dc’s debris. On the basis of a unique data set collected by the authors this paper examines: a) the effects of modernization and secularization of the Dc electoral dénouement with …
Votes and Votive Candles: Modernization, Secularization, Vatican II, and the Decline of Religious Voting in Italy: 1953–1992
The authors examine the effects of modernization and secularization on the vote for the religious party in the Italian First Republic (1948–1992). In addition to modernization and secularization, they also introduce two new factors to the analysis: the importance of institutionalized Church and effects of the Church’s Vatican II reforms. Italy is of particular relevance because of the centrality of the Catholic religion in the Italian society and…
Italian Military Operations Abroad
Peace support operations are one of the most important tools in the foreign policy of Western democracies. This book is a study of Italian military operations in the last twenty years. Italy's operati
Italy
Party organisational change in Italy (1991–2006)
This article analyses, adopting the well-known approach of Katz and Mair, the issue of organizational change within Italian political parties since 1990. In addition to an account of trends in membership, local units, finances, staff, and of changes in party statutes, the article aims at testing the widespread view in the literature that organizational resources–hence power–are becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of party and/or parl…
Italy
Analysis of the main political events in Italy in the year 2009
Italy
Analysis of the main political events in Italy in the year 2008
New Parties in Government: In Power for the First Time
il lavoro analizza i mutamenti di due partiti esclusi da sempre dal governo (MSI/AN e PCI/PDS) per comprendere se i loro mutamenti sono all'origine del accesso al governo
Partiti politici in Italia
Il libro delinea i cambiamenti nella classe dirigente, nei riferimenti ideologico-culturali, nell'elettorato e nell'organizzazione, degli otto maggiori partiti italiani, dagli anni novanta al 2007
Italy
Italy
The silent counter-revolution: Hypotheses on the emergence of extreme right-wing parties in Europe
This article has two aims. The first attempts to define the 'extreme right'political family. The three criteria adopted - spatial, historic-ideological, attitudinal-systemic - have led us to identify two types of the extreme right party. One type comprises parties with a fascist imprint (old right-wing parties); the other comprises recently-born parties with no fascist associations, but with a right-wing antisystem attitude (new right-wing partie…
The four knights of intra-party democracy: A rescue for party delegitimation
This article discusses the state of agony parties are experiencing today. In a nutshell, I argue that parties are now at pains to retain their linkages with society, and that the compensation they envisaged has further damaged them. To respond to sociocultural and economic changes which had weakened parties both in their organizational standing and in their public reputation, parties took a dual route: They went to the state to acquire financial …
The Crisis of Parties and the Rise of New Political Parties
This paper has a twofold aim: to disentangle the question of party decline, analysing the current meanings and the empirical evidence offered by the literature; to highlight the different and even opposite outcomes of such decline. As far as the party crisis is concerned, contrary to a shared knowledge it is difficult to give a final word. It is suggested that the crisis concerns more a type of party rather than the party per se. Second, the chal…
Power and the (il)legitimacy of political parties: An unavoidable paradox of contemporary democracy
This article presents an interpretation of the present malaise that afflicts the political party in established democracies. Today, parties are not only seen as inefficient or unscrupulous instruments, they are increasingly being labelled as illegitimate. The basic reason for this bad reputation lies in their detachment from society and their encroachment on the state. Parties tried to counteract the difficulties they faced in extracting resource…
Legitimation and Evolution on the Italian Right Wing: Social and Ideological Repositioning of Alleanza Nazionale and the Lega Nord
2005). Legitimation and Evolution on the Italian Right Wing: Social and Ideological Repositioning of Alleanza Nazionale and the Lega Nord. South European Society and Politics: Vol. 10, The South European Right in the 21st Century: Italy, France and Spain (Guest Editor: Jocelyn A.J. Evans), pp. 333-349
The intellectual basis of right‐wing anti‐partyism
This paper shows the long and prestigious intellectual tradition of anti‐party arguments. Even before political parties emerged as unitary political actors, there were already well‐developed arguments with which to express hostility towards them. The emphasis on unity and harmony in Western civilization moulded political thought. While this cultural framework was broken in the brief but extraordinarily powerful experience of the Medieval Italian …
New and old extreme right parties: The French Front National and the Italian Movimento Sociale
The French and Italian extreme right parties ‐ Front National (FN) and Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) ‐ seem to belong to two different traditions of contemporary right radicalism. The analysis of survey data from both parties'middle level elites, dealing with the level of political experience, the degree of integration/alienation vis‐à‐vis the political system and the value system confirms that the FN and the MSI do indeed belong to two differ…
L'estrema destra in Europa
Extreme right‐wing parties in Europe: Introduction
The failure of mainstream parties and the impact of new challenger parties in France, Italy and Spain
Political parties share a very bad reputation in most European countries. This paper provides an interpretation of this sentiment, reconstructing the downfall of the esteem in which parties were held and their fall since the post-war years up to present. In particular, the paper focuses on the abandonment of the parties' founding ‘logic of appropriateness’ based, on the one hand, on the ethics for collective engagement in collective environments …
From Neo‐fascists to Post‐fascists? The Transformation of the Msi Into the An
This article analyses the recent transformation of the Italian neo‐Fascist party (Movimento Sociale Italiano‐ Italian Social Movement). The new party established by the former MSI, Alleanza nazionale (National Alliance), has been defined by its founders and many observers as a 'post‐Fascist' party. This article tries to highlight the continuities and the changes that are manifested in the new party. This goal is achieved by framing the recent eve…
Votes and Votive Candles: Modernization, Secularization, Vatican II, and the Decline of Religious Voting in Italy: 1953–1992
The authors examine the effects of modernization and secularization on the vote for the religious party in the Italian First Republic (1948–1992). In addition to modernization and secularization, they also introduce two new factors to the analysis: the importance of institutionalized Church and effects of the Church’s Vatican II reforms. Italy is of particular relevance because of the centrality of the Catholic religion in the Italian society and…
La Cultura Politica Del Movimento Sociale Italiano
IntroduzioneIl mondo politico-culturale della destra italiana del dopoguerra è stato trascurato, per lungo tempo, dalla comunità scientifica. A parte il pionieristico lavoro di Giorgio Galli, risalente alla metà degli anni settanta, è soltanto con l'inizio di questo decennio che si sviluppa una seria linea di ricerca su alcune componenti della destra italiana. In particolare, per motivi diversi, vengono privilegiati due versanti: la Nuova Destra …
The End of Cornucopia: Party Financing after the Great Recession
This article investigates the dimension and evolution of the financing of political parties. It focuses on 28 parties in the five major European countries (Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain), analysing the parties’ budgets from 2002 to 2016. The article's assessment shows that the availability of funds increased until the beginning of the Great Recession (2008), and then decreased, mainly due to a decline in public support for parties. Diminished…
Political data in 2005
Religion, Rurality and Voting: Secularisation, Landownership and Italian Electoral Behaviour, 1953–2008
This paper analyses the impact of socioeconomic and religious factors in explaining the long-run electoral decay of the dominant party in Italy’s so-called “First Republic” (the Catholic Dc), and the emergence of the regional autonomous Lega Nord-Northern League on the Dc’s debris. On the basis of a unique data set collected by the authors this paper examines: a) the effects of modernization and secularization of the Dc electoral dénouement with …
Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe
The extreme right has consolidated its presence across Western Europe. This book presents a compilation of studies on the ideological meanings and political/partisan expressions of the extreme right, their post-war evolution, and the reasons behind the success and failure of various parties. It highlights the rise of a new type of parties that are anti-system rather than neo-fascist.
Italy
Italy
Analysis of the main political events in Italy in the year 2004
Italy
Class, religion and socialist parties: The unpredicted effect of (a)religious voting
In recent years, academic literature has stressed the declining importance of social class and religion as determinants of vote. In particular, many scholars have found that the working-class vote is no longer mostly addressed to socialist parties, whereas religious people still massively support confessional and conservative parties. This article explores the actual resilience of the two cleavages with particular attention to the relationship be…
Sartori’s party system typology and the Italian case: The unanticipated outcome of a polarised pluralism without anti-system parties
In this article we discuss Sartori’s party system typology and its eventual applicability to the Italian post-1994 party system. The first part of the article is devoted to an examination of the typology with particular reference to the case of the polarised pluralism which Sartori considered appropriate for the Italian party system until the late 1970s-early 1980s. In the discussion of the typology, particular attention has been attributed to th…
Italy
Analysis of the Italian political and institutional events with particular reference to the evolution of the party system the results of elections and the composition of the national government
Italy
Italy
Cousins ou frères? Attitudes politiques et conceptions du parti chez les militants socialistes français et italiens
Au-delà d'un fond commun, et de divergences internes par tendance, les militants français et italiens se séparent nettement, au plan des orientations politiques et à celui des conceptions de l'action partisane. Par exemple, les militants du PSI ont une approche économique marquée par l'économie libérale, ceux du PS adhèrent aux conceptions socialistes traditionnelles. Le PS intègre plus volontiers que le PSI des thèmes venus de la gauche «nouvell…
La Cultura Politica Del Movimento Sociale Italiano
IntroduzioneIl mondo politico-culturale della destra italiana del dopoguerra è stato trascurato, per lungo tempo, dalla comunità scientifica. A parte il pionieristico lavoro di Giorgio Galli, risalente alla metà degli anni settanta, è soltanto con l'inizio di questo decennio che si sviluppa una seria linea di ricerca su alcune componenti della destra italiana. In particolare, per motivi diversi, vengono privilegiati due versanti: la Nuova Destra …
Attori E Valori Nella Trasformazione Del Pci
IntroduzioneIl recente passaggio da partito comunista a partito democratico della sinistra costituisce un interessante case study del mutamento di partito. In questo lavoro cercheremo di rispondere a due interrogativi di fondo: come si è sviluppata e chi ha favorito la trasformazione e quali sono i tratti valoriali caratterizzanti dei quadri intermedi al momento dell'accettazione del mutamento del Pci in Pds
Nuovi E Vecchi Partiti Di Estrema Destra in Europa
Introduzione I sistemi di partito dell'Europa occidentale stanno attraversando una fase di trasformazioni (Crewe and Denver 1985, Dalton, 1988, Dalton et al. 1984, Daalder e Mair 1983, Mair 1984, 1989a, 1989b, Wolinetz 1988). Questa trasformazione è individuabile a due diversi livelli di analisi, elettorale e partitico
Extreme right‐wing parties in Europe: Introduction
New and old extreme right parties: The French Front National and the Italian Movimento Sociale
The French and Italian extreme right parties ‐ Front National (FN) and Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) ‐ seem to belong to two different traditions of contemporary right radicalism. The analysis of survey data from both parties'middle level elites, dealing with the level of political experience, the degree of integration/alienation vis‐à‐vis the political system and the value system confirms that the FN and the MSI do indeed belong to two differ…
The silent counter-revolution: Hypotheses on the emergence of extreme right-wing parties in Europe
This article has two aims. The first attempts to define the 'extreme right'political family. The three criteria adopted - spatial, historic-ideological, attitudinal-systemic - have led us to identify two types of the extreme right party. One type comprises parties with a fascist imprint (old right-wing parties); the other comprises recently-born parties with no fascist associations, but with a right-wing antisystem attitude (new right-wing partie…
Italy
Italy
La force des racines: La culture politique du Mouvement social italien au seuil du gouvernement
La force des racines : la culture politique du Mouvement social italien au seuil du gouvernement. Piero Ignazi. Le Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), traditionnel représentant de l'extrême droite italienne, qui a pris lors des élections législatives du 27 mars 1994 le nom de Alleanza Nazionale (AN), a récemment fait une percée électorale et politique significative. Son succès électoral et sa participation au gouvernement Berlusconi tiennent à des …
L'estrema destra in Europa
Italy
Italy
From Neo‐fascists to Post‐fascists? The Transformation of the Msi Into the An
This article analyses the recent transformation of the Italian neo‐Fascist party (Movimento Sociale Italiano‐ Italian Social Movement). The new party established by the former MSI, Alleanza nazionale (National Alliance), has been defined by its founders and many observers as a 'post‐Fascist' party. This article tries to highlight the continuities and the changes that are manifested in the new party. This goal is achieved by framing the recent eve…
The Crisis of Parties and the Rise of New Political Parties
This paper has a twofold aim: to disentangle the question of party decline, analysing the current meanings and the empirical evidence offered by the literature; to highlight the different and even opposite outcomes of such decline. As far as the party crisis is concerned, contrary to a shared knowledge it is difficult to give a final word. It is suggested that the crisis concerns more a type of party rather than the party per se. Second, the chal…
The intellectual basis of right‐wing anti‐partyism
This paper shows the long and prestigious intellectual tradition of anti‐party arguments. Even before political parties emerged as unitary political actors, there were already well‐developed arguments with which to express hostility towards them. The emphasis on unity and harmony in Western civilization moulded political thought. While this cultural framework was broken in the brief but extraordinarily powerful experience of the Medieval Italian …
Italy
The Organization of Political Parties in Southern Europe
This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive anaysis of the organization of the major political parties of France, Spain, Italy, and Greece. Conceived and framed with a common theoretical approach, four national teams of researchers followed a structural approach to the study of party organization, and they have underlined the various characteristics of the parties. The party analyses are not limited, however, to the usual measures of party orga…
Italy
The PCI between 1948 and 1956: Four perspectives on vol. VII of the storia del PCI
Giovanni Gozzini and Renzo Martinelli (1998) Storia del Partito comunista ‘italiano. VII. Dall'attentato a Togliatti all'VIII Congresso (Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore), pp. i‐xviii, 1–659, 80,000 lire. The publication of the seventh volume of the ‘History of the Italian Communist Party’ is a noteworthy event. In the party's often tumultuous history, few periods were as difficult as the one covered in this volume: 1948–56 embraces the crushing def…
Italy
Italy
Italy
The Extreme Right
This chapter aims at surveying the current terminology of the “extreme/radical/populist right parties,” stipulating criteria for the identification of such parties as a “party family” with its internal differiations, and underlining a set of hypotheses on these parties’ development with particular emphasis on the “political factors” and the general (Europe-wide) and particular (country-specific) timing.
Italy
Political science (54 works) · Politics (40 works) · Law (39 works) · Law (32 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (23 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · History (20 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · History (19 works)