Nationalism in Italian Politics

This book is the first full-length study available in English to trace the extraordinary history of the Italian Northern Leagues during the 1980s and 1990s. At a time when the postwar First Republic entered a crisis amid corruption scandals, the Leagues acted as one of the main protest actors and grew at an unprecedented rate. Drawing on electoral and survey data, existing research, eyewitness accounts of protest events and interviews with activists and leaders, this book provides the definitive account of the movement. Damian Tambini analyses why the movement was so successful in mobilising support, and focuses on its most novel aspect: its use of nationalism. The new regionalist movements in Northern Italy, which were unified into the Northern League in 1990, had a huge influence on Italian politics during the period

Archaeology · Economic history · League · Linguistics · Nationalism · Political action · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · 1976-1994 · 1994 · 1996 · Europe · Italy · Lega nord · Nationalisme · Northern · Northern Italy · Politics and government · politics and government