Data di Pubblicazione:
2023
Citazione:
Can the left respond to new cleavages in Italy? / N. Pasini, L.M. Fasano, G. Cerutti. - In: JOURNAL OF MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES. - ISSN 1354-571X. - (2023), pp. 2-15. [Epub ahead of print] [10.1080/1354571X.2023.2241262]
Abstract:
Over the last forty years, there has been a mounting societal shift towards post materialist values in all countries adhering to the democratic tradition. This has
fuelled demand for increasingly personalized content, reflected in political and
electoral preferences that, shaped by new agencies of socialization, have gra dually distanced themselves from former loyalties. The political supply has been
reorganized as a result. The old mass parties have morphed into the so-called
catch all party and the more recent variations of the professional-electoral
party, forced to drum up votes however it can, chiefly by concocting new issues
to compensate for the weakening of traditional subcultures and the fact that
the social groups and classes that were the mainstay of twentieth-century
parties have now exited the scene. In Italy, this process has led to a political
system that is – to say the least – fragmented and unstable. Taken as a whole,
the Italian left is even harder pressed than other European lefts, though they too
have shown themselves incapable in recent years of sensing the changing pulse
and adapting to the new milieu and how it will affect the left’s legacy in terms of
the industrial conflict between capital and labour. This is a cleavage that has
marked the platforms of liberal-democratic political systems and the form that
parties accordingly take even more than it has affected their value content. The
Italian left’s perennially upwelling legacy has thus prevented it from retooling
for a changing society and formulating policies that can build a solid voter base
by interpreting the expectations of the more moderate portions of the electo rate who, though sceptical about the centre-right coalition, harbour even
greater doubts concerning the centre-left’s ability to actually govern.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
individualization; Italian left; new cleavages; political parties; post-materialist values; social citizenship; individualizzazione; sinistra italiana; nuove fratture socio-politiche; partiti politici; valori post-materialisti; cittadinanza sociale;
Elenco autori:
N. Pasini, L.M. Fasano, G. Cerutti
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