ABSTRACT Whilst the Lega Nord has traditionally been defined as a regionalist populist
party, since Matteo Salvini became its leader in 2013 it has undergone a process of …

In liberal democracies, the relationship between politics and business, between the political
and economic powers, has been and remains exceptionally close. The state is understood …

This book offers a fascinating, thought-provoking and ground-breaking study of post-
communist political life. It is published just as the countries of Central and Eastern Europe …

Revised throughout, the second edition of this comprehensive and highly respected
textbook continues to provide a thorough introduction to European and European Union …

[Italy] treats the Padanian people as internal colonies whose economies can be exploited
and ethnicities subjugated.(Bossi in Lega Nord, 1997) Ours is the first book written for an …

Scholars in recent decades have discussed the emergence of a new leader-dominated party
type, variously described as 'personal','personalistic'and 'personalist'. However, there has …

This paper deals with the emergence and relevance of entrepreneurial parties in Slovakia.
Its aim is to identify if the business-firm party model is an isolated phenomenon within the …

Italy is depicted as a populist promised land. Especially within Western Europe, Italy is an
outlier in terms of support for and varieties of populist parties. Yet, common explanations of …

The article aims to retrace the transformations of the Lega Nord under the leadership of
Matteo Salvini by focusing on the analysis of key dimensions such as: the ideology and …

While the subject of populism receives increasing scholarly attention from both political
scientists and criminologists, so far these two bodies of literature have existed mostly in …