Economic imaginaries andbeyond. A cultural political economy perspective on the League party

Right-Wing Populism and the Trade-Off Between Health and the Economy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison Between Western Europe and the United States

“…The SVP is traditionally seen as a market-oriented right-wing party, while the RN and, more recently, the German AfD and Fratelli d'Italia are, to some extent, closer to the economic left (Otjes et al, 2018: 285;Fenger, 2018: 197). In Italy, Salvini's Lega is both market liberal and protectionist (Albertazzi, Giovannini and Seddone, 2018;Caterina, 2021), while in the US, Trump's socioeconomic policies were a mix of traditional conservative and more distinctively left-leaning interventionist and anti-trade positions (Steger, 2019).…”