The rise of the Radical Right in Italy: the case of Fratelli d’Italia

Donà, Alessia

doi:10.1080/1354571x.2022.2113216

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“…Differently, during the two governments, Fratelli d’Italia continued to exploit the full potential of the immigration-pandemic relationship as a dimension on which criticize the work of both governments and affirming its slogans. Being the only party in opposition allowed to maintain its own radical right political discourse depicting itself as the only party acting in the people’s interest, opposing the elite, thus increasing its electoral support while Lega and Forza Italia declined (Donà, 2022; Zanotti and Meléndez, 2023).…”

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‘Italians locked at home, illegal migrants free to disembark’: How populist parties re-contextualized the anti-immigration discourse at the time of COVID-19 pandemic

Lucchesi

Romania

2023

Discourse & Society

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By drawing on a Critical Discourse Studies perspective, we analyze language and discursive strategies used by 36 Italian populist right-wing politicians in constructing the narration of immigration during the covid-19 period on their Facebook pages, combining Corpus Linguistics and the analysis of the discursive argumentation. The main aim is to verify a potential discursive construction between immigration and the spread of the virus also considering the change of the government and the role assumed by different parties. Results suggest that the connection between migration and pandemic has not been traduced in a discourse able to systematically blame migrants as vehicles for the virus, rather politicians operated a re-contextualization of past discursive strategies based on the ‘us’ versus ‘them’ dichotomy. Moreover, lexicon and argumentative analysis identified interesting differences between parties especially with the change of government and the new conformation of the alliance. The article shows elements of continuity concerning the political discourse on immigration, but it also stressed important outputs concerning the politicization process showing that pandemic constitutes a critical ‘politicizing moment’ that operated as a mechanism of further normalization of anti-immigration discourse.

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‘Italians locked at home, illegal migrants free to disembark’: How populist parties re-contextualized the anti-immigration discourse at the time of COVID-19 pandemic

Lucchesi

Romania

2023

Discourse & Society

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“…Notably, although on issues the 2022 Italian electorate has been a left-leaning one overall, it was also more concerned with immigration flow management and economic stability, particularly the energy crisis, than with other issues. Additional factors underpinning Meloni's success may lie in the increased citizens' discontent towards incumbents, especially during crises (Bojar et al 2022), parties' mobilisation capabilities (Donà 2022;Pirro 2022), and the role of her leadership in an increasingly personalised politics (Marino et al 2022;Musella 2022). In particular, the salience of some specific issues and the leaders' credibility to tackle them could have played the lion's share in such a public opinion environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

Voters, issues, and party loyalty: the 2022 Italian election under the magnifying glass

Improta

Mannoni²,

Marcellino³

et al. 2022

QOE-IJES

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The 2022 Italian election marked a historic victory for the centre-right coalition. This camp was spearheaded by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FDI), with a solid performance of this radical right party across the country. However, considerable nuance emerges by looking at different aspects of the vote, which we do by leveraging original data from the pre-electoral wave of the 2022 CISE/ICCP survey. After recapping both the build-up to and results of the election, we employ this data on these specific fronts. First, we analyse vote flows between the 2018 and 2022 elections in three big cities in Northern, Central, and Southern Italy: Turin, Florence, and Naples. This analysis shows that FDI becomes more competitive in these traditionally unfavourable contexts, although less so in Naples. Second, we analyse data on the configuration of Italian voters’ preferences, which reveals an increasingly progressive electorate in an apparent contradiction with the election results. Third and final, we go deeper into the demand-side picture by assessing the role of sociodemographic characteristics over vote choice, presenting the voter profile of the five largest parties: the three main centre-right parties, the Democratic Party, and the Five Star Movement. Overall, the findings that emerge from our article enhance a more fine-grained understanding of this crucial election in Italy.

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“…This is different, however, for right-of-centre parties that may be either more focused on the 'traditional-authoritarian-nationalist' (e.g. Hooghe, Marks and Wilson 2002) socio-cultural issues of immigration, identity and security, as in the case of RRPs (Mudde 2007;Donà 2022), or more oriented towards neoliberal, free-market economic stances, in the case of mainstream centre-right formations (e.g. Paolucci 2008).…”

Section: Historical Background: the 2022 Italian Electionmentioning

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What's new under the sun? A corpus linguistic analysis of the 2022 Italian election campaign themes in party manifestos

Trastulli,

Mastroianni

2023

Mod. Italy

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In this article, we introduce an innovative approach to examining campaign themes in Italy, by performing an original corpus linguistic analysis of the party manifestos related to the crucial 2022 election. Through its systematicity and flexibility, our approach allows us to gauge theory-driven propositions using a large amount of so far unexplored textual data. As anticipated, the 2022 Italian party manifestos are characterised by a somewhat balanced configuration of emphasis across a variety of themes, of which some are more controversial and others more widely shared among voters and parties. Further, we also corroborate that parties primarily focus on those themes that historically fit them best, ideologically and in terms of perceived competence. Lastly, salient ‘issues of the day’ are differently emphasised by Italian parties, which particularly avoid devoting considerable attention to the highly sensitive Russian-Ukrainian war.

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The rise of the Radical Right in Italy: the case of Fratelli d’Italia

Cited by 40 publications

References 33 publications

‘Italians locked at home, illegal migrants free to disembark’: How populist parties re-contextualized the anti-immigration discourse at the time of COVID-19 pandemic

‘Italians locked at home, illegal migrants free to disembark’: How populist parties re-contextualized the anti-immigration discourse at the time of COVID-19 pandemic

Voters, issues, and party loyalty: the 2022 Italian election under the magnifying glass

What's new under the sun? A corpus linguistic analysis of the 2022 Italian election campaign themes in party manifestos

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