Focusing on the Italian Right today – and advancing fine-tuned analytical instruments to grasp its multilayered complexity – is no easy task. The ideological ambiguity of the Right, a consistent merger of ideological components and policy decisions against the background of accelerated neoliberalism, influence on agenda setting and exclusionary/inclusionary issues, multilayered mainstreaming of ex...
Valerio Alfonso Bruno - The Italian Right Today
The Italian Right Today
Narratives, Ideologies, Policies
Valerio Alfonso Bruno, Daniela Caterina
Description
Focusing on the Italian Right today – and advancing fine-tuned analytical instruments to grasp its multilayered complexity – is no easy task. The ideological ambiguity of the Right, a consistent merger of ideological components and policy decisions against the background of accelerated neoliberalism, influence on agenda setting and exclusionary/inclusionary issues, multilayered mainstreaming of extreme ideological and political elements, as well as the consolidation and continuous adjustment of Eurosceptical positions are here to stay, and point to relevant trends requiring further cross-disciplinary avenues for research to make sense of the Italian Right today – and tomorrow.