Book contents
- Riding the Populist Wave
- Riding the Populist Wave
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 The Mainstream Right in Western Europe: Caught between the Silent Revolution and Silent Counter-Revolution
- 2 The Demand Side: Profiling the Electorate of the Mainstream Right in Western Europe since the 2000s
- 3 The Supply Side: Mainstream Right Party Policy Positions in a Changing Political Space in Western Europe
- 4 Austria: Tracing the Christian Democrats’ Adaptation to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 5 France: Party System Change and the Demise of the Post-Gaullist Right
- 6 Germany: How the Christian Democrats Manage to Adapt to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 7 Italy: The Mainstream Right and its Allies, 1994–2018
- 8 The Netherlands: How the Mainstream Right Normalized the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 9 Spain: The Development and Decline of the Popular Party
- 10 Sweden: The Difficult Adaptation of the Moderates to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 11 The United Kingdom: The Conservatives and their Competitors in the post-Thatcher Era
- 12 The Mainstream Right in Western Europe in the Twenty-First Century
- References
- Index
7 - Italy: The Mainstream Right and its Allies, 1994–2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
- Riding the Populist Wave
- Riding the Populist Wave
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 The Mainstream Right in Western Europe: Caught between the Silent Revolution and Silent Counter-Revolution
- 2 The Demand Side: Profiling the Electorate of the Mainstream Right in Western Europe since the 2000s
- 3 The Supply Side: Mainstream Right Party Policy Positions in a Changing Political Space in Western Europe
- 4 Austria: Tracing the Christian Democrats’ Adaptation to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 5 France: Party System Change and the Demise of the Post-Gaullist Right
- 6 Germany: How the Christian Democrats Manage to Adapt to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 7 Italy: The Mainstream Right and its Allies, 1994–2018
- 8 The Netherlands: How the Mainstream Right Normalized the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 9 Spain: The Development and Decline of the Popular Party
- 10 Sweden: The Difficult Adaptation of the Moderates to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 11 The United Kingdom: The Conservatives and their Competitors in the post-Thatcher Era
- 12 The Mainstream Right in Western Europe in the Twenty-First Century
- References
- Index
Summary
The 2018 general elections marked a major defeat for the mainstream right in Italy. Scoring a mere 14 per cent, Forza Italia (Go Italy, FI) lost its primacy over the centre-right coalition. Excluded from the national government, the mainstream right finds itself – for the first time since 1994 – in a minority position within Italy’s political right. To understand whether this transformation reflects the tension faced by the mainstream right in coping with the silent revolution and counter-revolution, and with the migration policy challenge, this chapter reconstructs the relationship between the different components of the Italian centre-right over the past twenty-five years (1994-2018). Focusing on Berlusconi’s personalistic parties, its right-wing (populist) partners and Christian democratic allies, the chapter accounts for the demand-side and supply-side evolution of the Italian centre-right. The analyses point to the crucial role played by the issue of migration in shaping right-wing politics in Italy.
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- Riding the Populist WaveEurope's Mainstream Right in Crisis, pp. 170 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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