Contemporary Italian Politics | Volume 16, Issue 2 (2024)

Summary:

This journal issue focuses on the politics in Italy in 2024, and notably on the post-Berlusconi centre-right and the challenge of government.

Table of Contents:

• Editorial. Italian politics and the European Parliament elections of 2024 | James L. Newell
• Introduction. The post-Berlusconi centre right and the challenge of governing | Catherine Moury & Andrea Pritoni
• The many political legacies of Silvio Berlusconi | Gianfranco Baldini & Sofia Ventura
• The (new) Democratic Party: ideology, values and strategies of sympathizers, members and delegates | Paola Bordandini, Bruno Marino, Laura Sartori & Antonella Seddone
• Elly versus Giorgia? The political leadership of Elly Schlein and Giorgia Meloni between myth and reality | Alessia Donà
• The Meloni government in the context of the ‘smaller’ parliament: new programmes, old equipment | Alice Cavalieri, Francesco Marangoni & Michelangelo Vercesi
• The Meloni government and the challenge of ecological transition | Eugenio Pizzimenti
• The ‘pragmatic’ foreign policy of the Meloni government: between ‘Euro-nationalism’, Atlanticism and Mediterranean activism | Nicolò Fasola & Sonia Lucarelli
• Constrained economic policy in Italy’s dual-hybrid economy | Donato Di Carlo & Marco Simoni
• Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigration | Gabriel Echeverría & Claudia Finotelli
• The arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro and the effort to combat organised crime | Lorenzo Picarella & Rocco Sciarrone