This book examines the controversial success of the new Italian Right, exploring its implications for the Italian democratic system and assessing how the social and political peculiarities of Italy have allowed such groups to prosper.

Provides a comprehensive discussion of the three main parties of the Italian right - Berlusconi's Forza Italia, the xenophobic and regionalist populist Northern League and the post-fascist National Alliance. This book assesses the implications of this controversial right for the Italian democratic system.