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.

This title 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.

'By combining a clearly developed theoretical framework with indepth empirical analysis based on appropriate methodology, it makes important contributions to our understanding of contemporary Italian politics, populism and populist parties, and the state of European democracy, and is a 'must read' for both students and scholars interested in these issues.' - South European Society and Politics, Vol. 15, No. 2, June 2010, 320