The populist revolution and the fight against inequality. The Conte government between the ‘<i>quota cento</i>’ and the ‘citizens’ income’

Giugliano, Ferdinando

doi:10.1080/23248823.2019.1646002

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“…In contrast, Quota 100 targets categories of workers whose rights are already guaranteed, consistent with the right-wing interest in protecting existing privileges, even at the expense of other weaker social categories. Despite the government's claims about the effectiveness of the measures for redistributive purposes, economists argue that both would likely produce negative effects on the Italian economic balance without affecting the real problems of the Italian labor market (for an exhaustive analysis, see Giugliano 2019).…”

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Modern Forms of Populism and Social Policies: Personal Values, Populist Attitudes, and Ingroup Definitions in Support of Left-Wing and Right-Wing Welfare Policies in Italy

Miglietta

Loera

2021

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We analyzed the relationship between modern forms of populism and citizen support for exclusive welfare policies and proposals, and we focused on support for left-wing- and right-wing-oriented welfare policies enacted or proposed during the Lega Nord (LN)–Five Star Movement (FSM) government in Italy (2018–2019). In light of the theoretical perspective of political ideology as motivated by social cognition, we examined citizens’ support for the two policies considering adherence to populist attitudes, agreement on the criteria useful to define ingroup membership, and personal values. We also took into account the role of cognitive sophistication in populism avoidance. A total of 785 Italian adults (F = 56.6; mean age = 35.8) completed an online survey in the summer of 2019 based on the following: support for populist policies and proposals, political ideologies and positioning, personal values, and ingroup boundaries. We used correlation and regression analyses. The results highlight the relationships between populism and political conservatism. Populism was related to the vertical and horizontal borders defining the “people”; cognitive sophistication was not a relevant driver. We identified some facilitating factors that could promote adherence to and support for public policies inspired by the values of the right or of the left, without a true ideological connotation.

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Modern Forms of Populism and Social Policies: Personal Values, Populist Attitudes, and Ingroup Definitions in Support of Left-Wing and Right-Wing Welfare Policies in Italy

Miglietta

Loera

2021

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“…As mentioned, the Conte government set about reversing entrenched policy paradigms on both pensions and poverty (Giugliano 2019). However, this overall parallelism masks very significant differences between the political rationales of the two reforms.…”

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Bread or Circuses? Repoliticization in the Italian Populist Government Experience

Baldini

Giglioli

2020

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The majority view within political science is that populism is best understood as a (thin) ideology. We problematize the ideational approach by broadening the scope of analysis, linking populism to the rise of long-term generalized anti-political sentiments, against interpretations that tend to tie the populist wave to conjunctural factors related to recent crises. We argue that the essence of populism lies at the intersection of the ‘material constitution’ of advanced industrial democracies (that is, how macroeconomic governance relates to democratic decision-making) and the feelings of societal alienation that are at the heart of anti-political sentiments. We show the peculiar coexistence of economic turbulence, heralded by the crisis of the cartel party and of the neoliberal economic consensus, and an appeal to a post-democratic ‘virtual politics’ of performed but ineffectual popular sovereignty. The policies of the populist coalition governing Italy in 2018–19 provide a key case to test the relevance of our arguments.

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The populist revolution and the fight against inequality. The Conte government between the ‘quota cento’ and the ‘citizens’ income’

Cited by 2 publications

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Modern Forms of Populism and Social Policies: Personal Values, Populist Attitudes, and Ingroup Definitions in Support of Left-Wing and Right-Wing Welfare Policies in Italy

Modern Forms of Populism and Social Policies: Personal Values, Populist Attitudes, and Ingroup Definitions in Support of Left-Wing and Right-Wing Welfare Policies in Italy

Bread or Circuses? Repoliticization in the Italian Populist Government Experience

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