Anti-establishment voting and Euroscepticism: The case of Italy and the Five Star Movement
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https://doi.org/10.30722/anzjes.vol10.iss2.15195Keywords:
Anti-establishment, populist, Euroscepticism, European Union, Five Star Movement, ItalyAbstract
This paper explores the meaning of the Italian anti-establishment voting and whether the Five Star Movement’s anti-establishment label is appropriate. More specifically the investigation addresses the policies of the Five Star Movement towards the now creaking European Union, especially as growing Euroscepticism has been boosted by the Brexit referendum and the Trump dismissal and disdain for the European Union. In doing so, the paper examines the historic approach of so-called ‘anti- establishment’ parties that have had an almost ‘normal’ occurrence within the Italian political environment since the end of the Second World War. In this sense the paper concludes that addressing parties and systems as anti-establishment does little to help our understanding of this most fluid political period in Italy and across Europe.Downloads
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2021-02-07
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