ITALIAN POLITICS SPECIALIST GROUP – 2021 PSA CONFERENCE
26 - 31 March 2021
ITALY BEFORE AND AFTER COVID-19: OLD AND NEW DIMENSIONS OF COMPETITION
Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 9:30am - 11:00am
Chair: D. Vampa (d.vampa@aston.ac.uk)
• Science, Trust and the Covid-19 Threath. Did Italians Change Their Attitudes? – A. Seddone (antonella.seddone@unito.it), R. Benetti (riccardo.benetti@swg.it), G. Bobba (giuliano.bobba@unito.it), R. Fonda (rado.fonda@swg.it), M. Pessato (maurizio.pessato@swg.it)
• When Dimensions of Discontent Align: Approving the 2020 Italian Constitutional Referendum – M. Bergman (mebergma@ucsd.edu), G. Passarelli (gianluca.passarelli@uniroma1.it)
• The Challenge of Covid-19 in Italy: the Digital Response of Giuseppe Conte – L. Rullo (luigi.rullo@unina.it), F. Nunziata (federica.nunziata@unina.it)
• Beyond Second Order Election Expectations. Nationalization/Localization in the Italian regional Elections (2018-2020) – S. Bolgherini (silvia.bolgherini@unipg.it), S. Grimaldi (Selena.grimaldi@unipd.it), A. Paparo (apaparo@luiss.it)
ITALIAN POLITICS BETWEEN OLD AND NEW CHALLENGES: IMMIGRATION AND DISSATISFACTION WITH POLITICS
Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 11:15am - 12:45pm
Chair: A. Seddone (antonella.seddone@unito.it)
• The Growing Electoral Success of Established Radical Right Political Parties in Western Europe. A Comparison Between the Italian League and the French National Rally – A. Scopelliti (as17191@bristol.ac.uk)
• Securitization of Islam from the Right to the Left. Ideological Translations and Populist Discourses in Italian Politics – U. Gaudino (u.m.gaudino@kent.ac.uk)
• The Crisis of Political Representation - Young Voters as a Rescue? The Case of Greece and Italy – I. Bokszczanin (ibokszczanin@uw.edu.pl), M. Lorencka (malgorzata.lorencka@us.edu.pl)
PANEL2: UNFRIEND THE EU? UNDERSTANDING THE SHIFT TOWARDS EUROSCEPTICISM IN ITALY: ITALY VS. EU
Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Chair: A. Seddone (antonella.seddone@unito.it)
• An Analysis of the Visual Political Communication for the 2019 European Campaign - Ms. E. Garzonio (emma.garzonio@uniroma1.it)
• Italexit, a Hypothetical Italian Referendum. How Italians’ Attitudes Could Affect the European Union Membership – M. De Luca (m.de-luca@sussex.ac.uk)
• EU Elections in the South Approaching 21st Century Results – D. Quattromani (dario.quattromani@uniroma3.it), R. De Rosa (roberto.derosa@unicusano.it)
PANEL1: THE SURVIVAL OF THE MASS PARTY? DISCUSSING PARTY ORGANISATION AMONG POPULIST RADICAL RIGHT PARTIES (PRRPS) IN EUROPE
Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Chair: D. Albertazzi (d.albertazzi@bham.ac.uk)
• Populist Logic in the Hybrid Media System: How the Finns Party Became an Organizational Vehicle for the Finnish Radical Right – N. Hatakka (nthata@utu.fi)
• Assessing Efforts of Centralisation and Internal Coherence in Populist Parties: The Case of the Swiss People’s Party – A. Favero. (A.Favero@ed.ac.uk)
• Populist Leadership in Times of Decline and Growth: Influence and Organisational Control Among Elites in the Vlaams Belang – J. Sijstermans (udith.sijstermans@ed.ac.uk)
• Restructuring a Mainstream Populist Party: the New Organisational Course of the Lega Under Salvini’s Leadership – M. Zulianello (mattia.zulianello@gmail.com)
PSA-IPSG BUSINESS MEETING
Wednesday, 31 March 2021, 2:30 and 3:30pm
Link: https://meet.google.com/mcn-bsir-ohv
All times are British times (GMT +0).
