Italy at the polls. Four lessons to learn from the 2022 general election

IF 2.2 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Contemporary Italian Politics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1080/23248823.2022.2163453

Alessandro Chiaramonte

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Abstract

ABSTRACT On 25 September 2022, in an election that saw a record low turnout, the coalition of the centre-right emerged as the clear winner and Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) as the most-voted party. As a result, the centre-right political forces agreed to form a government headed by FdI’s leader, Giorgia Meloni, who became the first female Prime Minister in Italy’s history. The aim of this article is to gain a better understanding of the election outcome and of its implications for the transformation of the Italian party system. The main ‘lessons’ of the results have to do with voters increasingly dissatisfied with parties and prone to abstaining or to changing their vote choice, and with a party system that has become more polarized and de-institutionalized.

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意大利正在进行投票。从2022年大选中吸取的四个教训

摘要:2022年9月25日，在一场投票率创历史新低的选举中，中右翼联盟明显获胜，意大利兄弟党(FdI)成为得票最多的政党。结果，中右翼政治力量同意组建一个由外国直接投资领导人乔治娅·梅洛尼领导的政府，她成为意大利历史上第一位女总理。本文的目的是为了更好地理解选举结果及其对意大利政党制度转型的影响。选举结果的主要教训与选民对政党越来越不满，倾向于弃权或改变他们的投票选择，以及政党制度变得更加两极化和非制度化有关。

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Contemporary Italian Politics Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Italian Politics, formerly Bulletin of Italian Politics, is a political science journal aimed at academics and policy makers as well as others with a professional or intellectual interest in the politics of Italy. The journal has two main aims: Firstly, to provide rigorous analysis, in the English language, about the politics of what is one of the European Union’s four largest states in terms of population and Gross Domestic Product. We seek to do this aware that too often those in the English-speaking world looking for incisive analysis and insight into the latest trends and developments in Italian politics are likely to be stymied by two contrasting difficulties. On the one hand, they can turn to the daily and weekly print media. Here they will find information on the latest developments, sure enough; but much of it is likely to lack the incisiveness of academic writing and may even be straightforwardly inaccurate. On the other hand, readers can turn either to general political science journals – but here they will have to face the issue of fragmented information – or to specific journals on Italy – in which case they will find that politics is considered only insofar as it is part of the broader field of modern Italian studies[...] The second aim follows from the first insofar as, in seeking to achieve it, we hope thereby to provide analysis that readers will find genuinely useful. With research funding bodies of all kinds giving increasing emphasis to knowledge transfer and increasingly demanding of applicants that they demonstrate the relevance of what they are doing to non-academic ‘end users’, political scientists have a self-interested motive for attempting a closer engagement with outside practitioners.