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In ambito politico, l'appello al popolo si focalizza sul principio di unità, di legittimità e potere sovrano. In Italia, il caso della Lega Nord mostra un processo di costruzione di un popolo "simbolico" accompagnato da molteplici categorie "dell'altro" in grado di variare nel tempo. Il "popolo" leghista si è fatto dapprima portatore di...

The Front national (FN) has established itself as a major force in French politics since the mid-1980s. The French FN epitomizes the mobilization strategy of the West European populist radical right, which combines ethno-nationalist xenophobia with anti-establishment populism. This potent ideological frame has allowed the party to win between...

This paper examines the voting behaviour of Eurosceptic parties within the European Parliament (EP). Voting behaviour of legislators is a relevant topic in legislative studies and party politics as well. In literature, there are two different sets of explanation for voting cohesion among groups in the European Parliament (EPG). Kreppel (2002)...

This paper explores the development of four electorally consolidated populist parties, i.e. the Italian FSM and Northern League, Podemos in Spain and the French FN. Adopting a supply-side approach based on the 'thin-ideology' paradigm, we propose a fine-grained analysis of the populist claims by those parties comparatively. We argue in...

With a specific focus on the 2015 regional elections, this paper looks comparatively at the territorial dimension of FN national populist politics across two French regions, namely NPDCP and PACA, where the FN achieved its best electoral performances in 2015. Taking both the supply and demand sides of FN politics in France, it seeks to assess...