IAI Istituto Affari Internazionali
Published on IAI Istituto Affari Internazionali (https://www.iai.it)

Home > Direct Democracy and Scapegoats

Direct Democracy and Scapegoats [1]

The International Spectator [2]

Direct Democracy and Scapegoats: The Five Star Movement and Europe

Autori:
Piergiorgio Corbetta [3]
Rinaldo Vignati [4]
28/03/2014

Italy is one the most europhile countries in the European Union. Nevertheless, as surveys show, over the last few years anti-European sentiments have increasingly surfaced among Italian citizens. Furthermore, there is now an important novelty regarding the relation between Italy and Europe: the Five Star Movement, a new party that expresses a peculiar and contradictory position towards Europe. Its leader, Beppe Grillo, sometimes advocates more, not less, unification, but he also proposes a referendum on Italian membership of the euro. Moreover, Grillo's blog frequently lends its voice to the choir of openly anti-European sentiment. Indeed, Grillo's call for direct democracy is plebiscitarian and his positions contribute to the weakening of a European project that is already facing grave difficulties of its own.

Keywords: populism, euroscepticism, Five Star Movement, Beppe Grillo

Dettagli

  • Dati bibliografici

    p. 53-64
  • In:
    The International Spectator [2]
  • Numero

    49/1
  • ISBN/ISSN/DOI:
    10.1080/03932729.2014.875822

Link esterni

Buy this article online [5]

Source URL:https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/c10/direct-democracy-and-scapegoats

Collegamenti
[1] https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/c10/direct-democracy-and-scapegoats [2] https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/lista/all/international-spectator [3] https://www.iai.it/it/persone/piergiorgio-corbetta [4] https://www.iai.it/it/persone/rinaldo-vignati [5] http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2014.875822