Political Party Funding and Private Donations in Italy

Chiara Fiorelli author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:12th Sep '21

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Political Party Funding and Private Donations in Italy cover

Despite any evidence against it, political parties still represent the most important collective actor in a democratic political system. Their role in representing pluralism and their electoral centrality is not undermined, even when it is strongly questioned. As long as political parties can be understood as representative actors articulating political demands, this book focuses on the capacity of Italian political parties to mobilize resources and financial resources in particular. Through the analysis of private financial donations to political parties, a neglected source of information that will be fundamental in the near future, the author assesses their connective capability with specific interests’ representatives in the last decades in order to provide evidence of their changing representational role as collective actors.

“It takes a much greater effort to establish some basic numbers than in other areas of political science. Theoretically, political finance has often been isolated from the centre of political science and, indeed, from the centre of any other discipline. Chiara Fiorelli’s excellent book overcomes these challenges to provide us with a slew of basic data that contribute to one of the defining debates of European political science. … This is a vital book for political finance and party organization scholars.” (Iain McMenamin, Italian Political Science Review, February 7, 2022)

ISBN: 9783030738686

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 357g

156 pages

1st ed. 2021