At #PSA25 in Birmingham we are proposing some exciting joint panels with the PSA Italian Politics GPSG Greek Politics and PSA Irish Politics on mainstreaming and relations between ‘mainstream’ and ‘challenger’ parties Find out more about what we’re looking for and how to submit your paper below 👇

📢CfP #PSA25 (Birmingham, April 2025) The Italian Politics Specialist Group is keen to receive country-specific and comparative proposals on any aspect of Italian politics. Submit your abstract on Ex-Ordo by 18 October and do not forget to tag us: psa.ac.uk/events/psa-ann…

We look forward to receiving your paper proposals on Italian politics 🇮🇹 for #PSA25

⚡️New article with Antonella Seddone. PRR parties in 🇮🇹 are perceived as threats to democracy by specific groups of non-PRR voters. Interestingly, FdI is considered to be a threat to democracy by the League’s sympathisers, but the opposite does not occur tandfonline.com/eprint/5BBRGHH…

If you would like to know more about #ECEC in Italy and Spain, please access our #openaccess article on SESP with David Palomera and Roberto Rizza tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Enjoy!!!

📣 Publication! Seddone & Mattia Zulianello discuss perceptions of democratic legitimacy of radical right parties in 🇮🇹

📢Publication! Valerio Alfonso Bruno 🇺🇦 James F. Downes & Alessio Scopelliti 🇺🇦 review the recent rise of the Italian radical right

📢Publication! Our co-convenor Donatella Bonansinga explores the visual de-demonisation of the radical right

📣📻 I spoke today on BBC News (World)⁩ Newsday about the far right racist violence sweeping UK towns and the role of social media in inciting and amplifying hatred- from 05:31 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

Proud to have made a small contribution to celebrating the work of the great Paul Ginsborg in this super volume

📢In our #NewIssue (28.4)!📢🇮🇹 Perceptions of populist radical right mainstreaming as a threat to democracy: evidence from Italian voters #PRR Read the article by A. Seddone & Mattia Zulianello #FreeAccess here 🆓 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Finally published on an issue (45:3). Feel free to share it! Sage Journals New theories and politics for working class organizing in the gig and precarious world of work - Maurizio Atzeni, Lorenzo Cini, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

🔔 While FdI leader Meloni and her brother-in-law and Minister Lollobrigida are vacationing in Puglia, I am happy to announce the publication of my new article co-authored with Piero Tortola (also bsky.social and @mastodon.uno) on how FdI manipulates collective memory 📖

Reminder CfP #PSA25!

Another call for papers for a joint panel at #PSA25! This time in partnership with PSA Italian Politics. Submit your abstracts for our panel "The anti-elite elite? The class forces and interests behind 'right-wing populism'"! Deadline: 18 October More info: psapopulism.org/events/rightwi…

The PSA Italian Politics welcomes your proposals on any aspects of Italian politics! We are also hosting joint panels with the German, Greek & Irish Politics groups on “Mainstreaming” (broadly defined). 🔔 Send us your abstracts by Oct 18 📝

🇬🇧🗳️Very insightful roundtable today at #Sisp2024 shedding light on the UK 2024 General elections, their legacy and wider implications, with Gianfranco Baldini, Edoardo Bressanelli, Arianna Giovannini laura polverari Sean Kippin @ hosted by Società Italiana di Scienza Politica in collaboration with PSA Italian Politics

🚨 After 🇬🇧 PM Starmer met 🇮🇹PM Meloni to discuss immigration policy, do you want to know more about how 🇮🇹parties positioned themselves on 🇮🇹’s externalisation of migration to 🇱🇾 and 🇦🇱? ➡️Read tha article by myself and Mati Rosina for The International Spectator tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…