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Political Ideology. Lega Nord's political ideology has evolved over the years, reflecting its journey from a regionalist party to a more nationalist one under Salvini's leadership. Regionalism. In its early years, Lega Nord focused on regionalism, advocating for greater autonomy for the northern regions of Italy.
Nov 11, 2022 · The lega’s performative antifascism. In terms of the Lega’s anti-fascist discourse and how the party has attempted to recontextualize the past for its political project, literature has tended to focus not on anti-fascism as an element of the Lega’s ideology, but on its direct or indirect link with the Lega’s nation-building project of ‘Padania’.
Lega Nord. Lega Nord (Northern League) is an Italian right-wing political party. This party has taken several forms over the years. In 1989, the party originated as an alliance of several similar ...
Oct 10, 2022 · The Lega Nord case. Lega Nord was founded in 1991 by its charismatic leader Umberto Bossi, aiming at representing the interests of small and medium entrepreneurs of Northern Italy who felt undermined by the Italian political agenda. In this framework, the European Union represented its main ally against the Italian political elite.
Feb 1, 2011 · The article makes three contributions: first, it encourages a shift away from a focus purely on the Lega's populism towards articulations of its far right ideology; second, it illustrates the ...
Jul 26, 2019 · ABSTRACT. Newth’s paper contributes to a greater understanding of the connection between regionalism and radical-right ideology by examining the roots of the Italian Lega Nord’s regionalist, populist and nativist discourse with a new framework of populist regionalism. By analysing the discourse of two waves of regionalist activism in ...
- George Newth
- 2019
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Jan 5, 2021 · The case of the Lega surely fits in the definition of populism provided by Mudde and Kaltwasser and adopted as a framework for this book. According to the two authors, populism is “a thin-centered ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic camps, ‘the pure people’ versus ‘the corrupt elite,’ and which argues that politics should ...
