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Record Nr.

UNINA9910502663603321

Autore

Fiorelli Chiara

Titolo

Political Party Funding and Private Donations in Italy / / by Chiara Fiorelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2021

ISBN

9783030738693

3030738698

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 pages)

Collana

Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series, , 2946-3262

Disciplina

324.245072

324.245011

Soggetti

Europe - Politics and government

Comparative government

European Politics

Comparative Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction: The informative power of private political financing -- Chapter 2: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Political Financing -- Chapter 3: Private Political Financing: Between Regulations and In-depth Research -- Chapter 4: The Connective Capability of Italian Political Parties -- Chapter 5: The Donors' Dilemma -- Chapter 6: The Financial Appeal of Political Parties: Looking for the Determinants of Donors' Preferences -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: 'Winter is Coming' and Political Parties will be left out in the cold.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Chiara Fiorelli is a Research Fellow in Political Science and Adjunct Professor for the course Political Parties, Leadership and Democratic Processes at the Department of Political Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome. Her research interests include party politics, political organizations, and the relationship between political actors and interest groups.