03528nam 22005775 450 991050266360332120231110150440.09783030738693303073869810.1007/978-3-030-73869-3(CKB)4100000012025943(MiAaPQ)EBC6725063(Au-PeEL)EBL6725063(OCoLC)1287138757(PPN)259452068(DE-He213)978-3-030-73869-3(EXLCZ)99410000001202594320210911d2021 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPolitical Party Funding and Private Donations in Italy /by Chiara Fiorelli1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,2021.1 online resource (164 pages)Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series,2946-32629783030738686 303073868X 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.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.Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series,2946-3262EuropePolitics and governmentComparative governmentEuropean PoliticsComparative PoliticsEuropePolitics and government.Comparative government.European Politics.Comparative Politics.324.245072324.245011Fiorelli Chiara1069589MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910502663603321Political Party Funding and Private Donations in Italy2556436UNINA