LEADER 03528nam 22005775 450 001 9910502663603321 005 20231110150440.0 010 $a9783030738693 010 $a3030738698 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-73869-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000012025943 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6725063 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6725063 035 $a(OCoLC)1287138757 035 $a(PPN)259452068 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-73869-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012025943 100 $a20210911d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolitical Party Funding and Private Donations in Italy /$fby Chiara Fiorelli 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (164 pages) 225 1 $aInterest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series,$x2946-3262 311 08$a9783030738686 311 08$a303073868X 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aDespite any evidence against it, political parties still represent the most important collective actor in a democratic political system. Their role in representing pluralism and their electoral centrality is not undermined, even when it is strongly questioned. As long as political parties can be understood as representative actors articulating political demands, this book focuses on the capacity of Italian political parties to mobilize resources and financial resources in particular. Through the analysis of private financial donations to political parties, a neglected source of information that will be fundamental in the near future, the author assesses their connective capability with specific interests' representatives in the last decades in order to provide evidence of their changing representational role as collective actors. Chiara Fiorelli is a Research Fellow in Political Science and Adjunct Professor for the course Political Parties, Leadership and Democratic Processes at the Department of Political Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome. Her research interests include party politics, political organizations, and the relationship between political actors and interest groups. 410 0$aInterest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series,$x2946-3262 606 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 606 $aComparative government 606 $aEuropean Politics 606 $aComparative Politics 615 0$aEurope$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aComparative government. 615 14$aEuropean Politics. 615 24$aComparative Politics. 676 $a324.245072 676 $a324.245011 700 $aFiorelli$b Chiara$01069589 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910502663603321 996 $aPolitical Party Funding and Private Donations in Italy$92556436 997 $aUNINA