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Globalisation, workers and the northern league

West European Politics, 2000
This article seeks to explain why the Northern League's main basis of support now comes primarily from Northern workers and artisans. To explain the nature of the League's support, we hypothesise that a fear of globalisation has led workers in the north to vote for the party that has put the greatest emphasis on the protection of local identities.
Dwayne Woods
exaly   +2 more sources

A critical analysis of the Northern League's ideographical profiling

Journal of Political Ideologies, 2010
This essay takes an innovative approach in analysing the Northern League's populist ideology. The analytical focus is on the use of posters in its ideological construction of itself and ‘others’. An analysis of the league's posters is significant for three reasons.
Dwayne Woods
exaly   +2 more sources

The politics of the northern league and Italy's changing attitude towards Europe

Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2004
Abstract The Northern League has risen to prominence in Italian politics over the last twenty years and has firmly placed the so‐called ‘Northern question’ at the top of the political agenda. In the mid‐1990s, prior to Italy's entry into the Single Currency, the League was decidedly pro‐European, arguing that the future of the North lay within a ...
Benito Giordano
exaly   +2 more sources

New Rules for National Identity? The Northern League and Political Identity in Contemporary Northern Italy

National Identities, 1999
Abstract National identities are often seen as the polar opposite of identities associated with other geographical scales of political identity, such as the local or the regional. Under contemporary circumstances, however, including the globalisation of economies and the questioning of the efficacy of existing states, national identity may no longer be
John Agnew, Carlo Brusa
exaly   +2 more sources

Wembley, the Rugby League Cup Final and Northern English Identity

The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies, 2005
In 1989 the historian Christopher Hill wondered why the North of England, with all its apparent cultural, social and geographical distinctiveness, had never achieved a separate state or even seen the formation of a 'northern separatist movement' .1 Although the broader questions of the historical development of the North of England are beyond our ...
exaly   +2 more sources

The Northern League (1991–2020)

Journal of Religion in Europe, 2023
Abstract This article aims to clarify the attitude of the Italian Northern League (Lega Nord) toward the Catholic Church and Catholic faith, since its creation in 1991. The article examines the evolution of the party from the merger of the northern regionalist parties under the leadership of Umberto Bossi (1991–2012) until its current form and its ...
openaire   +1 more source

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