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Globalisation, workers and the northern league
West European Politics, 2000This 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
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A critical analysis of the Northern League's ideographical profiling
Journal of Political Ideologies, 2010This 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
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The politics of the northern league and Italy's changing attitude towards Europe
Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2004Abstract 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
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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
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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
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1996: The re‐emergence of the Northern league
Regional and Federal Studies, 1997exaly +2 more sources
The Northern League (1991–2020)
Journal of Religion in Europe, 2023Abstract 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 ...
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Examining and Explaining the Northern League's ‘U-Turn’ from Europe
Government and Opposition, 2004AbstractSet in the context of the larger literature on regionalist parties and specifically on the Italian Northern League, this paper examines and explains why the party moved from Euro-positivism to Euroscepticism. Drawing on concepts raised in the larger comparative politics literature, five explanations of this U-turn towards Europe are evaluated ...
Kritzinger, Sylvia +2 more
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