CasaPound Italia: Contemporary Extreme-Right Politics

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1. CasaPound Italia: hybridization in the contemporary extreme right
1.1 Studying CasaPound in the European far-right context
1.1.1 How to distinguish extreme and radical variants of far-right
politics
1.1.2 How to identify the organizational variants of the far right
1.2 The argument
1.3 Research design
1.3.1 Case selection: why CasaPound Italia?
1.3.2 Gauging CasaPound’s profile in public debates
1.3.3 Studying the internal supply-side and external mobilization
1.4 Outline of the book
Notes
References
2. History and context of CasaPound Italia
2.1 Far-right politics in Italy: from 1945 to Fiuggi
2.2 The contemporary scenario
2.3 The origins of CasaPound Italia
2.4 From local to national, from single-issue movement to
political party
Conclusive remarks
Notes
References
3. Ideology
3.1 Nativism and the people: ‘Italians first!’
3.2 Authoritarianism: historical Fascism and law and order
3.3 Welfare and the economy: state-led (domestic) laissez-faire
3.4 Other themes
3.4.1 European integration: for Europe but against the EU
3.4.2 The environment: for a nativist ecology
3.4.3 Gender: tradition against individualism
3.4.4 International relations: nostalgia for empires (with Putin
and Assad)
Conclusive remarks
Notes
References
4. Internal structure
4.1 Formal organization: territorial and thematic units
4.2 Leadership, decision-making and personnel selection
4.3 Recruitment strategies
4.4 Modes of engagement
4.4.1 The youth wing
4.4.2 Women in CasaPound
4.4.3 Football fans
Conclusive remarks
Notes
References
5. Collective identity
5.1 Imagery
5.2 Style
5.3 Music
5.4 Violence
Conclusive remarks
Notes
References
6. External mobilization
6.1 From the streets to the ballots?
6.2 The protest arena: issues and tactics in CasaPound’s
mobilization
6.3 The electoral arena: CasaPound’s strategies and results
6.3.1 Issue attention in CasaPound’s electoral campaigns
6.4 Protest and electoral campaigns
6.4.1 Early campaigns: housing, welfare and austerity
6.4.2 CasaPound’s recent campaigns: the European Union and immigration
Conclusive remarks
Notes
References
7. Political communication
7.1 Infrastructure: media outlets and targeted audiences
7.1.1 Internal communication and the house organ of CasaPound
7.1.2 Online platforms to communicate internally and externally
7.1.3 External communication and social media
7.2 Style: from protest to electoral politics
7.2.1 Crafting a social movement profile
7.2.2 Setting up an electoral profile
7.2.3 Appealing to quality media
Conclusive remarks
Notes
References
8. Conclusions
8.1 Hybridization in the politics of CasaPound Italia
8.1.1 Drivers of hybridization
8.1.2 Dimensions of hybridization
8.1.3 The consequences of hybridization
8.2 Future research
8.3 Last thoughts
References
Appendices
Appendix 1: List of interviews
Appendix 2: Documentary appendix: internal literature of
CasaPound Italia
Appendix 3: The coding of political claims
Appendix 4: The coding of election manifestos
Index