Italy's political disaster analysed
David Broder is a Rome-based writer and translator. He is a contributing editor for Jacobin magazine and regularly writes on Italian politics for publications including Internazionale.
In this well-researched and engagingly written book David Broder
shows how the rise of Lega and of its current leader Matteo Salvini
emerged out of decades of economic stagnation, social despair and
political nihilism in Italian society. And how the abject failure
of the Italian Left to represent workers' interests has contributed
to the success of the Lega's nativism.
*Paolo Gerbaudo*
Expertly dissects the political and social trends that account for
the League's revival since 2013.
*Financial Times*
No other book offers such a clear and concise analysis of just how
much Italy has changed, for the worse in this neo-liberal
world.
*Brave New Europe*
Highly useful in understanding how politics have changed since the
Second World War, and where Italy is going in the very
unpredictable Europe of today.
*Newsmax*
David Broder has done us a great service with this succinct account
of Italian neoliberal democracy, and he tells it well. If we see
what has occurred in Italy as exceptional then we not only don't
understand what has taken place, but we don't get the warning that
what happens there can happen here. We have been warned.
*Counterfire*
Broder unravels the mystery of how one of Europe's most stable
democracies, boasting superb labour rights and a thriving
manufacturing economy, became a basket case almost over night -
plagued by political instability, poverty, and mass emigration.
*Tribune*
Insightful
*The Article*
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