Political party funding and private donations in Italy

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    • Fiorelli, Chiara

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Political party funding and private donations in Italy

Chiara Fiorelli

(Interest groups, advocacy and democracy series)

Palgrave Pivot, Palgrave Macmillan, c2021

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Description

Despite 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 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.

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