Brothers of Italy and the Rise of the Italian National Conservative Right under Giorgia Meloni

Salvatore Vassallo is Director of the Cattaneo Institute and Professor of Comparative Politics and Public Opinion Analysis at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is author of Liberiamo la politica (2014, Il Mulino, Bologna), is editor of Sistemi politici comparati (2016, Il Mulino, Bologna), and co-editor of Il bipolarismo asimmetrico (2023, Il Mulino, Bologna), and “From Mario Draghi to Giorgia Meloni: Domestic Political Change and Management of International Crises” (special issue of Contemporary Italian Politics, 2023).   Rinaldo Vignati is a research fellow at the University of Bologna and collaborates with the Research Foundation Carlo Cattaneo Institute, Italy. He has written in the fields of politics and film history. He is co-editor of La prova del No. Il sistema politico italiano dopo il referendum costituzionale (2017, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli) and Il vicolo cieco. Le elezioni del 4 marzo 2018 (2018, Il Mulino, Bologna) and author of Indro Montanelli e il cinema (2019, Mimesis, Milano-Udine).

Chapter 1. Questions about Giorgia Meloni's party.- Chapter 2. MSI. The flame of the defeated.- Chapter 3. AN. The flame outside the ghetto.- Chapter 4. FDI. The party of the third generation.- Chapter 5. Organisation and internal democracy.- Chapter 6. National-conservatives.- Chapter 7. Philoatlantists and Eurocritics.- Chapter 8. A mother against the mainstream.- Chapter 9. A changing electorate.- Chapter10. Leading the nation.