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Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement

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Organisation, Communication and Ideology

Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement

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Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement book

Organisation, Communication and Ideology
ByFilippo Tronconi
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 1 March 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569062
Pages 254
eBook ISBN 9781315569062
Subjects Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Tronconi, F. (2015). Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement: Organisation, Communication and Ideology (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569062

ABSTRACT

In 2009 Beppe Grillo, a well-known Italian comedian, established the Five Star Movement with the aim of sending a handful of citizens to municipal councils to act as the watchdog of a professional political class often perceived as corrupt and self-interested. However, in the Italian general elections of February 2013, despite still largely being considered a small protest movement, the party gained the undisputed role of leading political actor gaining just under 9 million votes and sending 163 Deputies and Senators to the Italian parliament. The birth and rapid rise of the Five Star Movement represents an electoral earthquake with no parallels in Italy and the whole of post-1945 Western Europe and a phenomenon likely to shape the Italian political scene for many years to come. Drawing on an extensive array of data and face-to-face interviews, this volume offers an empirically grounded explanation of the surprising electoral success of the Five Star Movement and presents a realistic picture of this party in its manifold aspects: organisational structure, communication style, linkages with civil society, ideological nature and positioning in the Italian political system.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

ByFilippo Tronconi

chapter 1|20 pages

Beppe Grillo and the Movimento 5 Stelle: A Brief History of a ‘Leaderist’ Movement with a Leaderless Ideology

ByFilippo Tronconi

chapter 2|23 pages

The Organization of the Movimento 5 Stelle: A Contradictory

ByParty Model

chapter 3|22 pages

Between Blog, Social Networks and Territory: Activists and Grassroots Organization

ByFilippo Tronconi

chapter 4|25 pages

The Electoral Base: The ‘Political Revolution’ in Evolution

ByFilippo Tronconi

chapter 5|28 pages

From ‘Citizens’ to Members of Parliament: The Elected Representatives in the Parliamentary Arena

ByFilippo Tronconi

chapter 6|26 pages

An Internet-Fuelled Party? The Movimento 5 Stelle and the Web

ByFilippo Tronconi

chapter 7|26 pages

The Movimento 5 Stelle and Social Conflicts: Between Symbiosis and Cooptation

ByFilippo Tronconi

chapter 8|16 pages

A Vote(r) Like Any Other? Exploring the Protest Component in the Vote for the Movimento 5 Stelle

ByFilippo Tronconi

chapter 9|18 pages

Beyond Protest: Issues and Ideological Inconsistencies in the Voters of the Movimento 5 Stelle

ByFilippo Tronconi

chapter 10|18 pages

Conclusion: The Organisational and Ideological Roots of the Electoral Success

ByFilippo Tronconi
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