ABSTRACT
In recent decades, anti-political attitudes and feelings appear to have grown, involving broader social categories than before. Together with other phenomena that have been extensively examined in the literature and with which anti-politics is strictly interrelated the spread of anti-politics has helped change the relationship between citizens and the political sphere. In terms of the political class, while the Italian case shows that waging on anti-politics can be a way for politicians to further and fast track their careers, it also shows that these careers can quickly come to an end as a consequence. In conceptual terms, the broad survey of the uses of the word “anti-politics” reveals serious problems of homonymy and of synonymy, which render any theoretical or empirical analysis of the question more complicated and confused. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
