Between 2011 and 2013 a “new Italian transition” seems to have begun, twenty years after the turning point of the early Nineties. The fall of the last Berlusconi government; the season of the great coalitions, with the governments of Monti and Letta; the General Election in 2013, with the unexpected eruption of the 5SM these are the crucial stages on the road to the conclusion of the Second Republic. Within the space of a few months between the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014, in quick succession Matteo Renzi won the leadership of the Democratic Party and then the leadership of the Italian government. His fast rise as a national leader seemed, in some ways, to have begun a new era: towards a new equilibrium based on the young leader and a presidential structure outlined by the package of institutional reforms promoted by the executive. However, this political scenario, after the outcome of the Constitutional Referendum of 4 December 2016 and Renzi’s consequent resignation as Prime minister, seems to remain “suspended” between two extremes: the hypothesis of a long-lasting hegemony of Renzi’s Democratic Party and, on the other side, a possible rapid exhaustion of this political season.
Matteo Renzi: The Post-Modern Prince. Leadership and Communication in the Frame of the New Italian Transition
BORDIGNON, FABIO;CECCARINI, LUIGINO
2018
Abstract
Between 2011 and 2013 a “new Italian transition” seems to have begun, twenty years after the turning point of the early Nineties. The fall of the last Berlusconi government; the season of the great coalitions, with the governments of Monti and Letta; the General Election in 2013, with the unexpected eruption of the 5SM these are the crucial stages on the road to the conclusion of the Second Republic. Within the space of a few months between the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014, in quick succession Matteo Renzi won the leadership of the Democratic Party and then the leadership of the Italian government. His fast rise as a national leader seemed, in some ways, to have begun a new era: towards a new equilibrium based on the young leader and a presidential structure outlined by the package of institutional reforms promoted by the executive. However, this political scenario, after the outcome of the Constitutional Referendum of 4 December 2016 and Renzi’s consequent resignation as Prime minister, seems to remain “suspended” between two extremes: the hypothesis of a long-lasting hegemony of Renzi’s Democratic Party and, on the other side, a possible rapid exhaustion of this political season.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
