Partiti e politica alla prova del populismo: qualche nota

(Parties, Politics, and Populism as a Test: Some Remarks)

Abstract

“New populism” is to be understood as a “general” form of politics, and not as an expression, no matter how ample, of one of its specific areas of reference. It is nourished with a dramatic political disintermediation, which has found the system of European parties to be more vulnerable than the American one. By taking as its point of reference Theodore Lowi’s classical typology, modeled on the American system, this essay highlights the slippage in the ability of European parties to preside over all four “spheres of power.” Nowadays, such inability must be confronted.