Lessons from the populism of Silvio Berlusconi

5 Jan 2024

Silvio Berlusconi, who served as Italian Prime Minister in four separate governments, died in June last year. James L. Newell assesses what Berlusconi’s personalised approach to political campaigning can tell us about the appeal of populism. Political scientists often refer to populism as a “thin ideology”, meaning an ideology characterised by a limited set of … Continued
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