Pagliarulo, DiegoHarris, PamelaEverett, Marshall Sinclair2024-10-222024-10-222021Everett, Marshall Sinclair. "The Rise of Contemporary Italian Populism". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2021https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/560Thesis (B.A. in Political Science)--John Cabot University, Fall 2021.Populism has undergone a surge in popularity around the world over the past decade. While this surge can be understood in the context of a broad movement, each state possesses a unique populist movement that, while possibly sharing characteristics with that of populist movements found elsewhere, can best be understood within the context of the state itself. To this end, each state that has experienced a rise in populism warrants further examination as to how the populist narrative has manifested there and taken hold. The objective of this thesis is to better understand why the use of a populist narrative by the Italian populist parties Movimento Cinque Stelle and Lega between 2014 and 2019 that frame the Eurozone crisis of 2008 and Refugee crisis of 2014 as the Italian ‘people’ versus the EU ‘elite’ was so successful in garnering the support of the Italian people.v, 29 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/PopulismPolitics and governmentCitizen participationThesis