Autori
Fruncillo, Domenico
Pratschke, Jonathan

Titolo
Periferie ed esiti elettorali. Un'analisi territoriale su piccole unità applicata ai risultati delle elezioni 2018 in un'area del Mezzogiorno
Periodico
Polis
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 451 - Pagina finale: 481

The results of the 2018 General Election stimulated a new discussion in thepolitical and social sciences on the link between socio-economic conditionsand voting behaviour, and many observers have sought to understand the risingelectoral fortunes of parties which strongly contest the management of crisesin recent years. In methodological terms, these shifting scenarios underline theneed to identify new variables and categories – or new ways of using existingones – with a view to understanding the situation of voters and the areas inwhich they live. This article forms part of this strand of research and aims toprovide an empirical overview of the transformations that are in course. Theauthors draw on concepts related to the dimensions of vulnerability and socialcomposition in order to identify three distinct types of periphery: urban, periurbanand rural. They hypothesise that different electoral outcomes are observedin these different kinds of areas, which are more or less favourable to politicalformations which challenge the traditional political parties. The study relatesspecifically to the Campania region, which comprises disadvantaged urbanneighbourhoods and rural areas characterised by isolation and demographic decline.The article also explores the role of cultural factors and the attractivenessof individual candidates, demonstrating that it was mainly in the urban andperiurban peripheries that the 5 Star Movement emerged as a dominant politicalforce in the 2018 election. In the rural periphery, by contrast, voters resisted thewave of contestation of existing parties, at least in part, responding in differentways, compared to those in the urban peripheries, due mainly to differences inthe socio-economic and political configuration of these different areas.



SICI: 1120-9488(2020)3<451:PEEEUT>2.0.ZU;2-M
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