Author(s)

Antonello Canzano

Universita’ Di Chieti, Pescara, Italy.

This paper analyses the neo-centralism in the Italian polical party, the analysis regards the local contest. Its goal is to describe the Italian parties’ evolution, in their organization and functional aspects. After the end of the mass parties, one could ask this question: “what happened to the most important political subject that dominated the Italian political system from the birth of the republic until the beginning of the nineties”? This paper aims to give a contribution to the understanding of the party de-structuring phase and the temporary structural reconstruction one. Despite the changes that have taken place, the political party continues in different ways to be central in the local and national context. How? The approaches are profoundly different from the past, they invest both the decision-making process of public policies and the selection of the ruling class at all levels.

Political-Party, Neo-Centralism, Local Contest

Canzano, A. (2018) Political-Party Neo-Centralism in the Italian Local Context. Advances in Applied Sociology, 8, 517-533. doi: 10.4236/aasoci.2018.87031.