Italy at the Polls 2022 / Progress in Mathematics (PDF)

"This book provides an excellent description of the outcome of the 2022 election in Italy, which saw the rise of Giorgia Meloni and her far right party, Brothers of Italy, to the helm of government. The phenomenon is even more important given that Italy has often been a laboratory for future trends in European politics. The authors make good use of media, survey and official electoral data to analyse the campaign and electoral geography, as well as voting choices and their timing, to provide a vivid account of the election outcome in a country where instability and uncertainty have become the norm."

-Marina Costa Lobo, University of Lisbon, Portugal

"This book provides an impressive first analysis of the 2022 Italian elections, the third most volatile elections in Italy's post-war history, after 1994 and 2013. Its authors document how the widespread economic, cultural and political malaise influenced Italians' electoral choices. They help us understand how, in the fluid Italian political context, widespread insecurity among voters and resentment against the political elites led to a massive shift to the right and an exceptionally high abstention rate."

-Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute, Italy

Fabio Bordignon is Associate Professor at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Luigi Ceccarini is Professor at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

James L. Newell is Adjunct Professor at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy