Italian politics has changed course yet again. Thanks to the outcome of the 2022 general
election a coalition dominated for the first time by a party of the far right has taken
office under Giorgia Meloni the first woman to serve as prime minister in Italy's republican
history. Italy has always been a kind of 'political laboratory' for Western democracies - one
in which new political phenomena have developed with considerable potency. Consequently the
electoral analyses presented in this book make it possible for the reader to understand the
challenges and related consequences that established democracies are currently facing beyond
Italy.
