2016/01/02 by Elisabetta Brighi, Lilia Giugni · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Global Political and Social Dynamics #Global Peace and Security Dynamics #International Relations and Foreign Policy
paper · doi:10.1080/03932729.2016.1121688
openalex publication_date 2016/01/02 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
The post-communist Italian Left has experienced a long phase of ideational misalignment between ideas placed at different levels, as a qualified discursive institutionalist approach demonstrates. Background public philosophies have often clashed with post-communist political ideology, while foreign policy programmes have often contradicted specific policies. Under the leadership of Matteo Renzi, however, the PD is now experiencing a moment of remarkable ideational consistency. Rather than being founded on entirely new premises, this new consensus folds old elements into new ones and shows all the defining traits of post-ideology. Yet, by espousing post-ideology, Renzi is making an ultimately ideological move whose limitations may soon start to show.