The League and the Crisis of Italian Politics

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Protest groups are important political agencies, but their role is limited by their relatively short-lived organizational forms. Their integration into institutionalized decision-making processes has often proven difficult. Thus their impact tends to be restricted to raising public awareness to particular issues rather than playing a direct political role. This is why usually these groups are not taken seriously as major agencies or change, relegated to epiphenomena of a crisis and regulatory mechanisms of “normal politics.” Even when they successfully question the dominant policy-making framework, these groups remain marginal and tend to vanish as soon as their causes are either integrated into establishment politics or, more likely, the public simply looses interest in the issues they address.

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