Articles by Davide Vampa

October 27, 2022

Boom to bust: where next for Matteo Salvini’s League?

Davide Vampa

A right-wing coalition won the Italian general election in September, but not all the parties within it fared well. After a boom in votes in 2018–19, support for Salvini’s League has collapsed. This, argue Arianna Giovannini and Davide Vampa, is the price for selling the party’s soul

Davide Vampa

Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Aston University

Davide's work has mainly focused on the links between territorial party politics and public policy.

He has also conducted research on recent transformations in democratic representation (at local, regional and national levels), rising populism, and the crisis of social democracy.

Between 2018 and 2021 he was co-convenor of the UK Political Studies Association's Italian Politics Specialist Group.

He tweets @DavideVampa

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