Looking through the mirror: representativeness of the Italian party system before the 2018 General Election

Since the late 1980s, political parties entered a path of decreasing trust and confidence. Many reasons contributed to this decline, with the results that, today, the decline of these organisations can be seen from many differ-ent points of observation (Ignazi 2020). One of the reasons behind this drop in confidence has been explained by a process of detachment of parties from voters’ social bases, whereas parties have progressively become similar to public agencies, losing their linkage with society (Mair 2013).Political representation is usually referred to as the relationship between voters (or citizens in general) and their elected counterparts (Pitkin 1967), where the former are acting in the name or in trust of the latter. This relationship is often mediated through parties, <a href="https://universityofflorence.medium.com/looking-through-the-mirror-representativeness-of-the-italian-party-system-before-the-2018-general-6e650a7fee70">Read More</a>