La Lega e la crisi dello Stato-nazione

The Lega Party is the longest-lived political party still active in Italy today. Initially confined to a few provinces in Lombardy, the Lega has gone from the federalism of its origins, which resulted in calls for secessionism in the second half of the 1990s, to an attempt to assume a national profile, expanding into the South of Italy, where it was long unthinkable for it to take root. This is the first historical monograph devoted entirely to this topic, and it examines the distinctive features of the Lega’s identity, includ- ing both its enduring features and recent innovations.