2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

SPS/04 (POLTICIAL SCIENCE)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

COMMUNICATION, INNOVATION, MULTIMEDIA

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (27/02/2017 - 27/05/2017)

9

54 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

CHIAPPONI FLAVIO (titolare) - 9 ECTS

Interest in communicacation, politics, web and social media topics.

The course aims at two main ends. The first is to clarify how empirical political science focuses the study of political language and communication; the second lays in the analysis of populist political rhetoric, nowadays a successful mean of winning electoral support, in Italy as well as in other European democracies.

In the last decades, populist or neo-populist parties have displayed a growing electoral success in many consolidated democratic regimes, especially in the UE. These parties have some common characters; among them, the most evident lays in the innovative kind of political communication. The speak a new language, which is markedly different from the moore traditional rhetoric, largely adopted by mainstream parties. First of all, the course focuses what populism and populist parties are, and how they carry out their political action in European political systems; then, lessons aim at clarify how Five Star Movement MPs employ communication's resources and capabilities in Italian Parliament.

Classes.

Attending students:

Flavio Chiapponi, "Populismo, democrazia, personalizzazione. Il Movimento 5 Stelle nel sistema politico italiano", Epoké Edizioni, 2017;

Flavio Chiapponi, "Il Movimento 5 Stelle nel dibattito parlamentare sulla fiducia al governo: analisi di un discorso politico populista", in "Quaderni di scienza politica", 2016, n. 1, pp. 55-106.

Not attending students:

Not attending students must study the whole program above (for attending students) plus one book, which can be choosed from the following list:


Piergiorgio Corbetta e Elisabetta Gualmini (a cura di), Il partito di Grillo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013;

Marco Tarchi, Italia populista. Dal qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015.

Written test.