Papers by Luciano Brancaccio
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SocietàMutamentoPolitica
After the stages of modernization based on the great mass parties and ideological cultures of the... more After the stages of modernization based on the great mass parties and ideological cultures of the twentieth century, in recent decades the main factors of aggregation in politics have largely returned in the perspective of the changing personalistic dimension. These are relevant novelties from an analytical point of view, but without forgetting the ambivalences between "old" and "new" that are recorded in concrete political dynamics: spurious coalitions between subjects and organizations, particularistic exchange and personal bonds of trust, transversal to canonical category and class distinctions, have always played a significant role, even in phases of the pre-eminence of actors and interests of a collective order. On the other hand, research shows that the latter continue to be driving forces behind the emergence and success of political formations and parties. In this respect, the work of Max Weber and the sociological literature of a process-historical appro...
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in “SocietàMutamentoPolitica", 2021
The article illustrates the penetration strategies of Salvini’s League in Southern Italy, particu... more The article illustrates the penetration strategies of Salvini’s League in Southern Italy, particularly after the 2018 general elections. The League’s strategies are closely observed in three territorial contexts: Calabria, Campania and Sicily. For each of these three regions, the article presents the choices made by the League and the ways of building a new local political class loyal to the party. The analysis shows that in all three regions there is a very important role of the party in central office in the selection of candidates and the definition of party positions, while a less important role is played by the local political class. This has led to strong conflicts and dissatisfaction among the new “leghisti” in these three regions. In fact, they do not find the political space they would like and that the party in central office doesn’t want to grant. Therefore, the path taken by the League in the South seems full of obstacles. Consequently, the new direction given to the Lega by Salvini, who wants to make the Northern League a true national party, is very uncertain.
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in Meridiana, 2019
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in “Paradoxa", 2019
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Lo stato della città. Napoli e la sua area metropolitana, 2016
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Napoli. Persone, spazi e pratiche di innovazione, 2019
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Concetti chiave. Capire la scienza politica, 2016
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Il terremoto del 23 novembre 1980. Luoghi e memorie, 2021
The 1980 earthquake represented a watershed moment in the history of the Campania region from dif... more The 1980 earthquake represented a watershed moment in the history of the Campania region from different points of view. A central aspect concerns the changes that took place in the political system. The public funds allocated for the reconstruction programme redefined the hierarchy
of territorial powers giving new centrality to political intermediation. But another important aspect concerns the changes in the mafia world across the region, with the emergence of new groups and families. These new groups took advantage of the expansion of drug trafficking and showed a particular aptitude for economic activities (both legal or illegal). Drug trafficking and business activities, mainly linked to public funds, became the levers of criminal power during the the 1980s. The combination of these two factors favored the affirmation of exchange relations between the political class and criminal elites, resulting in a very peculiar situation linked to the historical conditions of those years. This contribution proposes to reconstruct the form and substance of these relationships from a diachronic perspective.
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Napoli e la giunta rossa. Atti del Convegno “Il volto della città di Napoli e l’attività dell’Amministrazione Valenzi (1975-1983), 2021
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in “SocietàMutamentoPolitica”, 2023
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, in “Regional Studies and Local Development”, 2023
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MERIDIANA RIVISTA DI STORIA E SCIENZE SOCIALI, 2021
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Affari di camorra. Famiglie, imprenditori e gruppi criminali , 2015
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in "Modern Italy", 2022
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in "Politiche Sociali/Social Policies", 2015
The article analyses the relationship between «neopatrimonialism», welfare state services and org... more The article analyses the relationship between «neopatrimonialism», welfare state services and organised crime groups. By focusing on four cases in the city of Naples, the study examines how specific electoral machines were set up by local politicians running a variety of profit or non-profit community based organizations aimed at providing support to people applying for social benefits. Two main aspects are taken into consideration: first, the personalization of the political process at the grassroots level and the increasing party fragmentation that tend to create particularistic networks linking political leaders to electoral constituencies at the neighbourhood level; second, the devolution and privatization of welfare state services. The latter have reshaped the organization and delivery of social benefits and services, thereby widening the room for intermediation between the public and the private sphere, and offering the camorra clans an opportunity to step in. These recent phenomena have turned «service centres» into a new location for exchanging service provision with political consensus at the community level.
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Mafia Violence, 2018
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Italian Mafias Today, 2019
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in "Meridiana", 2014
Drawing on over ten years of ethnographic research on the neomelodica music scene in Campania, Th... more Drawing on over ten years of ethnographic research on the neomelodica music scene in Campania, The Art of Making Do in Naples (University of Minnesota Press 2012) offers several empirical, theoretical and methodological points of interest for scholars working in a range of social science disciplines. For this reason, Meridiana hosted a forum on the book comprised of scholars from variety of backgrounds (history, sociology and anthropology). Pine’s work is the first to explore, through in depth long-term field research, the social spaces where formal, informal and illicit economic activities overlap. In their discussion, the participants of the forum engaged a number of issues relevant to readers of Meridiana, including: Pine’s concept of the «contact zone,» stereotypical representations of the neomelodica scene and of Neapolitan popular classes more generally, the power and form of camorra networks, the fraught relationship between researcher and the field, and the spaces of indeter...
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of territorial powers giving new centrality to political intermediation. But another important aspect concerns the changes in the mafia world across the region, with the emergence of new groups and families. These new groups took advantage of the expansion of drug trafficking and showed a particular aptitude for economic activities (both legal or illegal). Drug trafficking and business activities, mainly linked to public funds, became the levers of criminal power during the the 1980s. The combination of these two factors favored the affirmation of exchange relations between the political class and criminal elites, resulting in a very peculiar situation linked to the historical conditions of those years. This contribution proposes to reconstruct the form and substance of these relationships from a diachronic perspective.
of territorial powers giving new centrality to political intermediation. But another important aspect concerns the changes in the mafia world across the region, with the emergence of new groups and families. These new groups took advantage of the expansion of drug trafficking and showed a particular aptitude for economic activities (both legal or illegal). Drug trafficking and business activities, mainly linked to public funds, became the levers of criminal power during the the 1980s. The combination of these two factors favored the affirmation of exchange relations between the political class and criminal elites, resulting in a very peculiar situation linked to the historical conditions of those years. This contribution proposes to reconstruct the form and substance of these relationships from a diachronic perspective.