The Italian political scientist Piero Ignazi publishes in France an essay on three centuries of party life in Europe.
An important and useful synthesis which pulverizes the illusions of direct democracy.
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Piero Ignazi's book is timely.
It is time, in fact, to look into these parties despised by public opinion in all countries and considered by the prophets of 2.0, always ahead of a revolution, as finished and screwed up.
Polyglot Italian politician, professor of political science at the University of Bologna, Piero Ignazi notes the necessity and endurance of parties despite the crises that plague them.
What a winding story, from their invention to their heyday, then back to their relative decline!
Relative, but not definitive.
Because, barring a coup d'état and a dictatorship, they will still be there in fifty years.
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We can see it clearly today: the anti-party movements, which are supposed to reinvent democracy from the ground up to the ceiling, have done something wrong.
The same goes for the new parties that announced
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