The Covid pandemic enters the ballot box: The impact of conspiracy theories on Italians' voting behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis

D Serani - Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The spread of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020 was the impetus
for an exogenous shock. In addition to the disruption brought on by the spread of COVID-19 …

[PDF][PDF] Italy: The diverging strategies of the populist radical right during the pandemic

L Zanotti, C Meléndez - Populists and the Pandemic, 2022 - library.oapen.org
Until the breakdown of the Conte II Cabinet, the League discursively attacked the
government's handling of the pandemic, focusing mainly on two issues: immigration and the …

Chi si fida del vaccino anti-Covid? Infodemia, percezione di «information overload» sui social media e polarizzazione ideologica

A Valeriani, L Iannelli, E Pavan, D Serani - Comunicazione politica, 2021 - rivisteweb.it
This paper provides empirical evidence about varying levels of trust in anti-Covid vaccines
amongst Italian citizens. We problematize the issue of trust at the crossroads between three …

Predicting publics' compliance with containment measures at the early stages of COVID-19: The role of governmental transparent communication and public cynicism

D Xu, JY Li, Y Lee - International Journal of Strategic …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the agreement on the importance of transparency in pandemic management, few
studies have provided empirical evidence to answer the question of how governmental …

Coalition politics under exceptional exogenous constraints: the Meloni government during the EU-financed economic recovery plan

E Borghetto, M Improta, F Marangoni - South European Society …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Since its inauguration, the coalition dynamics characterizing the Meloni government have
been interrelated with managing one of the largest investment plans in Italian history: the …

[HTML][HTML] Racial Disinformation, Populism and Associated Stereotypes across Three European Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

F D'Errico, PG Cicirelli, A Lops, R Scardigno - Social Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Within the realm of disinformation, across all media platforms, a crucial subject of interest
seems to be immigration, which produces the so-called 'racial hoaxes'. Racial hoaxes are …

[PDF][PDF] Moral panics and health-related misinformation: When the audience becomes co-producer

A Lavorgna, E Massa - Folk Devils and Moral Panics in the COVID …, 2024 - library.oapen.org
The COVID-19 pandemic, being a time of pervasive crisis and insecurity, has raised
important societal reactions, which could be interpreted through the moral panic lens …

Unity in fragility: nonviolence and COVID-19

R Baldoli, CM Radaelli - … Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The COVID-19 pandemic witnessed extreme forms of biopolitics, as well as the urgency to
reconsider our relationship with the planet. Although biopolitics draws attention to the …

The Politicization of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

A Kirbiš, M Lubej - The COVID-19 Aftermath: Volume II: Lessons Learned, 2024 - Springer
Political actors and institutions are largely responsible for effectively implementing the latest
scientific and medical information in the form of public health measures. However, when …

COVID-19 risk perception and political actors: how confidence in the government or opposition affected risk perception during the Italian lockdown

A Marchesi, N De Luigi - Contemporary Italian Politics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the connections between the socio-demographic patterns of COVID-
19 risk perception and the influence of confidence in the government or opposition during …