This thesis examines how the main Italian political parties have addressed the issue of environmental sustainability in their political manifestos between 2006 and 2022. The study is situated in a context where Italy, as part of the Euro-Mediterranean region, is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and where political communication has been significantly reshaped by digital media and the increasing personalization of campaigns. The research is structured in three chapters: 1. a reconstruction of the origins and evolution of the concept of environmental sustainability; 2. an analysis of the transformations of political communication and the emergence of a new media ecosystem; 3. an empirical examination of electoral programmes, conducted using the software Iramuteq, in order to identify the main semantic areas and the differences across political alignments and electoral cycles. Overall, the findings indicate that attention to environmental sustainability in party manifestos is uneven and varies across both party families and electoral cycles. The theme is most prominently and consistently articulated in the programmes of the Five Star Movement, reaching its peak salience in the 2018 election. Among left-wing parties, sustainability is generally embedded within broader policy frameworks, whereas it tends to appear only marginally in centre-right platforms. These patterns suggest that the framing of sustainability primarily reflects each party’s programmatic priorities and strategic orientations, resulting in markedly different discursive configurations across the Italian political landscape.
Questa tesi analizza come i principali partiti italiani hanno trattato il tema della sostenibilità ambientale nei programmi elettorali dal 2006 al 2022. Il lavoro si colloca in un contesto in cui l’Italia, parte dell’area euro-mediterranea, è tra le regioni più esposte agli effetti del cambiamento climatico e in cui la comunicazione politica è profondamente trasformata dalle logiche dei media digitali e dalla crescente personalizzazione delle campagne. Il percorso di ricerca si articola in tre capitoli: 1. la ricostruzione delle origini e dell’evoluzione del concetto di sostenibilità ambientale; 2. l’analisi dei cambiamenti della comunicazione politica e del nuovo ecosistema mediale; 3. l’analisi empirica dei programmi elettorali, condotta attraverso il software Iramuteq, per individuare le principali aree semantiche e le differenze tra schieramenti e cicli elettorali. Nel complesso, i risultati mostrano che la rilevanza attribuita alla sostenibilità ambientale nei programmi non è uniforme e varia in funzione delle identità politiche dei partiti e dei diversi anni elettorali. Il tema appare centrale e strutturato soprattutto nel Movimento 5 Stelle e nel ciclo elettorale del 2018, mentre risulta più integrato in cornici tematiche più ampie nei partiti di sinistra e generalmente meno prominente nel centrodestra. Queste differenze indicano che la tematizzazione della sostenibilità riflette, in primo luogo, le priorità e le scelte programmatiche proprie di ciascun attore politico, delineando configurazioni discorsive eterogenee all’interno del panorama italiano.
La sostenibilità ambientale nei programmi elettorali dei partiti politici italiani
ARDOLINO, ALESSIA
2024/2025
Abstract
This thesis examines how the main Italian political parties have addressed the issue of environmental sustainability in their political manifestos between 2006 and 2022. The study is situated in a context where Italy, as part of the Euro-Mediterranean region, is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and where political communication has been significantly reshaped by digital media and the increasing personalization of campaigns. The research is structured in three chapters: 1. a reconstruction of the origins and evolution of the concept of environmental sustainability; 2. an analysis of the transformations of political communication and the emergence of a new media ecosystem; 3. an empirical examination of electoral programmes, conducted using the software Iramuteq, in order to identify the main semantic areas and the differences across political alignments and electoral cycles. Overall, the findings indicate that attention to environmental sustainability in party manifestos is uneven and varies across both party families and electoral cycles. The theme is most prominently and consistently articulated in the programmes of the Five Star Movement, reaching its peak salience in the 2018 election. Among left-wing parties, sustainability is generally embedded within broader policy frameworks, whereas it tends to appear only marginally in centre-right platforms. These patterns suggest that the framing of sustainability primarily reflects each party’s programmatic priorities and strategic orientations, resulting in markedly different discursive configurations across the Italian political landscape.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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