Roberto D'Alimonte, "How the Populists Won in Italy", Journal of Democracy, vol. 30 no. 1, 2019, pp. 114-127. doi:10.1353/jod.2019.0009 Per una breve intervista in cui il Professor D'Alimonte presenta questo suo articolo, cliccare qui. ABSTRACT Italy's March 2018 election saw two populist parties, the Five Star Movement (M5S) and Lega (formerly the Northern League), win a combined majority of votes and parliamentary seats, and these unique parties have joined forces to form a government. M5S is an internet-driven movement with the utopian mission of implementing direct democracy, while Lega is a onetime regionalist party that has replaced its former goal of secession for northern...