The five stars continue to shine: the consolidation of Grillo’s ‘movement party’ in Italy

Abstract

Despite the predictions of observers and opponents, the Five-star Movement continues to hold centre stage in Italian politics. The article retraces the phases of the Movement’s development and consolidation from the point of view of its electoral performance, its internal organisation and the socio-demographic and ideological profiles of its voters, concentrating on the most recent period. In particular, it focuses on the difficulties that emerged in the wake of the European elections of 2014. The consequent birth of the so-called Five-star Directorate and the new direction of change internally and externally confirm that the study of this ‘movement party’ has relevance beyond the Italian case and throws light on the crisis of contemporary representative democracies.

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