Talking Politics: Sinn Fein and Sardines

This Episode –13 February 2020

We talk about two countries going through dramatic democratic change: Ireland, where Sinn Féin came top of the vote in last weekend’s general election, and Italy, where the Sardines are the latest movement trying to shake up the system. What does the Irish vote tell us about the collapse of two party politics? Does Sinn Féin’s success suggest that the party has changed or that the electorate has changed? And in Italy, who or what now stands between Salvini and power? Plus we discuss whether the age of ‘grand coalition’ politics is now over. With Niamh Gallagher, Lucia Rubinelli and Chris Bickerton.. MORE AT LINK

 

 

 

 

 

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Talking Politics is an audio podcast hosted by British academic David Runciman, Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge. It was launched on 27 March 2016 by Runciman. It is also regularly co-hosted with other Cambridge academics, especially Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and also Christopher Brooke, lecturer in political theory Chris Bickerton, reader of modern European politics^, and the late Aaron Rapport.

David Runciman is a long-time contributor to the London Review of Books and Talking Politics is in a partnership with the journa