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The violent legacy of fascism: Neofascist political violence in Italy, 1969-88

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  • Stefano Costalli
  • Daniele Guariso
  • Patricia Justino
  • Andrea Ruggeri

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We still have limited knowledge about the long-term effects of fascism on European democracies. European countries experienced cycles of violence between the 1960s and 1980s. Can such violence be explained by legacies of mobilization during fascism? We study whether and how the Italian fascist experience of the 1920s affected political violence during the 1970s and 1980s. We created an original dataset of conflictual events at a subnational level in Italy.

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  • Stefano Costalli & Daniele Guariso & Patricia Justino & Andrea Ruggeri, 2023. "The violent legacy of fascism: Neofascist political violence in Italy, 1969-88," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-34, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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