Radical Left Parties and National Identity in Spain, Italy and Portugal: Rejecting or Reclaiming the Nation

In: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

Abstract

1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual Framework -- 3. Setting the Scene: The Radical Left and the Nation -- 4. The Spanish Case. What Is Spain? Franco's Legacy and Podemos' Patriotism -- 5. The Italian Case. Italy's Wheezing Left Between the Shadow of Its Past and New Challenges -- 6. The Portuguese Case. Left-Leaning Banal Nationalism in Portugal -- 7. Comparing the Results -- 8. Conclusion.