’Margarita Gómez-Reino has written a very well informed book on the Lega Nord and relates the electoral successes of the Italian Leagues to other attempts to mobilize ethnicity. By combining political opportunity structure - and social cleavage theories she takes a step forward in the field of social movement research.’ Professor Meindert Fennema, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'The originality of Gomez's approach is the outcome of her accurate use of new methodological devices as well as of her impressive fieldwork...Moreover, Gomez succeeds in overcoming the interpretations of the Northern League as the unique product of a typical Italian subculture - i.e. one of industrial districts and of catholic solidarity - as well as those ones which cancel its specificity and its roots in the particular geographical situation and historical moment.' Regional and Federal Studies
