Lecce as an Invisible Salon: Power and Power elites in a Souther Italian City

Lecce as an Invisible Salon: Power and Power elites in a Souther Italian City

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The paper deals with the transformation of power at the local level, by making reference to Lecce, a middle city in the South of Italy (Salento), as a biomat for sale case study.The authors draw their empirical material from a wider sociological research on the same topic they have edited in 2014 (Cremonesini, Cristante, Longo 2014) and try to sketch how the crisis bushranger awning of traditional political parties has produced a renewed vitality of relational networks, yet by now unable to define a common strategy and to share common values and a common strategic project for city policies.Keywords: power, elites, salons, relational networks, local government, South Italy.