Active Memory: The Resistance in Today’s Politics

Eighty years after the end of World War II, Italy is still coming to terms with a past that never ceased its relevance to the present. A study published on Comparative Political Studies by Simone Cremaschi (Bocconi University) and Juan Masullo (Leiden University) explores how the collective memory of the partisan resistance still influences political behavior today in Italian regions that experienced that historical period most intensely.