The spread of neoliberalism has represented, for many Western countries, the starting point of political actions based on marketing instruments and consumerist values rather than on citizens’ will and social classes issues. Meanwhile, the economic neoliberal policies have damaged the great part of the citizens from both a social services supply’s point of view and the income distribution’s one. These measures have brought to the increasing of unemployment rates so as to a stronger and wider appearance of temporary employment’s phenomenon. The question is: to whom are these political measures, introduced in Italy in a such enthusiastic way, worthwhile? Civil Society, which played an important role in Italy during the Tangentopoli years, is been undermined not only by professional and economical establishment (guilds), but also by its own reliance on State’s financial aids for what concerns their chance to give social services and other commodities within the local government’ communities. Even the so-called Third Sector, represented by civic associations operating trough no-profit actions, is going towards the lost of its capability to exist as an autonomous counterpart between the State and the economic system. The aforementioned phenomenon appears in all its relevance in the results of the research Political participation and generational change whose resume constitutes the contents of the present paper.
