Abstract

This note aims to review the main essays recently published in Italy on relationships between leadership, media and political communication. These are critically discussed referring to Max Weber's classical model of leadership and to the present political situation in Italy. All authors focused their attention to Berlusconi's political communication and his relationships with Italian media system, trying to analyse his electoral successes by a no-ideological perspective. Some fi nal considerations are added about the cleavage between national and local level of leadership formation, which stops emerging of new leaders and changing of Italian political élite.