Analisi del rapporto tra politica, ideologia e Stato a partire dal pensiero degli esponenti del meridionalismo. Political thinking is the attempt of building again, through the protagonist’s thought of the acclimation in the democratic issue of elites’s theories ( N. Bobbio), G. Dorso, the complicated relationship linking the education of a “classe politica”, according to Mosca’s and Pareto’s concepts, to a precise verification of facts: the solution of the lasting “questione meridionale”. Dorso shows a method: only who manages to solve in concrete a question which is crucial for the future of a nation, can really aspire to the role of a new political class.